Spellbrook level crossing

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

predicted
CLOSED
for 5 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚄 in 2 min · on time

Next 30 min

CLOSED 09:20–09:26 5m
OPEN 09:26–09:30 4m
CLOSED 09:30–09:33 3m
OPEN 09:33–09:36 3m
CLOSED 09:36–09:59 → 23m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 09:20
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

09:12 🚆 2S17 Bishops StortfordStratford Up (N → S) -1 min
09:19 🚆 2S10 StratfordBishops Stortford Down (S → N) passed
09:22 🚄 1B29 Stansted AirportLondon Liverpool Street Up (N → S) approaching
09:25 🚄 1B34 London Liverpool StreetStansted Airport Down (S → N) approaching
09:33 🚆 2H17 Cambridge NorthLondon Liverpool Street Up (N → S) +3 min
09:33 🚆 2H14 London Liverpool StreetCambridge North Down (S → N) on time
09:38 🚄 1B31 Stansted AirportLondon Liverpool Street Up (N → S) active
09:42 🚄 1B36 London Liverpool StreetStansted Airport Down (S → N) +2 min
09:45 🚆 2S19 Bishops StortfordStratford Up (N → S) active
09:48 🚄 1H98 London Liverpool StreetCambridge Down (S → N) +2 min
09:50 🚆 2S12 StratfordBishops Stortford Down (S → N) on time
09:52 🚄 1B33 Stansted AirportLondon Liverpool Street Up (N → S) active
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger
now 09:20:54 · 284 avg · 12 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 49,494 active · 28,100 delays · 3,115 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 20 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 103 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 20 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: 12.7 min (09:01–09:14, 5 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 09:01–10:01 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 Harlow Mill FHH–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 2,026 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 108s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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