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High Point
North Carolina.

Public crossings27at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates56%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 27 public at-grade railroad crossings in High Point, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 67% of the total, ahead of Winston-Salem Southbound Railway at 9.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (24) and intercity (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1867%
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway933%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Prospect Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 29 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 is 7. 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

15 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (22%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Scientific Street — 3 reported incidents
  • West Point Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Pendleton 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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