flat crossing

crossing of two rail tracks without grade separation and without possibility to switch between straight passing and turning to the other track
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flat crossing

Summary

flat crossing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flat crossing's image is recorded as Diamond crossing at Walpole, May 2017.JPG[2].
  • flat crossing's subclass of is recorded as crossing[3].
  • flat crossing's subclass of is recorded as at-grade intersection[4].
  • flat crossing's subclass of is recorded as switches and crossings[5].
  • flat crossing's part of is recorded as rail track[6].
  • flat crossing's Commons category is recorded as Diamond crossings[7].
  • flat crossing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/094r8s[8].
  • flat crossing's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as railway=railway_crossing[9].
  • flat crossing's different from is recorded as crossover[10].
  • flat crossing's different from is recorded as double crossing railway switch[11].
  • flat crossing's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1q6jyz0jj[12].
  • flat crossing's schematic is recorded as A Track Track Crossings.png[13].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for flat crossing include Greater Grand Crossing[14], a community area in Chicago[15], in United States[16].

Why It Matters

flat crossing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Entities named for it include Greater Grand Crossing[14], a community area in Chicago[15], in United States[16].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_flat-crossing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{flat crossing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/flat-crossing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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