Chilham Road level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ACR).

right now
OPEN
for 8 min
next: 🚆 in 11 min · on time

Next 30 min

OPEN 01:12–01:20 8m
CLOSED 01:20–01:23 3m
OPEN 01:23–01:46 → 23m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 01:12
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

01:23 2Y78 🚆 CHRX → CNTBW ← from Ashford International on time
🚆Passenger
now 01:12:04 · 114 avg · 1 in window
lx berths down: ZA/EB13→ZA/[email protected] · up: ZA/EB10→ZA/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,086 active · 30,124 delays · 1,796 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Chilham Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 25 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 59 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: 3.2 min (00:10–00:13, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:30–10:30 in the morning and around 19:15–20:15 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Chilham Road is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Ashford International–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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 668 trains through this crossing.

99.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±33s (9 in 10 within 138s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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