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Crossings / West Virginia / Charleston

Charleston
West Virginia.

Public crossings27at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates81%2 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 27 public at-grade railroad crossings in Charleston, WV, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kanawha River Railroad operates 22 of the crossings here, 81% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (27) and intercity (5).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kanawha River Railroad2281%
CSX Transportation519%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 12 Street on CSX Transportation is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 is 5. 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

22 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (7%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Chesterfield Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Lee Street West — 1 reported incident
  • East Point Dr — 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.

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