White Notley level crossing

Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BRA).

predicted
CLOSED
for 25s

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚆 now · 8 min late

Next 30 min

CLOSED 08:02–08:03 25s
OPEN 08:03–08:21 18m
CLOSED 08:21–08:22 2m
OPEN 08:22–08:40 → 18m
Under the hood
Mon 12 Oct · 08:02
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

08:02 🚆 2F04 Chelmsford → Braintree Down (SE → NW) +8 min
08:22 🚄 1F23 Braintree → London Liverpool Street Up (NW → SE) active
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger
now 08:02:46 · 41 avg · 2 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-11..2026-10-13
fetched 02:08:22
trust 48,913 active · 26,458 delays · 2,596 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, White Notley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 18 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 35 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 1.5 min (01:00–01:01, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:56–07:56 in the morning and around 17:16–18:16 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Station Road in White Notley, Essex, next to the station.

White Notley is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Witham–Braintree line (Anglia route · ELR BRA). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 439 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±388s (9 in 10 within 509s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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