Suffolk
Virginia.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 29 of the crossings here, 62% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (47) and intercity (11).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	29	62%
CSX Transportation	10	21%
Commonwealth Railway, Incorporated	8	17%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Washington Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 26 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 47 is 2. 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

35 of the 47 crossings carry gates and 9 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (6%) 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

3 of the crossings (6%) 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 17 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Liberty Street — 4 reported incidents
• Washington Street — 4 reported incidents
• Saratoga Street — 3 reported incidents
• Capitol Street — 2 reported incidents
• Suburban Dr — 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.