Crossings / Virginia / Norfolk
Norfolk
Virginia.
The federal crossing inventory lists 46 public at-grade railroad crossings in Norfolk, VA, operated by 4 railroads. 26 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 72% of the total, ahead of Buckingham Branch Railroad Company at 9.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (43) and intercity (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 33 | 72% |
| Buckingham Branch Railroad Company | 9 | 20% |
| Virginia Port Authority | 3 | 7% |
| Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company | 1 | 2% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Colonial Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 37 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 46 is 4. 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
35 of the 46 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (22%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Barre Street — 2 reported incidents
- Goff Street — 2 reported incidents
- Pritchard St — 1 reported incident
- Llewellyn Avenue — 1 reported incident
- Church 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.
Other Virginia cities on the inventory
- Richmond 64 crossings
- Chesapeake 57 crossings
- Suffolk 47 crossings
- Harrisonburg 43 crossings
- Winchester 41 crossings
- Emporia 36 crossings
- Hopewell 33 crossings
- Portsmouth 26 crossings