Automatic open level crossing with barriers level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR ESK).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
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On today’s timetable, Willow Marsh crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 2 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 30 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: 2.4 min (07:08–07:10, 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 06:18–07:18 in the morning and around 18:46–19:46 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Willow Marsh is a automatic open level crossing with barriers crossing (AOCLB) on the Ipswich–Halesworth line (Anglia route · ELR ESK). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 197 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.