CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ATH).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 11:23 | 🚧 3Z08 | Tonbridge Engineers Siding → Tonbridge Engineers Siding Up (SW → NE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Rye - Ferry Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 29 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 17 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 7.7 min (10:43–10:51, 3 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 10:25–11:25 in the morning and around 16:50–17:50 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Rye - Ferry Road is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Ashford International–Ore line (Kent route · ELR ATH). 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 234 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±421s (9 in 10 within 992s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.