Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR FDM).
| 01:25 | 2Y78 | 🚆 | CHRX → CNTBW | ← from Faversham | on time |
On today’s timetable, Chartham Hatch crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 79 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: 1.5 min (00:12–00:13, 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 07:19–08:19 in the morning and around 15:56–16:56 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Chartham Hatch is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Faversham–Dover Priory line (Kent route · ELR FDM). 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 828 trains through this crossing.
99.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±21s (9 in 10 within 157s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.