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Kinston
North Carolina.

Public crossings32at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates78%1 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 32 public at-grade railroad crossings in Kinston, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 69% of the total, ahead of KINSTON RAILROAD, LLC at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (32).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2269%
KINSTON RAILROAD, LLC1031%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Caswell Station Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 3 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 is 3. 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

25 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (3%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Bright Street/Tiffany Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Vernon Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • King Street — 1 reported incident
  • Queen Street — 1 reported incident
  • Herritage 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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