Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:06 | 🚛 6A53 | Ipswich Griffin Wharf → Parkeston S.S. Up (N → S) | active |
| 18:10 | 🚄 1Y48 | London Liverpool Street → Ipswich Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 18:12 | 🚛 4M89 | Felixstowe North F.L.T. → Basford Hall Yard Up (N → S) | -10 min |
| 18:15 | 🚄 1P57 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 18:17 | 🚛 6Y03 | Parkeston SS GBRF → Ipswich Griffin Wharf Down (S → N) | sched |
| 18:29 | 🚄 1P50 | London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (S → N) | -2 min |
On today’s timetable, Bentley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 11 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 93 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 5.5 min (06:57–07:03, 4 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 07:54–08:54 in the morning and around 20:57–21:57 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bentley is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Colchester–Ipswich 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 979 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 19s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.