Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Sussex route (ELR WJB).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:45 | 🚄 1F53 | Ore → London Victoria (C) Up (E → W) | +1 min |
| 18:04 | 🚆 2D54 | Eastbourne → Ashford International Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 18:13 | 🚄 1U51 | Ore → Brighton Up (E → W) | active |
| 18:18 | 🚄 1U54 | Brighton → Ore Down (W → E) | -1 min |
On today’s timetable, Pevensey Sluice crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 32 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 93 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: 3.9 min (15:38–15:42, 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 07:38–08:38 in the morning and around 19:11–20:11 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Pevensey Sluice is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Normans Bay–Hastings line (Sussex route · ELR WJB). 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 745 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 23s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.