Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:45 | 🚄 1K55 | Norwich → Cambridge Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 06:54 | 🚄 1T02 | London Kings Cross → Kings Lynn Down (SW → NE) | +1 min |
| 06:58 | 🚆 2H00 | London Liverpool Street → Ely Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 07:00 | 🚄 1H87 | Ely → London Liverpool Street Up (NE → SW) | active |
| 07:01 | 🚄 1T07 | Kings Lynn → London Kings Cross Up (NE → SW) | +2 min |
| 07:02 | 🚄 1N43 | Stansted Airport → Birmingham New Street Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 07:07 | 🚛 6L46 | Mountsorrel Sdgs → Chesterton Redland Sdg Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 07:07 | 🚆 2K58 | Cambridge → Norwich Down (SW → NE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Waterbeach crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 2 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 111 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 3.1 min (00:03–00:06, 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 06:08–07:08 in the morning and around 20:09–21:09 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Waterbeach is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Chesterton Junction FHH–Ely line (Anglia route · ELR BGK). 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 462 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 94.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.