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.
| 17:02 | 🚆 2W56 | Ramsgate → London Charing Cross Up (NE → SW) | +2 min |
| 17:22 | 🚄 1J53 | Margate → St. Pancras International Up (NE → SW) | cancelled |
| 17:27 | 🚆 2R46 | London Charing Cross → Ramsgate Down (SW → NE) | +4 min |
On today’s timetable, St Stephens crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 35 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 61 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 6.5 min (15:15–15:22, 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 06:44–07:44 in the morning and around 19:22–20:22 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–Minster 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 617 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.