Crossings / North Carolina / Lexington
Lexington
North Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 19 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lexington, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway operates 15 of the crossings here, 79% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 4.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (19) and intercity (3).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Winston-Salem Southbound Railway | 15 | 79% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 4 | 21% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Prospect Drive on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 31 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 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 79 mph.
Warning devices
16 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (16%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Fifteenth Avenue — 3 reported incidents
- Seventh Avenue — 2 reported incidents
- Prospect Drive — 1 reported incident
- Arnold Road — 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.
Other North Carolina cities on the inventory
- Charlotte 140 crossings
- Fayetteville 95 crossings
- Greensboro 62 crossings
- Goldsboro 56 crossings
- Lumberton 52 crossings
- Wilmington 47 crossings
- Durham 46 crossings
- Gastonia 45 crossings