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Crossings / New Jersey / Newark

Newark
New Jersey.

Public crossings43at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates2%29 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents17Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 43 public at-grade railroad crossings in Newark, NJ, operated by 3 railroads. Each carries a single track.

Who runs the track

Consolidated Rail Corporation operates 39 of the crossings here, 91% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 3.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (43).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Consolidated Rail Corporation3991%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company37%
NJ Dept. Of Transportation12%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Hawkins Street on Consolidated Rail Corporation is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 43 is 2. 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 25 mph.

Warning devices

1 of the 43 crossings carry gates and 13 have flashing lights without gates. 29 (67%) 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 17 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Export Street Tyler Street — 3 reported incidents
  • Lockwood Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Delancy Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Frelinghuysen Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Coastwise Street — 2 reported incidents

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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