Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Wessex route (ELR RTJ2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:52 | 🚆 2O19 | Gloucester → Southampton Central Up (W → E) | +5 min |
| 08:01 | 🚆 2R26 | Salisbury → Romsey Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 08:08 | 🚆 2S11 | Romsey → Salisbury Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 08:18 | 🚛 6O55 | Westbury Tarmac → Southampton Up Yard Up (W → E) | -4 min |
On today’s timetable, Dean crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 63 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: 5.8 min (06:56–07:02, 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 09:55–10:55 in the morning and around 19:42–20:42 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Dean is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Romsey–Salisbury line (Wessex route · ELR RTJ2). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 597 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 57s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.