Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR ESK).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 08:06 | 🚆 2D71 | Lowestoft → Ipswich Up (N → S) | on time |
| 08:17 | 🚆 2D70 | Ipswich → Lowestoft Down (S → N) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Middleton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 5 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (02:44–02:46, 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 06:17–07:17 in the morning and around 15:49–16:49 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Middleton is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Ipswich–Halesworth line (Anglia route · ELR ESK). 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 209 trains through this crossing.
94.3% 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 ±44s (9 in 10 within 82s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.