Crossings / South Carolina / Charleston
Charleston
South Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 30 public at-grade railroad crossings in Charleston, SC, operated by 6 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 12 of the crossings here, 40% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 8.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (26).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 12 | 40% |
| CSX Transportation | 8 | 27% |
| Palmetto Railways | 7 | 23% |
| ALLIED TERMINALS COMPANY | 1 | 3% |
| Department Of Defense - Navy | 1 | 3% |
| North Charleston Terminal Company | 1 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Virginia Avenue on Palmetto Railways is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 30 is 0. 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 49 mph.
Warning devices
13 of the 30 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (43%) 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
6 of the crossings (20%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.
Incident history
Form 57 records 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Huguenin Steet — 2 reported incidents
- Pittsburgh Avenue — 2 reported incidents
- Taylor Street — 1 reported incident
- Hackerman Street — 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 South Carolina cities on the inventory
- Columbia 82 crossings
- Greenville 55 crossings
- Rock Hill 54 crossings
- Anderson 53 crossings
- Chester 46 crossings
- Mullins 38 crossings
- Orangeburg 38 crossings
- Sumter 38 crossings