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Crossings / North Carolina / Asheville

Asheville
North Carolina.

Public crossings28at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates79%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban1as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 28 public at-grade railroad crossings in Asheville, NC, operated by 3 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BLUE RIDGE SOUTHERN RAILROAD operates 15 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (26) and tourist/other (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BLUE RIDGE SOUTHERN RAILROAD1554%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1139%
CRAGGY MOUNTAIN RAILROAD27%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Old Pisgah Highway on BLUE RIDGE SOUTHERN RAILROAD is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 28 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 25 mph.

Warning devices

22 of the 28 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (21%) 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

1 of the crossings (4%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Hendersonville Road / Biltmore Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Mills Gap Road — 1 reported incident
  • Bruce Road — 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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