Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Kent route (ELR VIR).
| 01:20 | 5Y74 | 🚃 | DOVERP → RAMSGTD | ← from Margate | +1 min |
| 01:39 | 5W01 | 🚃 | RAMSGTD → RAMSGTE | → from Ramsgate E.M.U.D. | active |
On today’s timetable, Ramsgate Station Barrow crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 81 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 13 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: 6.3 min (00:00–00:06, 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 06:17–07:17 in the morning and around 18:36–19:36 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ramsgate Station Barrow is a signal-box-controlled crossing (SBC) on the Margate–Ramsgate E.M.U.D. line (Kent route · ELR VIR). 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 1,029 trains through this crossing.
96.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 69.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±111s (9 in 10 within 354s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.