Trainline at the bottom of your garden?

ValHaller

I think 'trainlines' are more commonly known as railways?

lee111s

It's still a trainline Mr. Pedantic.

Dan-Dan

ValHaller wrote: »

I think 'trainlines' are more commonly known as railways?

hello drvshadow

TDPIX

We live opposite a train line... and the station is only 200m down the road. So we have loud cargo trains going straight through, and also frequent passenger trains with loud brakes being deployed to stop at the station.

We got used to it very quickly and it definitely doesn't keep us awake. We used to live in a flat outside a busy road (in a busy residential area), and so this current location is very quiet in comparison..

It might put some people off buying your house in the future though, so consider it from a price perspective.

But for us, it's not a big deal at all.

Eve1975

I rent a flat with a train line right behind. When I first moved in the train woke me up at 4.30am every morning so I started wearing ear plugs. But over time the ear plugs were no longer needed and the trains are no longer heard. Even in the summer with the windows open I do not wake now. The only time it has been noisy was one night (out of 4 years) when they must have been doing maintanance work. I woke in the early hours to my bedroom being lit up and an awful droning noise. Thought aliens had landed :-) Apart from that not been a problem. Find the sound quite soothing of trains going past..

My sister lives on a main road in London and the noise from that I found loads more disturbing than the trains.

dotdash79

We have just moved into a house with the Leeds Bradford line running at the bottom of the garden.

We have a 50 foot garden and the trains run down an embankment, we hardly notice them now and even when we was viewing the house we could barely hear them.

Further down the road the trainline sits above peoples gardens, I wouldn't have bought one of them.

One has just past now and it sounded like a car, and was gone in under 10 seconds.

Tiglath

I've lived for years with trains going past the bottom of the garden (8 an hour, between 5am and 1am). I don't notice them now unless I'm out in the garden talking, and then we just break off for a few seconds to let them go past.

abankerbutnotafatcat

Must admit that my inner train-geek self just spent several intrigued moments on that website, very interesting, just wish I understood it a bit better.

We live 200m from two train lines, one on either side. Neither appears from that to have trains between midnight and 6 but I know that isn't true for one of the lines (Brighton Line/Gatwick Trains) so I must have been doing something wrong.

Dan-Dan

after taking all the advice on board on here and the website warehouse helped me with , my thoughts arent really that altered , for the right price , i think its easily doable BUT will take our sweet time making that judgment , if the house goes in the meanwhile , then we move on!

Brazuca

I lived near a train track in London. I hated it!

I was always trying to lie do myself that I would get used to it yet. But not a chance.
Going on holiday was always a relief.
I couldn't hear the train with the windows closed (they had really nice double glazing)., but as soon as I opened the door, it was a nightmare to watch television, or speak on the phone etc.
I had a balcony, but couldn't enjoy it much.
Thank God that the flat was a rented one.

When you try to sell the flat later, the potential buyer will have the same thoughts. And your flat will be in better condition than all of them so it attracts a buyer. Always when someone will be in between 2 flats, the train track will be bad factor on your flat always - so you either have to give a discount or something else.