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Crossings / Texas / Garland

Garland
Texas.

Public crossings46at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates85%4 with no active device
Under a whistle ban19as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 46 public at-grade railroad crossings in Garland, TX, operated by 3 railroads. 11 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kansas City Southern Railway Company operates 25 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of Dallas Area Rapid Transit at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (35), shared use transit (8) and transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kansas City Southern Railway Company2554%
Dallas Area Rapid Transit1226%
Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad920%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at East Centerville Road on Dallas Area Rapid Transit is credited with 150 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 65 mph.

Warning devices

39 of the 46 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (9%) 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

19 of the crossings (41%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • West Kingsley Road — 3 reported incidents
  • Main Street — 2 reported incidents
  • East Buckingham Road — 1 reported incident
  • Crist Road — 1 reported incident
  • North First 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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