Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:11 | 🚧 8Y71 | Tonbridge Engineers Siding → Tonbridge Engineers Siding Down (NE → SW) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Cuxton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 58 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 (01:40–01:43, 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 06:26–07:26 in the morning and around 17:48–18:48 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Cuxton is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Strood–Halling line (Kent route · ELR PWS2). 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 214 trains through this crossing.
99.5% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 83.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±9s (9 in 10 within 43s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.