Reading
Pennsylvania.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 95% of the total, ahead of READING BLUE MOUNTAIN & NORTHERN RAILROAD COMMISSION at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (19).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	18	95%
READING BLUE MOUNTAIN & NORTHERN RAILROAD COMMISSION	1	5%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Third Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 is 0. 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 30 mph.

Warning devices

6 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (58%) 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.

• Kutztown Road — 3 reported incidents
• 11th Street — 3 reported incidents
• Philadelphia Ave — 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.