CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR NOL).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:21 | 🚃 5D69 | Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D → Lowestoft Down (W → E) | -5 min |
| 06:38 | 🚄 1K61 | Lowestoft → Cambridge Up (E → W) | active |
| 06:52 | 🚆 2J62 | Norwich → Lowestoft Down (W → E) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Oulton Broad North crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 31 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 36 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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 (05:05–05:08, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 20:30–21:30 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Oulton Broad North is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Haddiscoe–Lowestoft line (Anglia route · ELR NOL). 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 421 trains through this crossing.
74.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±14s (9 in 10 within 80s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.