Mind the Gates — UK level crossings is an MCP server with 4 tools an agent can call, among them busiest_today, crossing_status, crossings_near. It answers at https://mindthegates.uk/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 6 of 6 times since 12 September 2026; the last check, on 24 October 2026, succeeded.
Live barrier status and closure forecasts for ~1,600 UK level crossings. Public data, no auth.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
busiest_today | The ten UK level crossings with the most predicted road-closed time today. Takes no arguments. Each line gives the rank, crossing name, predicted minutes closed across the whole day, and a status URL ending .md. The ranking is computed from |
crossing_status | Live barrier status, the next-30-minute closure timeline and approaching trains for ONE crossing, as markdown. Forecasts are rebuilt per request from the live train feeds, so the answer changes minute to minute. Informational only — never a Inputs: crossing |
crossings_near | Nearest listed level crossings to a point, closest first. Returns one line per crossing — distance in MILES, then name, type, region and a status URL ending .md. Distance is straight-line (great circle) between the point and the crossing, N Inputs: lat, lon, limit |
list_crossings | Search UK level crossings by name, URL word or region name (substring, case-insensitive). Returns one line per match — name, crossing type, region, and a status URL ending .md that returns that crossing's live markdown status. Reports the t Inputs: query, limit |
Every block below points at https://mindthegates.uk/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing https://mindthegates.uk/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"serverUrl": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}name: Mind the Gates — UK level crossings
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Mind the Gates — UK level crossings
type: streamable-http
url: https://mindthegates.uk/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"httpUrl": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing": {
"url": "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmindthegates.uk%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=mind-the-gates-uk-level-crossing&name=Mind%20the%20Gates%20%E2%80%94%20UK%20level%20crossings
It answered our last check on 24 October 2026 in 131 ms. Over 6 checks since 12 September 2026 it answered 6. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by mindthegates.uk and served from mindthegates.uk, the vendor's own domain: https://mindthegates.uk/mcp.
4, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 23 September 2026: busiest_today, crossing_status, crossings_near, list_crossings.
It answered our last check on 24 October 2026 in 131 ms. Over 6 checks since 12 September 2026 it answered 6.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://mindthegates.uk/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: uk.mindthegates. Endpoint host: mindthegates.uk. ARD identifier: urn:air:uk.mindthegates:mcp:crossings.
First indexed 10 September 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.