Buying Near A Trainline

Marvel1

Prefer a trainline to a school, busy road, pub.

Skiddaw1

I love trains so it doesn't bother me at all. We're close to the West Coast Mainline and as with some other posters, we get steam trains passing through fairly regularly (Northern Belle service- they go up the Settle line and then back on the WCML) especially in the summer.

At previous house we were on one of the Heathrow flight paths and we used to love sitting in the garden of an evening watching the planes coming in to land. In the day, Concorde passed over regularly (both outbound and inbound). I still miss Concorde...

ikcdab

Section62 said:

ikcdab said:

Section62 said:

But for the record, the noisy dirty diesel locomotives will still be running on the UK's railways long after the majority of cars and vans on UK roads are electric, and all the HGV's are compliant with the latest Euro standards for emissions.

Largely not true. All the noisy, dirty diesels are mostly now long gone, just a small handful left for specials.  Virtually all diesels are now the modern, cleaner, quiet type.  

There are over 500 Class 66 diesel locomotives operating in the UK, forming the backbone of freight operations. The last one was delivered in 2016, so realistically they will still be operational into the 2050's at least.

The ending of the Class 66 build programme (for the UK) was primarily due to them only complying with the Euro Stage 3a emissions standard and being incapable of modification to 3b (or better).

I regard the fleet of Class 66 as being "noisy dirty diesel locomotives", likewise the smaller fleets of Class 68 and 70 which also only meet Euro 3a.  You presumably think those are the "modern, cleaner, quiet type" - which demonstrates the point I was making about people's tolerance/perception of noise and pollution being different.

For reference, road vehicles (typically with much shorter service lives) are now manufactured to Euro Stage 6x, with development of the Stage 7 standard underway.

Section62 said:

ikcdab said:

Section62 said:

But for the record, the noisy dirty diesel locomotives will still be running on the UK's railways long after the majority of cars and vans on UK roads are electric, and all the HGV's are compliant with the latest Euro standards for emissions.

Largely not true. All the noisy, dirty diesels are mostly now long gone, just a small handful left for specials.  Virtually all diesels are now the modern, cleaner, quiet type.  

There are over 500 Class 66 diesel locomotives operating in the UK, forming the backbone of freight operations. The last one was delivered in 2016, so realistically they will still be operational into the 2050's at least.

The ending of the Class 66 build programme (for the UK) was primarily due to them only complying with the Euro Stage 3a emissions standard and being incapable of modification to 3b (or better).

I regard the fleet of Class 66 as being "noisy dirty diesel locomotives", likewise the smaller fleets of Class 68 and 70 which also only meet Euro 3a.  You presumably think those are the "modern, cleaner, quiet type" - which demonstrates the point I was making about people's tolerance/perception of noise and pollution being different.

For reference, road vehicles (typically with much shorter service lives) are now manufactured to Euro Stage 6x, with development of the Stage 7 standard underway.

Well yes.  For freight, we get 66s past us as well as the occasional 47 or 37.  The 66s are significantly quieter. 

Slinky

Well the OP raised the question and never came back.