Crossings / West Virginia / Charles Town
Charles Town
West Virginia.
The federal crossing inventory lists 13 public at-grade railroad crossings in Charles Town, WV, operated by 2 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 9 of the crossings here, 69% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 4.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (13).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 9 | 69% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 4 | 31% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at 16th Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 13 is 1. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.
The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 60 mph.
Warning devices
8 of the 13 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (15%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.
Horns and quiet zones
No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.
Incident history
Form 57 records 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- N Lawrence St — 1 reported incident
What this page is not
This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.
To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.
Other West Virginia cities on the inventory
- Huntington 36 crossings
- Charleston 27 crossings
- Burnsville 26 crossings
- Martinsburg 26 crossings
- Wayne 21 crossings
- Rupert 19 crossings
- New Martinsville 18 crossings
- St Albans 18 crossings