Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR MAH).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:07 | 🚄 1A19 | Harwich Town → London Liverpool Street Up (E → W) | -1 min |
| 07:14 | 🚃 5F21 | Parkeston CS → Witham Down (W → E) | active |
| 07:15 | 🚆 2A02 | Manningtree → Harwich Town Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 07:18 | 🚆 2A04 | Lowestoft → Harwich International Down (W → E) | -1 min |
| 07:32 | 🚆 2A05 | Harwich Town → Manningtree Up (E → W) | active |
| 07:45 | 🚆 2W06 | Harwich International → Cambridge Up (E → W) | active |
On today’s timetable, Parkeston West crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 35 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 51 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (05:06–05:09, 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 06:50–07:50 in the morning and around 20:54–21:54 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Parkeston West is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Parkeston Sig P21–Parkeston SS GBRF line (Anglia route · ELR MAH). 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 192 trains through this crossing.
98.4% 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 ±14s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.