CCTV-monitored manual 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 | 🚆 2R14 | London Charing Cross → Ramsgate Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 09:18 | 🚆 2W23 | Ramsgate → Ashford International Up (NE → SW) | passed |
| 09:23 | 🚃 5R23 | Ashford Down Yd Washer Rd → Canterbury West Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 09:27 | 🚄 1J21 | Margate → St. Pancras International Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 09:34 | 🚄 1J16 | St. Pancras International → Margate Down (SW → NE) | +1 min |
| 09:41 | 🚆 2W25 | Canterbury West → Ashford International Up (NE → SW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Chilham Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 33 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 68 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: 6.4 min (06:18–06:25, 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 09:30–10:30 in the morning and around 17:50–18:50 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Chilham Road is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Ashford Down Yd Washer Rd–Canterbury West line (Kent route · ELR ACR). 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 653 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±7s (9 in 10 within 142s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.