Spellbrook level crossing

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

right now
OPEN
for 23 min
next: 🚆 in 26 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:12–00:35 23m
CLOSED 00:35–00:41 6m
OPEN 00:41–02:12+ 1h+
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:12
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:07 2H72 🚆 LIVST → CAMBDGE ← from Broxbourne on time
00:09 1B47 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Bishops Stortford on time
00:38 2S74 🚆 LIVST → BSHPSFD ← from Broxbourne +1 min
00:41 1B49 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Bishops Stortford active
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger
now 00:12:47 · 268 avg · 4 in window
lx berths down: Q3/5385→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/5387→Q3/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,034 active · 29,994 delays · 1,736 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Spellbrook crossing is predicted to be closed for about 13 h 9 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 95 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 17 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: 3.2 min (00:06–00:09, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:33–07:33 in the morning and around 17:29–18:29 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Spellbrook 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 9 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 ±66s (9 in 10 within 96s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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