Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR CCH).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:19 | 🚆 2W05 | Cambridge → Ipswich Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 07:24 | 🚆 2W04 | Ipswich → Cambridge Up (E → W) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Thurston Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 28 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 46 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: 6.5 min (06:20–06:26, 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 10:00–11:00 in the morning and around 12:20–13:20 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Thurston Station is a signal-box-controlled crossing (SBCMSL) on the Bury St Edmunds–Elmswell line (Anglia route · ELR CCH). 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 559 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±52s (9 in 10 within 191s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.