Thatcham level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR BHL).

right now
OPEN
for at least 2h

Next 30 min

OPEN 01:09–03:09+ 2h+
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 01:09
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Trains in window

No trains in the next 30 minutes.
now 01:09:35 · 183 avg · 0 in window
lx berths down: D2/2855→D2/[email protected] · up: D2/2848→D2/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,084 active · 30,121 delays · 1,790 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Thatcham crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 28 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 84 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 13 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: 4.7 min (00:37–00:42, 1 train), measured from this crossing’s protecting signals — the signal can only show a proceed aspect with the barriers proven down, so this is the signalling system’s own record of the barriers, with standard allowances for the lowering sequence and the raise. It can differ from the forecast timeline above — this is what actually happened, not what was predicted.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:36–09:36 in the morning and around 17:49–18:49 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Thatcham is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Reading–Newbury line (Western route · ELR BHL). 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 954 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±46s (9 in 10 within 157s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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