Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS1).
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On today’s timetable, Swatlands crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 12 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 65 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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.
Closures cluster around 09:05–10:05 in the morning and around 13:11–14:11 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Swatlands is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Paddock Wood Keylands Sdgs–Paddock Wood line (Kent route · ELR PWS1). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 459 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±76s (9 in 10 within 146s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.