Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR LTN1).
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On today’s timetable, Stowmarket Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 3 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 86 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 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: 7.9 min (00:55–01:03, 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 10:07–11:07 in the morning and around 14:53–15:53 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Stowmarket Station is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Stowmarket DGL–Bury St Edmunds line (Anglia route · ELR LTN1). 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 1,070 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±79s (9 in 10 within 178s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.