Barhams level crossing

User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR ESK).

predicted
OPEN
for 56s

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

next: 🚆 in 2 min · 1 min early

Next 30 min

OPEN 07:12–07:13 56s
CLOSED 07:13–07:14 50s
OPEN 07:14–07:18 4m
CLOSED 07:18–07:19 50s
OPEN 07:19–08:04 → 45m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 07:12
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

07:14 🚆 2D69 LowestoftIpswich Up (N → S) -1 min
07:19 🚆 2J67 IpswichNorwich Down (S → N) on time
🚆Passenger
now 07:12:34 · 23 avg · 2 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 49,149 active · 25,042 delays · 3,032 cancelled · 0 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Barhams crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 2 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 1 minute. 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: 2.0 min (07:08–07:10, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:20–07:20 in the morning and around 15:48–16:48 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Barhams is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Ipswich–Halesworth line (Anglia route · ELR ESK). 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 197 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 ±16s (9 in 10 within 508s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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