Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR TWN).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| No trains in the next 30 minutes. |
On today’s timetable, Pork Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 35 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 36 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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.
Closures cluster around 06:41–07:41 in the morning and around 18:04–19:04 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Pork Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Thorpe-le-Soken–Walton-on-the-Naze line (Anglia route · ELR TWN). 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 291 trains through this crossing.
100.0% 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 ±10s (9 in 10 within 243s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.