Automatic open level crossing with barriers level crossing on the North West route (ELR BBB).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 15:06 | 🚆 2J27 | Clitheroe → Rochdale Up (N → S) | on time |
| 15:21 | 🚆 2N59 | Rochdale → Clitheroe Down (S → N) | +5 min |
On today’s timetable, Turton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 33 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 minutes. Freight paths scheduled “as required” — most don’t run on any given day — aren’t counted here; when one does run, the live timeline above shows it.
Longest closure so far today: 3.8 min (08:26–08:30, 1 train), timed from trains actually seen on the signalling wire — the window edges use the same per-type margins as the forecast, since barrier positions aren't in any feed we can read.
Closures cluster around 06:05–07:05 in the morning and around 17:19–18:19 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Turton is a automatic open level crossing with barriers crossing (AOCLB) on the Bolton–Clitheroe line (North West route · ELR BBB). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. Forecasts here combine the working timetable with live train-movement data (and live signalling where the crossing has it), so they reflect actual running including delays and freight — though they can still be wrong when the network is disrupted.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 196 trains through this crossing.
18.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±678s (9 in 10 within 801s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.