Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).
| 01:12 | 3S50 | 🚧 | STWMDGL → STWMDGL | ← from Ely | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Downham Market Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 7 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 45 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: 3.2 min (00:13–00:16, 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 06:47–07:47 in the morning and around 18:53–19:53 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Downham Market Station is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Ely–Kings Lynn CS line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 156 trains through this crossing.
99.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±370s (9 in 10 within 566s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.