Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS2).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:49 | 🚆 2T10 | Strood → Paddock Wood Down (W → E) | on time |
| 06:55 | 🚄 1T91 | Maidstone West → St. Pancras International Up (E → W) | active |
| 06:56 | ❓ 0Z48 | Hoo Junction Up Yard → Paddock Wood Keylands Sdgs Down (W → E) | -2 min |
| 07:04 | 🚆 2T11 | Paddock Wood → Strood Up (E → W) | on time |
| 07:19 | 🚆 2T12 | Strood → Paddock Wood Down (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, Aylesford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 54 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 73 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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.
Closures cluster around 06:06–07:06 in the morning and around 18:32–19:32 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 Mill Hall near Ditton, Kent, next to Aylesford station.
Aylesford is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the New Hythe–Allington Hanson Agg line (Kent route · ELR PWS2). 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 180 trains through this crossing.
99.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 38.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±11s (9 in 10 within 42s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.