Tennyson Avenue level crossing

Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).

predicted
OPEN
for 27 min

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

next: 🚄 in 30 min · running

Next 30 min

OPEN 18:15–18:42 27m
CLOSED 18:42–18:45 3m
OPEN 18:45–18:46 → 2m
Under the hood
Thu 08 Oct · 18:15
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

18:09 🚄 1T44 London Kings Cross → Kings Lynn Down (SE → NW) +1 min
18:14 🚄 1T55 Kings Lynn → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) -1 min
18:45 🚄 1T57 Kings Lynn → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) active
🚄Express passenger
now 18:15:28 · 64 avg · 3 in window
live observation: 0 up · 2 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-07..2026-10-09
fetched 02:08:26
trust 33,709 active · 32,069 delays · 2,208 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Tennyson Avenue crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 30 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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 (05:18–05:21, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 18:14–19:14 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Tennyson Avenue is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Down–Kings Lynn line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 84 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±26s (9 in 10 within 53s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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