Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR EMP).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:54 | 🚛 6L26 | Mountsorrel Sdgs → Chesterton Junction FHH Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 06:56 | 🚄 1R60 | Norwich → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (SE → NW) | +3 min |
| 06:59 | 🚄 1L01 | Nottingham → Norwich Up (NW → SE) | passed |
| 07:02 | 🚆 2E70 | Colchester → Peterborough Down (SE → NW) | approaching |
| 07:03 | 🚛 4M07 | Felixstowe North GBRF → Birch Coppice GBRf Down (SE → NW) | +29 min |
| 07:11 | 🚛 6L01 | Tunstead Sdgs (FHH) → Trowse Yard Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 07:19 | 🚄 1N43 | Stansted Airport → Birmingham New Street Down (SE → NW) | +1 min |
| 07:20 | 🚛 4L43 | Doncaster Iport GBRF → Felixstowe North GBRF Up (NW → SE) | -21 min |
| 07:25 | 🚛 4M32 | SIZEDBC → Mountsorrel Sdgs Down (SE → NW) | -2 min |
| 07:25 | 🚛 6L88 | Dowlow Quarry FLHH → Brandon Down Sidings Up (NW → SE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, North Fen crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 4 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 78 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: 2.3 min (06:57–07:00, 2 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 08:14–09:14 in the morning and around 14:06–15:06 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
North Fen is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Ely–March Up Yard GBRF line (Anglia route · ELR EMP). 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 814 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.