CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BGK).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:54 | π 2S14 | Stratford β Bishops Stortford Down (S β N) | no show |
| 09:56 | π 2H16 | London Liverpool Street β Cambridge North Down (S β N) | +9 min |
| 09:57 | π 2O17 | Broxbourne β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | passed |
| 09:58 | π 1B40 | London Liverpool Street β Stansted Airport Down (S β N) | passed |
| 10:02 | π 2O18 | London Liverpool Street β Broxbourne Down (S β N) | approaching |
| 10:02 | π 1B31 | Stansted Airport β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | approaching |
| 10:03 | π 2H17 | Cambridge North β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | +14 min |
| 10:08 | π 1B29 | Stansted Airport β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | +28 min |
| 10:11 | π 1B33 | Stansted Airport β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | +5 min |
| 10:13 | π 1B42 | London Liverpool Street β Stansted Airport Down (S β N) | on time |
| 10:17 | π 2H18 | London Liverpool Street β Cambridge North Down (S β N) | active |
| 10:20 | π 2H19 | Cambridge North β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | +1 min |
| 10:20 | π 2S19 | Bishops Stortford β Stratford Up (N β S) | +5 min |
| 10:22 | π 1B35 | Stansted Airport β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | active |
| 10:25 | π 2S16 | Stratford β Bishops Stortford Down (S β N) | active |
| 10:27 | π 2O19 | Broxbourne β London Liverpool Street Up (N β S) | active |
| 10:29 | π 1B44 | London Liverpool Street β Stansted Airport Down (S β N) | active |
On todayβs timetable, Windmill Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 14 h 31 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 82 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 30 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: 16.4 min (09:14–09:30, 4 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 07:31β08:31 in the morning and around 17:31β18:31 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Windmill Lane in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, next to the station.
Windmill Lane is a CCTV-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Waltham CrossβBroxbourne 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 1,860 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.