CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:50 | 🚛 4R23 | Colchester Goods Loop → Felixstowe North GBRF Down (SW → NE) | no show |
| 04:53 | 🚃 5A01 | Colchester CS → Harwich Town Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 05:02 | 🚧 3S10 | Stowmarket DGL → Stowmarket DGL Up (NE → SW) | no show |
| 05:13 | 🚛 4M69 | Ipswich S.S. → Basford Hall Yard Up (NE → SW) | sched |
| 05:18 | 🚛 4M64 | Parkeston SS GBRF → Ditton (O'Connor) GBRf Up (NE → SW) | sched |
On today’s timetable, Ardleigh crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 89 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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: 3.2 min (00:10–00:14, 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 06:33–07:33 in the morning and around 17:00–18:00 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ardleigh is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Colchester–Ipswich line (Anglia route · ELR LTN1). 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 955 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 103s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.