Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:05 | 🚆 2T13 | Paddock Wood → Strood Down (S → N) | on time |
| 07:16 | 🚆 2T10 | Strood → Paddock Wood Up (N → S) | -1 min |
| 07:39 | 🚆 2T15 | Paddock Wood → Strood Down (S → N) | active |
On today’s timetable, Swatlands crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 15 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 1.7 min (05:12–05:14, 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 07:16–08:16 in the morning and around 20:18–21:18 in the evening. 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–Maidstone West 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 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 65s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.