Church Street level crossing

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

predicted
CLOSED
for 15s

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

next: πŸš„ now Β· 1 min early

Next 30 min

CLOSED 07:00–07:01 15s
OPEN 07:01–07:06 5m
CLOSED 07:06–07:08 2m
OPEN 07:08–07:12 5m
CLOSED 07:12–07:14 2m
OPEN 07:14–07:17 3m
CLOSED 07:17–07:19 2m
OPEN 07:19–07:20 1m
CLOSED 07:20–07:23 3m
OPEN 07:23–07:30 7m
CLOSED 07:30–07:31 β†’ 2m
Under the hood
Mon 12 Oct Β· 07:00
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

06:53 πŸš„ 1A03 Harwich International β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) -1 min
06:53 πŸš„ 1N02 London Liverpool Street β†’ Clacton-on-Sea Down (SW β†’ NE) on time
07:00 πŸš„ 1F11 Colchester Town β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) approaching
07:07 πŸš„ 1P05 Norwich β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) -2 min
07:14 πŸš„ 1P04 London Liverpool Street β†’ Norwich Down (SW β†’ NE) +3 min
07:19 πŸš„ 1N11 Clacton-on-Sea β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) +1 min
07:21 πŸš„ 1A06 London Liverpool Street β†’ Harwich Town Down (SW β†’ NE) +2 min
07:23 πŸš„ 1Y05 Ipswich β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) -1 min
07:31 πŸš„ 1N13 Clacton-on-Sea β†’ London Liverpool Street Up (NE β†’ SW) on time
πŸš„Express passenger
now 07:00:52 Β· 205 avg Β· 9 in window
live observation: 1 up Β· 3 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-11..2026-10-13
fetched 02:08:22
trust 48,676 active Β· 24,855 delays Β· 2,499 cancelled Β· 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Church Street crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 129 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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: 3.8 min (06:51–06:54, 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 07:06–08:06 in the morning and around 18:33–19:33 in the evening. 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 Church Street in Kelvedon, Essex.

Church Street is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Witham–Marks Tey 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 1,479 trains through this crossing.

99.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was Β±4s (9 in 10 within 24s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report β†’

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