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.
| 10:02 | 🚄 1P12 | London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 10:08 | 🚄 1P27 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | approaching |
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 (00:05–00:07, 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.
The crossing is on Hales Street near Tivetshall St Margaret, Norfolk.
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 490 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 ±1s (9 in 10 within 11s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.