A house near railway track

Asas

There will be about 100 trains passing every day. About 6 trains per hour including 100mph and freight trains (750m long). I know in my head I shouldn't buy it. So I will try really hard to forget it.

mclaren32

I know your pain, we have offered on a house roughly 450m from the proposed HS2 line. It won't be seen and is protected by other houses so hopefully the sound will be disrupted but it is still a risk.

-taff

Used to live in a house that was 100ft from the main train line from Paddington to Swansea and under the flight path of an RAF base.
Didn't notice the noise after a week or two.
Houses in that particular area sold pretty much immediately whenever they came up...still do.

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I looked at a house in Newbury with a rail line 3 houses away and the house rattled when the trains went passed. In the garden it was very distracting.

However I bought near a motorway and I can say that you totally tune out a regular hum whereas an intermittent train was worse cos you were always anticipating it.

As a preference I would much prefer a busy road because once inside you don't hear noise yet with trains you feel the rattle / vibrations,

Lastly location aside I'd be very reluctant to spend nigh on a million on a house with trains .

Lord_Baltimore

Asas wrote: »

There will be about 100 trains passing every day. About 6 trains per hour including 100mph and freight trains (750m long). I know in my head I shouldn't buy it. So I will try really hard to forget it.

:eek: I'd have forgotten about it by now. For nigh on £1m I'd want NO trains, a neon lit fountain and dancing girls welcoming me home every day

jaylee3

boliston wrote: »

Just been looking a site showing at a cool £2million house backing directly onto the west coast main line - by far the busiest line in the UK! :cool:
http://www.themodernhouse.net/sales-list/waldo-road/

That is the ugliest house I have ever seen.

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I'd buy a lesser (country?) house elsewhere and send the children to private schools.

I wouldn't want to waste all that money on a house and send the children to state schools. You'd be denying them so much just for a silly house.

If you can afford both, that's great, if you can't, I'd put the children first every single time.

I agree.

Asas wrote: »

There will be about 100 trains passing every day. About 6 trains per hour including 100mph and freight trains (750m long). I know in my head I shouldn't buy it. So I will try really hard to forget it.

I would have no massive issue with living near a train line if I was renting. I used to live near one when I was a student in London; like 3 bus lengths away from the back door. It wasn't too bad, but sometimes the freight trains would rattle the house. So although I would live near a railway line - renting - I wouldn't BUY a house that near to a railway line.

I have to say also that those houses (IMO) are pretty ugly. But then again I am not a fan of newbuild. I know damn well I wouldn't pay a MILLION for a 4 bed mid terraced, ANYwhere. What is so special about Oxford anyway? I mean it's pretty and all, but there are equally pretty (and more pretty) places in the UK where prices are much better. EG; Shropshire and Staffordshire and Warwickshire; you can buy a mini mansion there for a million or just over!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49173313.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34672755.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-35693865.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54048317.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50760055.html?premiumA=true


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33756133.html?premiumA=true

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51351152.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51822014.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53858063.html?premiumA=true

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52474961.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34723656.html



Loads more here...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Shropshire.html?minPrice=800000&maxPrice=1250000&index=40

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Staffordshire.html?minPrice=800000&maxPrice=1250000&index=50

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E1404&insId=2&minPrice=800000&maxPrice=1250000&googleAnalyticsChannel=buying

There's land and stables and pony paddocks and woodlands and pools and lakes attached and all sorts. A million quid for an over-rated 4 bed terraced newbuild with a railway line at the bottom of the garden? No thanks.

Sorry.

onlyroz

boliston wrote: »

Just been looking a site showing at a cool £2million house backing directly onto the west coast main line - by far the busiest line in the UK! :cool:
http://www.themodernhouse.net/sales-list/waldo-road/

Wow hat house is just hideous. They haven't even plastered the ceilings :eek: