Manual gate level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:51 | 🚆 2H19 | Cambridge North → London Liverpool Street Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:58 | 🚄 1H98 | London Liverpool Street → Cambridge Down (SE → NW) | no reports |
| 09:59 | 🚄 1K66 | Stansted Airport → Norwich Down (SE → NW) | passed |
| 10:04 | 🚃 5H92 | London Liverpool Street → Cambridge Sidings North Down (SE → NW) | no reports |
| 10:12 | 🚄 1K65 | Norwich → Stansted Airport Up (NW → SE) | approaching |
| 10:27 | 🚆 2H21 | Cambridge North → London Liverpool Street Up (NW → SE) | +2 min |
| 10:27 | 🚆 2H16 | London Liverpool Street → Cambridge North Down (SE → NW) | +9 min |
On today’s timetable, Elsenham - crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 21 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 105 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: 6.2 min (08:34–08:40, 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 09:55–10:55 in the morning and around 20:34–21:34 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is in Elsenham, Essex, next to the station.
Elsenham - is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Bishops Stortford–Audley End line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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 1,029 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 82s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.