Automatic open level crossing with barriers level crossing on the Kent route (ELR ATH).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 16:45 | 🚆 2D46 | Eastbourne → Ashford International Up (SW → NE) | passed |
| 16:48 | 🚆 2D43 | Ashford International → Eastbourne Down (NE → SW) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Winchelsea crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 19 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 32 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: 4.0 min (07:41–07:45, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 20:51–21:51 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Winchelsea is a automatic open level crossing with barriers crossing (AOCLB) on the Rye–Ore line (Kent route · ELR ATH). 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 221 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.