Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR EMP).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:23 | ❓ 0E94 | Doncaster D.C.E Sdgs. → Welwyn G.C. F.D. Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:26 | 🚄 1N47 | Stansted Airport → Birmingham New Street Down (SE → NW) | +5 min |
| 09:27 | ❓ 0L97 | Peterborough North Yd GBRf → Ipswich Down and Up Goods Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:36 | 🚛 4L03 | Doncaster Iport GBRF → Felixstowe South GBRF Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:45 | 🚛 4M54 | Parkeston S.S. → Tunstead Sdgs (FHH) Down (SE → NW) | no show |
| 09:49 | 🚄 1L30 | Birmingham New Street → Stansted Airport Up (NW → SE) | +4 min |
On today’s timetable, Third drove crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 33 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 69 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 3.7 min (08:21–08:24, 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 14:07–15:07 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Third drove is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Ely–March Up Yard GBRF line (Anglia route · ELR EMP). 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 366 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±8s (9 in 10 within 479s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.