CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ACR).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 05:19 | 🚄 1J05 | Ramsgate → St. Pancras International Up (NE → SW) | active |
| 05:27 | 🚃 5R09 | Ashford Down Sidings → Sandwich Down (SW → NE) | active |
On today’s timetable, St Stephens crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 63 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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: 3.2 min (00:22–00:25, 1 train), 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 06:44–07:44 in the morning and around 19:49–20:49 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
St Stephens is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Ashford Down Sidings–Ramsgate line (Kent route · ELR ACR). 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 598 trains through this crossing.
100.0% 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 ±6s (9 in 10 within 102s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.