Gissing level crossing

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

predicted
OPEN
for 10 min

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

next: 🚄 in 12 min · on time

Next 30 min

OPEN 17:50–18:00 10m
CLOSED 18:00–18:02 2m
OPEN 18:02–18:08 7m
CLOSED 18:08–18:09 1m
OPEN 18:09–18:23 → 14m
Under the hood
Thu 08 Oct · 17:50
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

17:40 🚄 1P57 Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) +1 min
18:01 🚄 1P44 London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (S → N) approaching
18:09 🚄 1P59 Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) active
🚄Express passenger
now 17:50:05 · 86 avg · 3 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-07..2026-10-09
fetched 02:08:26
trust 33,688 active · 32,058 delays · 2,191 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Gissing crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 31 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 61 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 (00:01–00:03, 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 09:04–10:04 in the morning and around 14:30–15:30 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Gissing is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Stowmarket–Flordon 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 482 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 17s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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