Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR WSA).
| 01:33 | 3J02 | 🚧 | EUSTON → WATFJSJ | ← from Watford Junction | sched |
On today’s timetable, Watford North crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 30 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 36 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.
Closures cluster around 06:18–07:18 in the morning and around 16:18–17:18 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Watford North is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Watford Junction–St. Albans Abbey line (West Coast South route · ELR WSA). 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →