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Crossings / Kansas / Lawrence

Lawrence
Kansas.

Public crossings27at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates74%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 27 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lawrence, KS, operated by 2 railroads. 17 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 14 of the crossings here, 52% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (27) and intercity (10).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1452%
BNSF Railway Company1348%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at North 3rd Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 42 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 is 5. 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

20 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 1 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 11th St — 2 reported incidents
  • North 7th Street — 1 reported incident
  • N 1900 — 1 reported incident
  • E 1125 Rd — 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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