Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:51 | 🚄 1A33 | Harwich Town → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | +1 min |
| 09:51 | 🚄 1N16 | London Liverpool Street → Clacton-on-Sea Down (SW → NE) | +7 min |
| 09:53 | 🚛 4M94 | Felixstowe North F.L.T. → Daventry Int RFT Recep FL Up (NE → SW) | +14 min |
| 09:56 | 🚄 1P16 | London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 09:58 | 🚄 1P21 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | passed |
| 10:02 | 🚄 1N31 | Clacton-on-Sea → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 10:02 | 🚄 1F12 | London Liverpool Street → Colchester Town Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 10:08 | 🚛 4H05 | Parkeston S.S. → Upper Holloway Up Gds Loop Up (NE → SW) | no show |
| 10:09 | 🚛 4L89 | Trafford Park F.L.T. → Felixstowe North F.L.T. Down (SW → NE) | -2 min |
| 10:10 | 🚛 4L57 | Daventry Int RFT Recep FL → Felixstowe North F.L.T. Down (SW → NE) | no show |
| 10:10 | 🚛 4L89 | Garston F.L.T. → Felixstowe North F.L.T. Down (SW → NE) | no show |
| 10:15 | 🚄 1F14 | London Liverpool Street → Braintree Down (SW → NE) | +1 min |
| 10:17 | 🚄 1F29 | Colchester Town → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | -1 min |
| 10:20 | 🚄 1P23 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | -2 min |
| 10:22 | 🚄 1P18 | London Liverpool Street → Norwich Down (SW → NE) | active |
| 10:28 | 🚄 1Y12 | London Liverpool Street → Ipswich Down (SW → NE) | active |
| 10:31 | 🚃 5F94 | Ilford EMUD → Colchester CS Down (SW → NE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Ingatestone crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 14 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 114 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 16 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: 11.4 min (09:47–09:58, 5 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 07:16–08:16 in the morning and around 16:10–17:10 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 Station Lane in Ingatestone, Essex, next to the station.
Ingatestone is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Shenfield–Chelmsford line (Anglia route · ELR LTN1). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 1,690 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±25s (9 in 10 within 61s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.