Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ACR).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:18 | 🚄 1J21 | Margate → St. Pancras International Up (E → W) | passed |
| 09:30 | 🚆 2R14 | London Charing Cross → Ramsgate Down (W → E) | +3 min |
| 09:41 | 🚄 1J16 | St. Pancras International → Margate Down (W → E) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Broad Oak crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 71 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 3.1 min (05:57–06:00, 2 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 19:48–20:48 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Broad Oak is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Canterbury West–Ramsgate line (Kent route · ELR ACR). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 598 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 86s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.