Trainline at the bottom of your garden?

ACG

My grandparents live in a house next to a train line.

Theyve been there for about 50 years back when it was the old steam trains (ive heard the story enough times). Ive slept there myself when growing up.

If i sleep there on the odd occasion the train does wake me up but only for a few seconds then i drop back off. If im there for a week or so i get used to it and it doesnt wake me up.

davenport151

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

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.

Don't forget, freight trains can also run out of usual hours. Run late or early and also randomly eg for maintenance such as leaf busters in Autumn. Some just once a week/month.or less often. So won't always show if you just check one day. We are near a local line so fairly quiet but often random trains that don't match the timetable.
My Son is into trains so it tends to rub off on me.

duchy

I lived on the London to Brighton line for years- Took a week to tune the noise out -(long garden - trains running on an embankment level with my upstairs bedroom window). Visitors noticed -we didn't. In fact one very hot Sunday there was a train strike and it seemed uncomfortably quiet LOL

Only problem is once every few years they'll do track maintainance at night and that can disturb you over the few nights they are right outside .....Oh and my neighbours on the other side of the track DID get a carriage in their back garden once (Purley train crash) however the lady at the top of my road got a lorry through her front bay window once -which caused a far bigger mess !!

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

I suppose you need to consider keeping pets if you are going to live near a train track as well, someone on here has already said that their neighbour's dog was obliterated by a Eurostar train. A friend of mine lives in a house across the road from houses who have a train line behind them, so noise is not the issue for him. The line is quite high up so you can see a train flash by between the houses every so often when sat in his living room watching the TV, it was a bit of a distraction for me but I suppose you get used to that if you live there.