CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Sussex route (ELR STS).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:57 | 🚆 2C13 | Seaford → Brighton Up (SE → NW) | on time |
| 08:12 | 🚆 2C10 | Brighton → Seaford Down (NW → SE) | -1 min |
| 08:28 | 🚆 2C15 | Seaford → Brighton Up (SE → NW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Beach Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 28 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 62 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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: 6.7 min (05:24–05:31, 3 trains), 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 09:39–10:39 in the morning and around 18:54–19:54 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Beach Road is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Lewes–Newhaven Marine Ag Tml DBC line (Sussex route · ELR STS). 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 713 trains through this crossing.
99.3% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±86s (9 in 10 within 840s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.