Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR ESK).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:46 | 🚆 2D71 | Lowestoft → Ipswich Up (N → S) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Cromwell Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 29 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 30 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 (05:38–05:40, 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 06:48–07:48 in the morning and around 16:09–17:09 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Cromwell Road is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Halesworth–Oulton Broad South line (Anglia route · ELR ESK). 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 234 trains through this crossing.
97.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±28s (9 in 10 within 118s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.