Railroad crossings in Needham, Massachusetts
The federal inventory lists 11 public railroad crossings in Needham, Massachusetts.
Inventory of .
- Public crossings
- 11
- Crossings with identified warning equipment
- 5
- Crossings reported with gates
- 45%
- Highest reported trains per day
- 40
- Reported incidents since 2016
- 0
- Gate share compared with the state
- 12 percentage points lower
Where the crossings are.
Browse the listThe map shows the available locations on this page. Area shading may include crossings outside this group.
Gates are reported at 45% of these crossings.
- Gates545%
- Flashing lights without reported gates00%
- Signs without reported gates or lights00%
- Other or not reported655%
Each crossing appears once, grouped by its reported equipment. Missing fields don't mean the equipment is absent.
Incident counts cover January 2016 through 31 July 2026. They describe reported events, not a measure of crossing safety.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
Compare the reported train traffic.
Crossings are ordered by reported trains per day, from highest to lowest.
- West StreetNeedham546869SGates reported40Trains per day8,570 vehicles per day2019 road count
- Rosemary StreetNeedham546870LGates reported40Trains per day4,511 vehicles per day2019 road count
- May StreetNeedham546871TGates reported40Trains per day4,948 vehicles per day2019 road count
- Great Plains AvenueNeedham546872AGates reported40Trains per day15,001 vehicles per day2019 road count
- Oak StreetNeedham546873GGates reported40Trains per day3,789 vehicles per day2019 road count
- Hersey Station EastNeedham970923YOther or not reported40Trains per dayNo road count has been reported.
- Hersey Station WestNeedham970924FOther or not reported40Trains per dayNo road count has been reported.
- Needham Center EastNeedham970925MOther or not reported40Trains per dayNo road count has been reported.
- Needham Center WestNeedham970926UOther or not reported40Trains per dayNo road count has been reported.
- Gould StreetNeedham546866WOther or not reported0Trains per day8,778 vehicles per day2019 road count
- Webster StreetNeedham546867DOther or not reported0Trains per day5,608 vehicles per day2019 road count
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Read about the data.