Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:04 | 🚄 1P00 | Ipswich → Norwich Down (S → N) | -1 min |
| 07:08 | 🚄 1P13 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | on time |
| 07:31 | 🚄 1P02 | London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:38 | 🚄 1P15 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | active |
On today’s timetable, Hales Street crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 28 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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 (23:58–00:00, 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 09:05–10:05 in the morning and around 14:31–15:31 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Hales Street is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Stowmarket–Diss 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 484 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 ±134s (9 in 10 within 233s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.