Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR NKL).
| 00:09 | 2A78 | 🚆 | DARTFD → CHRX | → from Plumstead | +5 min |
| 00:23 | 2L80 | 🚆 | CHRX → DARTFD | ← from Greenwich | +4 min |
On today’s timetable, Charlton Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 30 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 96 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 16 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 (00:04–00:08, 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 06:51–07:51 in the morning and around 16:12–17:12 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
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 8 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±56s (9 in 10 within 242s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.