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Crossings / New Jersey / Dover

Dover
New Jersey.

Public crossings17at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates12%13 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in Dover, NJ, operated by 3 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Dover and Rockaway River Railroad operates 13 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of DELAWARE AND RARITAN RIVER RAILROAD at 2.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (17) and commuter (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Dover and Rockaway River Railroad1376%
DELAWARE AND RARITAN RIVER RAILROAD212%
New Jersey Transit Rail Operations212%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at South Morris Street on New Jersey Transit Rail Operations is credited with 58 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 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 25 mph.

Warning devices

2 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (76%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • South Morris Street — 2 reported incidents

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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