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.
| 09:33 | ❓ 2J68 | ? → ? Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Gravel Pit crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 5 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: 3.8 min (08:48–08:52, 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 10:34–11:34 in the morning and around 16:04–17:04 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Gravel Pit is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Reedham (Norfolk)–Lowestoft 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 235 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.
Typical timing error was ±10s (9 in 10 within 48s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.