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Crossings / Virginia / Hopewell

Hopewell
Virginia.

Public crossings33at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates55%9 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents12Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 33 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hopewell, VA, operated by 2 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 23 of the crossings here, 70% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (33).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation2370%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1030%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ashland Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 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

18 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (27%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 6 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Danville St — 2 reported incidents
  • Winston Churchill — 2 reported incidents
  • Miles Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Fifteenth Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Hopewell 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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