Sawbridgeworth level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).

right now
OPEN
for 17 min
next: 🚆 in 20 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:16–00:33 17m
CLOSED 00:33–00:36 3m
OPEN 00:36–00:40 4m
CLOSED 00:40–00:43 3m
OPEN 00:43–02:16+ 1h+
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:16
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:11 1B47 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Bishops Stortford on time
00:36 2S74 🚆 LIVST → BSHPSFD ← from Broxbourne +1 min
00:43 1B49 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Bishops Stortford active
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger
now 00:16:49 · 268 avg · 3 in window
lx berths down: Q3/1103→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1123→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1125→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1131→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1125→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1134→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1136→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1160→Q3/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,036 active · 29,996 delays · 1,739 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Sawbridgeworth crossing is predicted to be closed for about 12 h 27 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 106 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 21 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: 13.7 min (23:59–00:13, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:58–08:58 in the morning and around 20:44–21:44 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Sawbridgeworth is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Broxbourne–Bishops Stortford 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 22 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.

Typical timing error was ±117s (9 in 10 within 340s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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