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.
| 05:03 | 🚆 2T02 | Gillingham (Kent) → Tonbridge Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 05:25 | 🚆 2T05 | Tonbridge → Strood Down (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, East Farleigh crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 1 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 53 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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 (01:23–01:26, 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 06:00–07:00 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 Maidstone West–Up 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 364 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±5s (9 in 10 within 26s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.