Audley End level crossing

Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).

predicted
CLOSED
for 47s

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

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Next 30 min

CLOSED 10:00–10:01 47s
OPEN 10:01–10:09 8m
CLOSED 10:09–10:11 2m
OPEN 10:11–10:29 18m
CLOSED 10:29–10:31 → 2m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct · 10:00
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

10:01 🚄 1P12 London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (SW → NE) approaching
10:11 🚄 1P27 Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) approaching
10:30 🚄 1P14 London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (SW → NE) on time
🚄Express passenger
now 10:00:39 · 87 avg · 3 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active · 31,699 delays · 1,964 cancelled · 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Audley End crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 54 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 60 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: 1.5 min (00:05–00:07, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:03–10:03 in the morning and around 13:56–14:56 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Audley End in Burston, Norfolk.

Audley End is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Stowmarket–Burston line (Anglia route · ELR LTN1). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 490 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 33s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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