Train line near to house i want to buy

nzseries1

FTBFun wrote: »

There is a website called "The Train Line" - its not like anyone is confused by what this represents.

Oh thanks so much for getting that song in my head! :mad:

Choo choo choooooooooooo, make savings with the train line!!!!

NCISROCKS

I used to stay on a main road in Glasgow's West End and there was traffic all night long and I slept fine. Moved to a new flat in a quiet back street and it took me months to get a good nights sleep...it just seemed so eerily quiet. I'd love a full size train set at the bottom of my garden!

hazyjo

DVardysShadow wrote: »

"Train line"? Have people become so detached from their own language that they have to make up a new word because they don't know the word which already exists?

I decided to use the same terminology as the OP. Don't really see the problem with 'train line' - everyone knew what they meant. It's not like they were calling it a bus track or anything. Thought it might've been a bit rude saying 'erm, excuse me, OP, I think you'll find that's not actually the correct terminology".

Of course, some wouldn't think it rude, but each to their own as I say... the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same.

Jx

sirlizzie

Having lived within earshot of the M6 being built..........then moving to and living in a house for 14 years that had the M6 at the bottom of the garden I can honestly say it became background noise! I actually missed it when i left home.
We have had a main railway line at the foot of our present garden for 29 years and though we occassionally feel the rumble usually in wintertime, we just don't notice it, we hear birds, barking dogs and humans far more!

Plus, My O/h gets a close up view of the passing steam trains;)

KateLiana27

I'd be happy to live near a railway line, but would prefer not to be too near a train station (they're a bit of an ASBO magnet, around these parts anyway).

Little tip: check the garden carefully for Japanese knotweed; it can spread along the lines.

geoffky

When i worked on diving ships it would take me a week when i came home to get a goods night sleep due to the quietness..

Pupnik

Modern trains can be very quiet. When I used to often stay at my friend's house when we were kids the trains at the other side of the field used to be really loud with the classic clackety-clack sound, I quite liked the sound but it was noisy. I now live very close to a track which high speed trains use and it is extremely quiet, they make a faint whooshing sound, they aren't travelling very fast because they slow down for the station. It isn't even a case of just getting used to them, from the moment I moved in I barely heard them. If I were you I'd go there at rush hour and watch and listen and see what kinds of trains they are and how fast they are going because it can make a huge difference.

My other half used to live near a port and we'd hear the foghorn at night, now that was loud! (But somehow calming at the same time )

ic

One thing to consider is if the railway line is on top of an embankment or down in a cutting. My grandparents house was just off from a mainline that ran through a cutting - the noise was low and barely noticeable. A friends house was overlooked by a railway on an embankment, so there was absolutely no shielding from the noise and it was far far louder, I jumped every time one went past, but he got used to it.

Humphrey10

Pupnik wrote: »

If I were you I'd go there at rush hour and watch and listen and see what kinds of trains they are and how fast they are going because it can make a huge difference.

All these suggestions about going to visit the place during the day to see how many trains there are won't tell you if freight trains use the line at night. They're noisier than passenger trains.

Btw the 'clackety-clack' noise is caused by a train (any train, doesn't matter how modern) going over jointed rail. Most (I think?) of the railway network is continuously welded rail now, so you probably won't get this noise.