Wootton Broadmead level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR BBM).

predicted
OPEN
for the next 30 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

Next 30 min

OPEN 04:56–05:43 → 47m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 04:56
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

04:48 🚛 6V11 Humberstone RoadW. Drayton Hanson Agg Up (NE → SW) no reports
🚛Freight
now 04:56:34 · 36 avg · 1 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,725 active · 21,572 delays · 2,956 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Wootton Broadmead crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 21 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 34 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:33–08:33 in the morning and around 18:30–19:30 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Wootton Broadmead is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Bletchley–Bedford St.Johns line (West Coast South route · ELR BBM). 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 207 trains through this crossing.

95.2% 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 ±5s (9 in 10 within 34s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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