Crossings / Virginia
Virginia
crossings.
Cities4410+ crossings each
Public crossings905at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates63%228 with no active device
Reported incidents140Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 905 public at-grade crossings across the 44 Virginia cities with at least ten of them. Richmond has the most at 64.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates the most of them at 493, ahead of CSX Transportation at 247.
25% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 63% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Virginia city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | Richmond City | 64 | 72% | 0 | 31 |
| Chesapeake | Chesapeake | 57 | 79% | 0 | 5 |
| Suffolk | Suffolk | 47 | 74% | 3 | 17 |
| Norfolk | Norfolk | 46 | 76% | 0 | 12 |
| Harrisonburg | Harrisonburg | 43 | 70% | 0 | 2 |
| Winchester | Frederick | 41 | 49% | 0 | 0 |
| Emporia | Greensville | 36 | 50% | 6 | 7 |
| Hopewell | Hopewell | 33 | 55% | 0 | 12 |
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | 26 | 65% | 0 | 2 |
| Danville | Danville | 25 | 56% | 0 | 6 |
| Newport News | Newport News | 24 | 71% | 0 | 4 |
| Keysville | Charlotte | 23 | 30% | 0 | 0 |
| Roanoke | Roanoke (City) | 22 | 68% | 18 | 4 |
| Salem | Salem | 21 | 71% | 12 | 5 |
| Franklin | Franklin | 20 | 45% | 0 | 3 |
| Lynchburg | Lynchburg | 20 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| Manassas | Manassas | 18 | 94% | 10 | 6 |
| Charlottesville | Charlottesville | 16 | 94% | 10 | 1 |
| Petersburg | Petersburg | 16 | 63% | 0 | 1 |
| Big Stone Gap | Wise | 15 | 87% | 0 | 0 |
| Elkton | Rockingham | 15 | 67% | 0 | 2 |
| Fredericksburg | Stafford | 15 | 47% | 0 | 2 |
| Strasburg | Shenandoah | 15 | 20% | 0 | 1 |
| Buchanan | Botetourt | 14 | 100% | 5 | 0 |
| Norton | Norton | 14 | 29% | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol | Bristol | 13 | 38% | 0 | 2 |
| Dillwyn | Buckingham | 13 | 54% | 0 | 0 |
| Hampton | Hampton | 13 | 23% | 0 | 1 |
| Pennington Gap | Lee | 13 | 62% | 0 | 1 |
| Woodstock | Shenandoah | 13 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Chase City | Mecklenburg | 12 | 25% | 0 | 0 |
| Front Royal | Warren | 12 | 42% | 0 | 2 |
| Honaker | Russell | 12 | 75% | 0 | 0 |
| Luray | Page | 12 | 100% | 0 | 1 |
| Orange | Orange | 12 | 83% | 0 | 0 |
| Clarksville | Mecklenburg | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Remington | Fauquier | 11 | 100% | 0 | 1 |
| The Plains | Fauquier | 11 | 100% | 0 | 4 |
| Wise | Wise | 11 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Alexandria | Alexandria | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ashland | Hanover | 10 | 100% | 5 | 5 |
| Mineral | Louisa | 10 | 70% | 0 | 0 |
| Richlands | Tazewell | 10 | 60% | 0 | 0 |
| Rustburg | Campbell | 10 | 100% | 0 | 0 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.