CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:16 | 🚧 8Y71 | Tonbridge Engineers Siding → Tonbridge Engineers Siding Up (E → W) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Aylesford Village crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 48 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 59 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 3.2 min (01:29–01:32, 1 train), 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.
Closures cluster around 06:04–07:04 in the morning and around 17:32–18:32 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Aylesford Village is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Maidstone West–Allington A.R.C Reverse 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 421 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 83.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±4s (9 in 10 within 57s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.