Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Wessex route (ELR RTJ2).
| 01:08 | 4M77 | 🚛 | SOTDWGB → DONNGBF | ← from Romsey | no show |
| 01:21 | 4O31 | 🚛 | LEEDFLT → SOTOMCT | → from Salisbury | -2 min |
| 01:40 | 4O66 | 🚛 | KNGSBCE → SOTOEWS | → from Salisbury | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Dean crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 66 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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 (00:04–00:07, 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 09:55–10:55 in the morning and around 19:49–20:49 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 282 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±59s (9 in 10 within 310s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.