Crossings / Massachusetts / Sheffield
Sheffield
Massachusetts.
The federal crossing inventory lists 10 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sheffield, MA, operated by one railroad. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
HOUSATONIC RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. operates 10 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (10).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Lime Kiln Rd on HOUSATONIC RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 10 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
10 of the 10 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
No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.
Incident history
Form 57 records 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- School St — 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 Massachusetts cities on the inventory
- Taunton 19 crossings
- Beverly 17 crossings
- Grafton 15 crossings
- Framingham 13 crossings
- Lancaster 12 crossings
- Wilmington 12 crossings
- Barnstable 11 crossings
- Freetown 11 crossings