# FRA Safety Data Web Services

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/fra-safety-data-api/  
**Provider:** U.S. Department of Transportation — https://apis.io/providers/us-dot/  
**Base URL:** https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService  
**Documentation:** https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/FRASafetyDataAPIs.aspx

FRA Safety Data Web Services is one of 12 APIs that [U.S. Department of Transportation](https://apis.io/providers/us-dot/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Rail, Safety, Accidents, Grade Crossings, and FRA. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Federal Railroad Administration's rail safety web services, and the only SOAP surface in the department. Two WSDL 1.1 contracts were retrieved live and harvested verbatim on 2026-07-28. The Master Web Service (DatadownloadService.asmx, 30 operations) exposes the Rail Equipment Accident/Incident Report (Form 54), the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report (Form 57), Form 55 and 55a, grade crossing inventory, defect and PHMSA defect data, hazmat shipper data and railroad reference data, each retrievable by railroad or by state, plus per-form schema operations. The Lite API (LiteApiService.asmx, 5 operations) returns casualty, enforcement, summary, ten-year and train accident series by year. Declared a pilot by FRA. Accounts are requested by email to RsisSupport@dot.gov — the Master service and the Lite API require separate requests.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **WSDL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-dot/refs/heads/main/wsdl/us-dot-fra-datadownload-service.wsdl
- **WSDL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-dot/refs/heads/main/wsdl/us-dot-fra-lite-api-service.wsdl
- **Documentation** — https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/FRASafetyDataAPIs.aspx
- **TermsOfService** — https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/Terms.aspx
- **BulkData** — https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx

## Other U.S. Department of Transportation APIs (11)

- [FAA Aeronautic Product Release API (APRA)](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api/)
- [FAA Air Carrier Pilot Records Database (PRD) API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/faa-air-carrier-prd-api/)
- [FAA Safety Assurance System (SAS) API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/faa-safety-assurance-system-api/)
- [FAA Data Catalog (CKAN Action API v3)](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/faa-data-catalog-ckan-api/)
- [DOT Data Hub Open Data API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/dot-data-hub-soda-api/)
- [Bureau of Transportation Statistics Open Data API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/bts-open-data-soda-api/)
- [NHTSA vPIC (Vehicle Product Information Catalog) API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/nhtsa-vpic-api/)
- [NHTSA Safety API (recalls, complaints, safety ratings)](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/nhtsa-safety-api/)
- [FMCSA QCMobile API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/fmcsa-qcmobile-api/)
- [USDOT ITS JPO Operational Data Environment (ODE) REST API](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/its-jpo-ode-rest-api/)
- [U.S. Department of Transportation Airport Status Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/us-dot/us-dot-faa-airport-status-web-service-openapi/)

## Tags

Rail, Safety, Accidents, Grade Crossings, FRA, SOAP

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