CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR VIR).
| 00:11 | 1F74 | 🚄 | STPANCI → FAVRSHM | ← from Gillingham (Kent) | on time |
| 00:15 | 1S70 | 🚄 | VICTRIE → FAVRSHM | ← from Gillingham (Kent) | +8 min |
| 00:41 | 1F76 | 🚄 | STPANCI → FAVRSHM | ← from Gillingham (Kent) | on time |
| 00:46 | 1K72 | 🚄 | VICTRIE → RAMSGTE | ← from Gillingham (Kent) | -3 min |
On today’s timetable, Rainham crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 9 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 106 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 17 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: 7.5 min (00:08–00:15, 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 06:21–07:21 in the morning and around 19:39–20:39 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Rainham is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Gillingham (Kent)–Sittingbourne line (Kent route · ELR VIR). 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 1,018 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±39s (9 in 10 within 113s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.