Bottisham Road level crossing

Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).

predicted
OPEN
for 3 min

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

next: πŸš„ in 4 min Β· 3 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 10:01–10:03 3m
CLOSED 10:03–10:06 2m
OPEN 10:06–10:13 8m
CLOSED 10:13–10:15 2m
OPEN 10:15–10:26 12m
CLOSED 10:26–10:28 2m
OPEN 10:28–10:32 β†’ 4m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct Β· 10:01
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

09:55 πŸš„ 1T19 Ely β†’ London Kings Cross Up (N β†’ S) no show
10:05 πŸš„ 1L30 Birmingham New Street β†’ Stansted Airport Up (N β†’ S) +3 min
10:05 πŸš„ 1T14 London Kings Cross β†’ Kings Lynn Down (S β†’ N) approaching
10:14 πŸš„ 1N49 Stansted Airport β†’ Birmingham New Street Down (S β†’ N) +9 min
10:27 πŸš„ 1T21 Kings Lynn β†’ London Kings Cross Up (N β†’ S) +2 min
πŸš„Express passenger
now 10:01:13 Β· 187 avg Β· 5 in window
live observation: 1 up Β· 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active Β· 31,699 delays Β· 1,968 cancelled Β· 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Bottisham Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 12 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 101 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: 5.6 min (07:15–07:20, 3 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:37–07:37 in the morning and around 19:26–20:26 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 Bannold Road in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.

Bottisham Road is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Chesterton Junction FHH–Ely line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). 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 818 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Full accuracy report β†’

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