Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR SOB2).
| 01:20 | 4E45 | 🚛 | FLXSSEW → NORMPW | ← from Cambridge Reception Sdgs | no show |
On today’s timetable, Mill Drove crossing is predicted to be closed for about 43 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 17 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 (00:57–00:58, 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.
Closures cluster around 10:24–11:24 in the morning and around 15:52–16:52 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Mill Drove is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Cambridge Reception Sdgs–Ely line (Anglia route · ELR SOB2). 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 148 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±58s (9 in 10 within 220s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.