CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR HXS3).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:03 | 🚆 2G04 | Southport → Liverpool Central (Northern) Up (NW → SE) | passed |
| 07:05 | 🚆 2S03 | Liverpool Central (Northern) → Southport Down (SE → NW) | passed |
| 07:19 | 🚆 2G05 | Southport → Liverpool Central (Northern) Up (NW → SE) | approaching |
| 07:20 | 🚆 2S04 | Liverpool Central (Northern) → Southport Down (SE → NW) | approaching |
| 07:33 | 🚆 2G06 | Southport → Liverpool Central (Northern) Up (NW → SE) | on time |
| 07:34 | 🚧 3S07 | Wigan Diesel Depot TC → Wigan Diesel Depot TC Down (SE → NW) | +9 min |
| 07:35 | 🚆 2S05 | Liverpool Central (Northern) → Southport Down (SE → NW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Waterloo crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 23 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 68 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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: 6.5 min (06:15–06:21, 2 trains), 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 06:07–07:07 in the morning and around 18:53–19:53 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Waterloo is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Sandhills–Southport C.H.S. line (North West route · ELR HXS3). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 953 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 14s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.