Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
| 00:14 | 1F80 | 🚄 | LIVST → CLCHSTR | ← from Shenfield | on time |
| 00:24 | 6L81 | 🚛 | AVONHFH → PRKSTNY | ← from Shenfield | no show |
| 00:37 | 6L82 | 🚛 | AVONHFH → PRKSTNY | ← from Shenfield | no show |
On today’s timetable, Ingatestone crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 91 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 19 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: 3.2 min (00:10–00:13, 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 06:14–07:14 in the morning and around 18:13–19:13 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ingatestone is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Shenfield–Chelmsford Recp. 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 17 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±162s (9 in 10 within 506s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.