Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ATH).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:46 | 🚆 2D47 | Ashford International → Eastbourne Down (NE → SW) | +1 min |
| 17:51 | 🚆 2D50 | Eastbourne → Ashford International Up (SW → NE) | +2 min |
On today’s timetable, East Guldeford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 9 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 1.5 min (23:59–00:00, 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 16:47–17:47 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
East Guldeford is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Ashford International–Ore line (Kent route · ELR ATH). 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 103 trains through this crossing.
97.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.