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Lubbock
Texas.

Public crossings96at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates36%54 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents13Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 96 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lubbock, TX, operated by 3 railroads. 10 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Plainsman Switching Company operates 39 of the crossings here, 41% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 36.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (96).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Plainsman Switching Company3941%
BNSF Railway Company3638%
Lubbock & Western Railway, LLC2122%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at SS0331 / Southeast Drive on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 96 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 55 mph.

Warning devices

35 of the 96 crossings carry gates and 7 have flashing lights without gates. 54 (56%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • North Quaker Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • East Fourth Street — 2 reported incidents
  • FM0179 — 1 reported incident
  • County Road 2900 — 1 reported incident
  • FM2641 / Regis 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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