Crossings / North Carolina / Sanford
Sanford
North Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 25 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sanford, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Atlantic & Western Railway, L.P. operates 18 of the crossings here, 72% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 7.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (9), intercity (7) and shared use transit (5).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic & Western Railway, L.P. | 18 | 72% |
| CSX Transportation | 7 | 28% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Chisholm Street on CSX Transportation is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 25 is 1. 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 60 mph.
Warning devices
13 of the 25 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (36%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Chisholm Street — 1 reported incident
- McIver Street — 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 North Carolina cities on the inventory
- Charlotte 140 crossings
- Fayetteville 95 crossings
- Greensboro 62 crossings
- Goldsboro 56 crossings
- Lumberton 52 crossings
- Wilmington 47 crossings
- Durham 46 crossings
- Gastonia 45 crossings