Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:56 | 🚃 5P18 | Ipswich → Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 05:16 | 🚄 1P01 | Norwich → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Palgrave crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 58 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 61 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 (00:49–00:51, 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 08:57–09:57 in the morning and around 14:03–15:03 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Palgrave is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Stowmarket–Diss Recp. line (Anglia route · ELR LTN1). 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 489 trains through this crossing.
99.8% 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 ±113s (9 in 10 within 236s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.