Church House Farm level crossing

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

predicted
OPEN
for 52s

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

next: 🚆 in 2 min · running

Next 30 min

OPEN 10:00–10:01 52s
CLOSED 10:01–10:02 50s
OPEN 10:02–10:42 → 40m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct · 10:00
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

10:02 🚆 2T10 Marks Tey → Sudbury Down (N → S) active
🚆Passenger
now 10:00:59 · 39 avg · 1 in window
live observation: 1 up · 0 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active · 31,699 delays · 1,966 cancelled · 9 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Church House Farm 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: 0.6 min (05:43–05:44, 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 08:03–09:03 in the morning and around 16:44–17:44 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is near Aldham, Essex.

Church House Farm is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Witham–Sudbury line (Anglia route · ELR SUD). 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 139 trains through this crossing.

93.5% 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 ±5s (9 in 10 within 54s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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