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Crossings / California / Ventura

Ventura
California.

Public crossings12at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates100%0 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 12 public at-grade railroad crossings in Ventura, CA, operated by 3 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 5 of the crossings here, 42% of the total, ahead of Southern California Regional Rail Authority at 4.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (9), intercity (5), commuter (4) and tourist/other (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company542%
Southern California Regional Rail Authority433%
SIERRA NORTHERN RAILWAY325%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Santa Barbara Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 14 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 12 is 6. 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 55 mph.

Warning devices

12 of the 12 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • South California Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Olive Street — 1 reported incident
  • Figueroa 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.

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