Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR BME2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:05 | 🚆 2W81 | Ramsgate → Ashford International Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 18:22 | 🚆 2R48 | London Charing Cross → Ramsgate Down (S → N) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Deal crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 38 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 38 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (01:10–01:13, 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 07:20–08:20 in the morning and around 15:19–16:19 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Deal is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Canterbury East–Ramsgate line (Kent route · ELR BME2). 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 338 trains through this crossing.
98.5% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±42s (9 in 10 within 71s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.