Windmill Lane level crossing

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

right now
CLOSED
for 2 min
next: 🚆 in 2 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

CLOSED 00:15–00:18 2m
OPEN 00:18–00:20 2m
CLOSED 00:20–00:23 3m
OPEN 00:23–00:51 → 28m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:15
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:09 2O24 🚆 LIVST → HERTFDE ← from Waltham Cross -1 min
00:13 3Q99 🚧 BROXGBF → FRMPRSG → from Broxbourne +2 min
00:17 2S74 🚆 LIVST → BSHPSFD ← from Waltham Cross approaching
00:23 1B47 🚄 STANAIR → LIVST → from Broxbourne on time
00:30 3S20 🚧 BROXGBF → BROXGBF → from Broxbourne no show
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚧Engineering
now 00:15:48 · 389 avg · 5 in window
lx berths down: Q3/1041→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1047→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1053→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1059→Q3/[email protected] · down: Q3/1393→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1056→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1060→Q3/[email protected] · up: Q3/1394→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, Windmill Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 14 h 55 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 66 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 58 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: 12.3 min (00:03–00:15, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:58–08:58 in the morning and around 18:12–19:12 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Windmill Lane is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Waltham Cross–Broxbourne 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 1,528 trains through this crossing.

99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±57s (9 in 10 within 265s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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