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Crossings / North Carolina / Gastonia

Gastonia
North Carolina.

Public crossings45at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates33%23 with no active device
Under a whistle ban1as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents17Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 45 public at-grade railroad crossings in Gastonia, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 9 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 34 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of CHARLOTTE WESTERN RAILROAD, LLC at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45) and intercity (9).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company3476%
CHARLOTTE WESTERN RAILROAD, LLC1124%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Cox Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 15 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 45 is 1. 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

15 of the 45 crossings carry gates and 7 have flashing lights without gates. 23 (51%) 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

1 of the crossings (2%) 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 17 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Church Street — 4 reported incidents
  • Cox Road — 3 reported incidents
  • Hancock Street — 2 reported incidents
  • May Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Jenkins Dairy Rd — 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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