Strumpshaw Fen (RSPB) level crossing

User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR NOL).

predicted
OPEN
for 21 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚆 in 22 min · running

Next 30 min

OPEN 04:56–05:17 21m
CLOSED 05:17–05:18 50s
OPEN 05:18–05:28 → 11m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 04:56
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

04:49 🚃 5J59 Norwich Jubilee SidingsLowestoft Down (NW → SE) -2 min
05:18 🚆 2C00 NorwichGreat Yarmouth Down (NW → SE) active
🚆Passenger 🚃Empty stock
now 04:56:40 · 52 avg · 2 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,725 active · 21,573 delays · 2,956 cancelled · 0 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Strumpshaw Fen (RSPB) crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 20 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 39 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: 0.6 min (00:05–00:05, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:06–07:06 in the morning and around 14:34–15:34 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Strumpshaw Fen (RSPB) is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D–Reedham (Norfolk) line (Anglia route · ELR NOL). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 509 trains through this crossing.

76.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 20s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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