Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR FEL).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 03:11 | 🚛 4M69 | Felixstowe North F.L.T. → Trafford Park F.L.T. Up (S → N) | sched |
| 03:21 | 🚛 4M18 | Felixstowe North GBRF → Trafford Park Euro Tml GBF Up (S → N) | sched |
| 03:39 | 🚛 4L10 | Belmont Down Yard → Felixstowe North EWS Down (N → S) | no show |
| 03:39 | 🚛 4L19 | Northampton Gateway DBC → Felixstowe North EWS Down (N → S) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Thorpe Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 37 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (00:29–00:32, 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 08:34–09:34 in the morning and around 20:10–21:10 in the evening. 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 245 trains through this crossing.
95.5% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±52s (9 in 10 within 966s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.