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Crossings / California / Oceanside

Oceanside
California.

Public crossings13at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates100%0 with no active device
Under a whistle ban5as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents14Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 13 public at-grade railroad crossings in Oceanside, CA, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

North County Transportation Distrcit- Sprinter operates 10 of the crossings here, 77% of the total, ahead of North County Transportation District- Coaster at 3.

Train services crossing these streets: shared use transit (10), freight (5), intercity (5) and commuter (5).

RailroadCrossingsShare
North County Transportation Distrcit- Sprinter1077%
North County Transportation District- Coaster323%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at State Tree Dr on North County Transportation Distrcit- Sprinter is credited with 70 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 13 is 70. 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 90 mph.

Warning devices

13 of the 13 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

5 of the crossings (38%) 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 14 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 9 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Surfrider Wy — 4 reported incidents
  • Cassidy St — 3 reported incidents
  • Mission Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • College Bl — 2 reported incidents
  • Wisconsin Av — 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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