Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Sussex route (ELR TBH2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:47 | 🚄 1C44 | London Victoria (C) → Portsmouth Harbour Down (E → W) | passed |
| 18:00 | 🚄 1C55 | Portsmouth & Southsea → Horsham Up (W → E) | +1 min |
| 18:02 | 🚄 1N48 | Brighton → Southampton Central Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 18:09 | 🚄 1N50 | Brighton → Southampton Central Down (E → W) | active |
| 18:15 | 🚄 1S55 | Portsmouth & Southsea → Brighton Up (W → E) | cancelled |
| 18:18 | 🚄 1N49 | Southampton Central → Brighton Up (W → E) | +10 min |
On today’s timetable, Drift Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 42 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 112 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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: 6.1 min (08:12–08:18, 3 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 08:47–09:47 in the morning and around 13:28–14:28 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Drift Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Chichester–Havant line (Sussex route · ELR TBH2). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 1,101 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.