Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR WHC1).
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On today’s timetable, Great Plumstead crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 19 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 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: 3.0 min (00:01–00:04, 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 06:24–07:24 in the morning and around 20:40–21:40 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Great Plumstead is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D–Sheringham line (Anglia route · ELR WHC1). 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 575 trains through this crossing.
63.7% 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 ±125s (9 in 10 within 182s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.