Crossings / South Carolina / North Charleston
North Charleston
South Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 34 public at-grade railroad crossings in North Charleston, SC, operated by 3 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 25 of the crossings here, 74% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 7.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (34) and intercity (3).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 25 | 74% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 7 | 21% |
| Palmetto Railways | 2 | 6% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Ashley Phosphate Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 34 is 0. 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
23 of the 34 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (29%) 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
5 of the crossings (15%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.
Incident history
Form 57 records 20 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 6 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Remount Road — 5 reported incidents
- E Montague Avenue — 3 reported incidents
- Ashley Phosphate Road — 3 reported incidents
- Dorchester Road — 2 reported incidents
- Discher Street — 2 reported incidents
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 South Carolina cities on the inventory
- Columbia 82 crossings
- Greenville 55 crossings
- Rock Hill 54 crossings
- Anderson 53 crossings
- Chester 46 crossings
- Mullins 38 crossings
- Orangeburg 38 crossings
- Sumter 38 crossings