CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:12 | 🚄 1H87 | Ely → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | no show |
| 07:16 | 🚄 1T94 | London Kings Cross → Kings Lynn Down (S → N) | passed |
| 07:22 | 🚆 2H02 | London Liverpool Street → Ely Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:31 | 🚄 1T09 | Kings Lynn → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | on time |
| 07:32 | 🚛 6P06 | Tilbury2 Container Tml FL → Trowse Yard Down (S → N) | no show |
| 07:41 | 🚆 2H13 | Ely → London Liverpool Street Up (N → S) | active |
| 07:47 | 🚄 1T06 | London Kings Cross → Kings Lynn Down (S → N) | on time |
| 07:47 | 🚄 1K59 | Lowestoft → Cambridge Up (N → S) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Chesterton Junction crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 59 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 114 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 14 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: 6.6 min (05:14–05:21, 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 09:13–10:13 in the morning and around 16:14–17:14 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Chesterton Junction is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Cambridge Reception Sdgs–Ely line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 644 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 94.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±20s (9 in 10 within 32s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.