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Crossings / Virginia / Richmond

Richmond
Virginia.

Public crossings64at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates72%14 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents31Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 64 public at-grade railroad crossings in Richmond, VA, operated by 3 railroads. 26 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 47 of the crossings here, 73% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (64), intercity (21) and shared use transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation4773%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1117%
Buckingham Branch Railroad Company69%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Hungary Road on CSX Transportation is credited with 29 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 64 is 4. 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

46 of the 64 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 14 (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 31 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Hospital Street/7th St N — 11 reported incidents
  • Broad Rock Rd — 6 reported incidents
  • Walmsley Blvd — 3 reported incidents
  • Hungary Road — 3 reported incidents
  • Charles City 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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