Wharf Road level crossing

Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).

right now
OPEN
for 3 min
next: 🚆 in 4 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:15–00:18 3m
CLOSED 00:18–00:21 3m
OPEN 00:21–00:52 → 30m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:15
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:10 3Q99 🚧 BROXGBF → FRMPRSG → from Hertford East +2 min
00:14 2O24 🚆 LIVST → HERTFDE ← from Cheshunt -1 min
00:20 2S74 🚆 LIVST → BSHPSFD ← from Cheshunt approaching
00:21 1B47 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Hertford East on time
00:36 3S20 🚧 BROXGBF → BROXGBF → from Hertford East no show
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚧Engineering
now 00:15:59 · 332 avg · 5 in window
lx berths down: Q3/1059→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, Wharf Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 11 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 188 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 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: 1.5 min (00:12–00:14, 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 08:22–09:22 in the morning and around 16:41–17:41 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Wharf Road is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Cheshunt–Hertford East 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 14 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 ±95s (9 in 10 within 116s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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