Crossings / California / Newark
Newark
California.
The federal crossing inventory lists 13 public at-grade railroad crossings in Newark, CA, operated by one railroad. 10 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 13 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (13) and intercity (10).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Central Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 13 is 6. 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
13 of the 13 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Jarvis Avenue — 1 reported incident
- Haley Street — 1 reported incident
- Cedar 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.
Other California cities on the inventory
- Los Angeles 164 crossings
- Fresno 136 crossings
- Stockton 133 crossings
- San Diego 103 crossings
- Oakland 91 crossings
- Vernon 90 crossings
- Sacramento 70 crossings
- Anaheim 69 crossings