Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR NKL).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:54 | 🚆 2P23 | London Cannon Street → London Cannon Street Down (SW → NE) | +5 min |
| 09:56 | 🚃 5E65 | London Cannon Street → Slade Green T&R.S.M.D Down (SW → NE) | +3 min |
| 09:57 | 🚧 3S76 | Tonbridge Engineers Siding → Tonbridge Engineers Siding Up (NE → SW) | -108 min |
| 09:58 | 🚆 2L21 | London Cannon Street → Dartford Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 09:59 | 🚆 2T69 | London Cannon Street → London Cannon Street Up (NE → SW) | passed |
| 10:03 | 🚆 2A21 | Dartford → London Cannon Street Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 10:07 | 🚆 9P17 | Luton → Rainham (Kent) Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 10:09 | 🚆 9P18 | Rainham (Kent) → Luton Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 10:15 | 🚃 5E63 | London Cannon Street → Slade Green T&R.S.M.D Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 10:19 | 🚆 2P25 | London Cannon Street → London Cannon Street Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 10:19 | 🚆 2T71 | London Cannon Street → London Cannon Street Up (NE → SW) | -1 min |
| 10:24 | 🚃 5E17 | London Cannon Street → Slade Green T&R.S.M.D Down (SW → NE) | active |
| 10:28 | 🚆 2L23 | London Cannon Street → Dartford Down (SW → NE) | active |
| 10:33 | 🚆 2A23 | Dartford → London Cannon Street Up (NE → SW) | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Charlton Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 57 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 121 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 12 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: 27.7 min (09:31–09:59, 13 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 09:10–10:10 in the morning and around 15:54–16:54 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Charlton Lane in Charlton Riverside, London.
Charlton Lane is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Greenwich–Plumstead line (Kent route · ELR NKL). 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 1,700 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 15s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.