Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR ETN).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:31 | 🚄 1L01 | Nottingham → Norwich Down (NW → SE) | +6 min |
| 07:38 | 🚆 2K58 | Cambridge → Norwich Down (NW → SE) | approaching |
| 07:55 | 🚛 6L01 | Tunstead Sdgs (FHH) → Trowse Yard Down (NW → SE) | no show |
| 08:04 | 🚄 1K61 | Lowestoft → Cambridge Up (SE → NW) | -1 min |
On today’s timetable, Santon crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 36 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 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.
Longest closure so far today: 1.5 min (06:12–06:14, 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 08:25–09:25 in the morning and around 18:09–19:09 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Santon is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Brandon Signal EN8084–Thetford line (Anglia route · ELR ETN). 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 348 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.