Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR EMP).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:33 | 🚛 6L46 | Mountsorrel Sdgs → Chesterton Redland Sdg Up (NW → SE) | on time |
| 06:34 | 🚛 4E14 | Felixstowe South GBRF → Doncaster Iport GBRF Down (SE → NW) | passed |
| 06:36 | 🚛 4L83 | Leeds F.L.T. → Felixstowe North F.L.T. Up (NW → SE) | passed |
| 06:47 | 🚛 6L53 | Tunstead Sdgs (FHH) → Parkeston S.S. Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 06:52 | 🚛 4M07 | Felixstowe North GBRF → Birch Coppice GBRf Down (SE → NW) | +18 min |
| 06:53 | 🚛 6L26 | Mountsorrel Sdgs → Chesterton Junction FHH Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 06:55 | 🚄 1R60 | Norwich → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (SE → NW) | +1 min |
| 06:57 | 🚄 1L01 | Nottingham → Norwich Up (NW → SE) | +1 min |
| 07:05 | 🚆 2E70 | Colchester → Peterborough Down (SE → NW) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Black Bank crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 5 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 79 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (00:38–00:39, 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 07:44–08:44 in the morning and around 14:06–15:06 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Black Bank is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Ely–March Up Yard GBRF line (Anglia route · ELR EMP). 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 814 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.