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Crossings / New York / Hamburg

Hamburg
New York.

Public crossings22at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates64%0 with no active device
Under a whistle ban9as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 22 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hamburg, NY, operated by 4 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BUFFALO SOUTHERN RAILROAD, INC. operates 10 of the crossings here, 45% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (22), tourist/other (10), intercity (5) and shared use transit (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BUFFALO SOUTHERN RAILROAD, INC.1045%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company523%
CSX Transportation523%
Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Incorporated29%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Pleasant Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 22 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

14 of the 22 crossings carry gates and 8 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

9 of the crossings (41%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Bayview Road — 1 reported incident
  • Cloverbank Road — 1 reported incident
  • Pleasant Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Cloverbank 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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