Chester
South Carolina.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 19 of the crossings here, 41% of the total, ahead of Lancaster & Chester Railway Company at 15.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	19	41%
Lancaster & Chester Railway Company	15	33%
CSX Transportation	12	26%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Beltline Road And Ecology Lane on Lancaster & Chester Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 46 is 3. 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

29 of the 46 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 15 (33%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Hinton St — 2 reported incidents
• Cedarhurst Road — 1 reported incident
• Lancaster Street — 1 reported incident
• Holmes Road — 1 reported incident
• Ecology Lane — 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.