Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR CCH).
| 02:02 | 4E55 | 🚛 | FLXSNFL → STHBFLT | → from Elmswell | -11 min |
| 02:10 | 4L10 | 🚛 | DONCBDY → FLXSNEW | ← from Bury St Edmunds | no show |
| 02:12 | 4E11 | 🚛 | FLXSNGB → MBROGBR | → from Elmswell | approaching |
| 02:28 | 4L61 | 🚛 | GRSTNFT → FLXSNFL | ← from Bury St Edmunds | no show |
On today’s timetable, Thurston Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 23 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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: 7.2 min (01:13–01:20, 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 10:05–11:05 in the morning and around 14:40–15:40 in the afternoon. 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 594 trains through this crossing.
97.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±54s (9 in 10 within 246s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.