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.
| 07:08 | 🚄 1R62 | Norwich → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Up (NE → SW) | +2 min |
| 07:11 | 🚆 2K56 | Cambridge → Norwich Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 07:43 | 🚄 1K61 | Lowestoft → Cambridge Up (NE → SW) | -1 min |
On today’s timetable, Spronces crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 56 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (05:49–05:50, 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 07:53–08:53 in the morning and around 14:42–15:42 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Spronces is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Thetford–Spooner Row 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 452 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±17s (9 in 10 within 174s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.