diff --git a/src/client/components/Timeline.tsx b/src/client/components/Timeline.tsx
index 4ab5c5b..17e1345 100644
--- a/src/client/components/Timeline.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/Timeline.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useLayoutEffect, useRef } from "react";
+import { Fragment, useLayoutEffect, useRef } from "react";
 import { useGameMeta } from "../state/gameMeta.tsx";
 import { DAY } from "../../shared/time.ts";
 import type { RowEvent } from "./EventRow.tsx";
@@ -350,6 +350,8 @@ export function Timeline({
           <div className="space-y-7 pb-10 pt-9">
             {lanes.map((lane) => {
               const heading = lane.game === null ? null : gameMeta(lane.game);
+              // Where this lane stops running and starts being scheduled.
+              const breakAt = splitAt(lane.rows);
               return (
                 <div key={lane.id}>
                   {/* On its own line and pinned to the left edge, so the lane
@@ -368,7 +370,7 @@ export function Timeline({
                   )}
 
                   <div className="relative space-y-2">
-                    {lane.rows.map(({ event, clock }) => {
+                    {lane.rows.map(({ event, clock }, i) => {
                       const game = gameMeta(event.game);
                       const unknownEnd = clock.endsMs === null;
                       const notStarted = clock.upcoming;
@@ -382,8 +384,9 @@ export function Timeline({
                       const width = Math.max(right - left, MIN_BAR);
                       const done = isDone(event.id);
                       return (
+                        <Fragment key={event.id}>
+                        {i === breakAt && <NotStarted />}
                         <button
-                          key={event.id}
                           type="button"
                           onClick={() => onOpen(event.id)}
                           // The game is in the tooltip on the merged board
@@ -458,6 +461,7 @@ export function Timeline({
                             style={{ background: URGENCY_COLOR[clock.urgency] }}
                           />
                         </button>
+                        </Fragment>
                       );
                     })}
                   </div>
@@ -538,6 +542,48 @@ function StackControl({
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * The line between what is running and what is only scheduled.
+ *
+ * The same object as a lane's name — a small label pinned to the left edge so
+ * it survives any scroll position — because it is doing the same job: saying
+ * what the bars under it are. A dashed edge and a thinner wash tell a reader
+ * that *this* bar has not started; they do not tell them where the running
+ * ones stopped, and a board read at a glance should not need the difference
+ * decoded per bar.
+ *
+ * In muted ink rather than a game's hue, since a hue on this board means "whose
+ * event is this" and this label is not about a game.
+ */
+function NotStarted() {
+  return (
+    <p
+      className="eyebrow sticky left-0 z-20 w-fit bg-ground pb-0.5 pr-2 pt-2 text-[0.625rem] text-faint"
+      style={{ paddingLeft: PIN }}
+    >
+      Not started yet
+    </p>
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The index of the first row that has not started, or -1 when none has.
+ *
+ * A single index rather than a per-row test, because the label marks a
+ * *boundary* and there is only one: every sort this board can be given puts
+ * live rows before upcoming ones — `endingSoonestFirst` on the merged board,
+ * and both list modes in the lanes, which say so explicitly. If that ever
+ * stopped holding, the honest repair is to fix the order rather than to scatter
+ * the label wherever the sequence flips.
+ *
+ * Exported so the guarantee is a test rather than a comment.
+ */
+export function splitAt(
+  rows: readonly { clock: { upcoming: boolean } }[],
+): number {
+  return rows.findIndex((r) => r.clock.upcoming);
+}
+
 /**
  * One step of the scale control.
  *
diff --git a/test/views.test.tsx b/test/views.test.tsx
index 38e90ea..227f833 100644
--- a/test/views.test.tsx
+++ b/test/views.test.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { NextUp } from "../src/client/components/NextUp.tsx";
 import {
   boardWindow,
   markerLabel,
+  splitAt,
   startMarkers,
   Timeline,
 } from "../src/client/components/Timeline.tsx";
@@ -305,14 +306,14 @@ describe("Timeline: events that have not started", () => {
     upcoming("Long Way Round", "wuwa", 30 * 24),
   ];
 
-  const board = (showUpcoming: boolean, all = rows) =>
+  const board = (showUpcoming: boolean, all = rows, group: "game" | "ending" = "ending") =>
     render(
       <Timeline
         rows={all}
         now={NOW}
         dayWidth={32}
         onZoom={() => {}}
-        group="ending"
+        group={group}
         onGroup={() => {}}
         showUpcoming={showUpcoming}
         onOpen={() => {}}
@@ -363,6 +364,51 @@ describe("Timeline: events that have not started", () => {
   test("start markers are absent while the events are held back", () => {
     expect(board(false)).not.toContain("2 start");
   });
+
+  test("a heading marks where the running bars stop", () => {
+    // The dashed edge says "this bar has not started"; it does not say where
+    // the running ones ended, which is what a board read at a glance needs.
+    const html = board(true);
+    const at = html.indexOf("Not started yet");
+    expect(at).toBeGreaterThan(html.indexOf("Closing Ceremony"));
+    expect(at).toBeLessThan(html.indexOf("Frost Parade"));
+  });
+
+  test("every lane gets its own, since every lane has its own boundary", () => {
+    // Stacked by game, "where does this game stop running?" is a different
+    // answer per lane — one heading for the board would be in the wrong place
+    // for all but one of them.
+    const html = board(true, rows, "game");
+    expect(html.split("Not started yet")).toHaveLength(4);
+  });
+
+  test("no heading where nothing is waiting", () => {
+    // A label with nothing under it is a section that does not exist.
+    expect(board(true, [row("Closing Ceremony", "genshin", 100)])).not.toContain(
+      "Not started yet",
+    );
+    expect(board(false)).not.toContain("Not started yet");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("splitAt", () => {
+  const live = { clock: { upcoming: false } };
+  const soon = { clock: { upcoming: true } };
+
+  test("finds the boundary", () => {
+    expect(splitAt([live, live, soon, soon])).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  test("a lane that is all future breaks at the top", () => {
+    // Not a divider then but a heading, which is the honest reading: nothing
+    // in this lane has started.
+    expect(splitAt([soon, soon])).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test("nothing waiting is no boundary at all", () => {
+    expect(splitAt([live, live])).toBe(-1);
+    expect(splitAt([])).toBe(-1);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("startMarkers", () => {