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Lexington
North Carolina.

Public crossings19at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates84%3 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 19 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lexington, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Winston-Salem Southbound Railway operates 15 of the crossings here, 79% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 4.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (19) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway1579%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company421%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Prospect Drive on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 31 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

16 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (16%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Fifteenth Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • Seventh Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Prospect Drive — 1 reported incident
  • Arnold 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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