Dock Lane level crossing

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

predicted
OPEN
for 14 min

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

next: 🚆 in 15 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 07:02–07:16 14m
CLOSED 07:16–07:17 50s
OPEN 07:17–07:42 → 25m
Under the hood
Mon 12 Oct · 07:02
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

07:17 🚆 2D67 Lowestoft → Ipswich Up (NE → SW) +1 min
🚆Passenger
now 07:02:38 · 34 avg · 1 in window
live observation: 0 up · 2 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-11..2026-10-13
fetched 02:08:22
trust 48,687 active · 24,904 delays · 2,504 cancelled · 0 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Dock Lane 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 (03:13–03:14, 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 06:17–07:17 in the morning and around 15:21–16:21 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 on Dock Lane in Melton, Suffolk.

Dock Lane is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Ipswich–Sizewell TCA line (Anglia route · ELR ESK). 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 120 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Full accuracy report →

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