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Gaffney
South Carolina.

Public crossings20at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates70%5 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents12Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 20 public at-grade railroad crossings in Gaffney, SC, operated by one railroad. 12 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 20 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (20) and intercity (18).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Robinson Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 14 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 20 is 14. 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

14 of the 20 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (25%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Rutledge Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • Hamrick Street — 3 reported incidents
  • Sixth Street — 1 reported incident
  • Third Street — 1 reported incident
  • Limestone 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.

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