Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS2).
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On today’s timetable, Maidstone West Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 5 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 47 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.
Closures cluster around 06:56–07:56 in the morning and around 17:35–18:35 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Maidstone West Station is a signal-box-controlled crossing (SBC) on the Paddock Wood Keylands Sdgs–Allington Hanson Agg line (Kent route · ELR PWS2). 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 252 trains through this crossing.
99.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±37s (9 in 10 within 117s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.