Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:05 | 🚆 2T50 | Strood → Paddock Wood Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 17:28 | 🚆 2T53 | Tonbridge → Strood Down (W → E) | on time |
| 17:35 | 🚆 2T52 | Strood → Paddock Wood Down (W → E) | on time |
On today’s timetable, East Farleigh crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 47 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 66 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: 6.7 min (08:16–08:23, 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 09:22–10:22 in the morning and around 17:25–18:25 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
East Farleigh is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Paddock Wood Keylands Sdgs–Maidstone West line (Kent route · ELR PWS1). 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 219 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 87.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.