Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Kent route (ELR PWS1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 05:06 | 🚆 2T02 | Gillingham (Kent) → Tonbridge Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 05:20 | 🚆 2T05 | Tonbridge → Strood Up (NE → SW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Wateringbury crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 51 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 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: 5.2 min (03:48–03:53, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 20:26–21:26 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Wateringbury is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Paddock Wood Keylands Sdgs–Headcorn line (Kent route · ELR PWS1). 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 365 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 78.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±31s (9 in 10 within 186s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.