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.
| 17:47 | 🚆 2K89 | Norwich → Cambridge Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 18:09 | 🚄 1R84 | Norwich → Sheffield Up (NE → SW) | +1 min |
| 18:10 | 🚄 1K90 | Cambridge → Norwich Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Spronces crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 27 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 59 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: 3.2 min (17:07–17:10, 2 trains), 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 13:17–14:17 in the middle of the day. 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 345 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 ±7s (9 in 10 within 32s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.