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Crossings / Texas / Galveston

Galveston
Texas.

Public crossings19at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates32%10 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents1Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 19 public at-grade railroad crossings in Galveston, TX, operated by 5 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 6 of the crossings here, 32% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (18).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company632%
BNSF Railway Company526%
GALVESTON RWY, LP526%
TEXAS RAILWAY EXCHANGE, LLC211%
Texas, Gonzales & Northern Railway Company15%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Port Industrial Road on GALVESTON RWY, LP is credited with 18 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 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 35 mph.

Warning devices

6 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (53%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 33rd 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.

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