Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
| 01:25 | 1F82 | 🚄 | LIVST → CLCHSTR | ← from Witham | approaching |
| 01:27 | 6V84 | 🚛 | IPSWGWF → STKGFHH | → from Marks Tey | active |
| 01:43 | 1F84 | 🚄 | LIVST → CLCHSTR | ← from Witham | +3 min |
On today’s timetable, Church Street crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 47 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 127 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: 3.6 min (00:07–00:10, 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.
Closures cluster around 07:29–08:29 in the morning and around 16:46–17:46 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 11 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±103s (9 in 10 within 416s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.