Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR FEL).
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On today’s timetable, Thorpe Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 19 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: 6.1 min (00:40–00:46, 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.
Closures cluster around 08:59–09:59 in the morning and around 12:29–13:29 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Thorpe Lane is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Down–Felixstowe North EWS line (Anglia route · ELR FEL). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →