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.
| 10:12 | 🚆 2T22 | Strood → Paddock Wood Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 10:18 | ❓ 0Y21 | Hoo Junction Up Yard → Tonbridge West Yard GBRf Down (SW → NE) | sched |
| 10:25 | 🚛 6Y93 | Purley Foster Yeoman → Cliffe Brett Marine Up (NE → SW) | no show |
| 10:25 | 🚧 3Q52 | Slade Green T&R.S.M.D → Tonbridge West Yard GBRf Down (SW → NE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Wateringbury crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 45 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 53 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: 9.7 min (07:04–07:13, 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 07:07–08:07 in the morning and around 20:43–21:43 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Bow Hill in Nettlestead, Kent, next to Wateringbury station.
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 336 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 71.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±8s (9 in 10 within 49s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.