Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Wessex route (ELR RSJ).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 11:06 | 🚄 1V44 | Gatwick Airport → Reading Down (E → W) | passed |
| 11:16 | 🚄 1O65 | Reading → Gatwick Airport Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 11:34 | 🚄 1V45 | Gatwick Airport → Reading Down (E → W) | +2 min |
On today’s timetable, Brook crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 64 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 3.4 min (07:59–08:02, 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 09:33–10:33 in the morning and around 20:33–21:33 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Brook is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Reigate–Haslemere line (Wessex route · ELR RSJ). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 435 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 141s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.