Railway Line near house

[Vron]

Hi All,
I am interested in a house for sale but its quite close to a railway line - how do I find out how busy the line is i.e is it a goods line or inter city 125 job?
Thanks

[eliot]

By telling us where it is?

[robinhood21]

Follow the line until you come to a station. The station should have a timetable explaining times, etc. Or, enquire at the ticket office.

[JQ]

If they're local trains dont worry about it. I grew up in a house (spent 18yrs there) with a train line at the end of the garden (40 metres) with trains every 15 mins. I can't say I ever noticed them - you just get used to it. However, they did not operate at night, so that might be different.

[MitchT]

I can find out how "freight-heavy" is is if you let me know where it is. Freight is what you have to worry about as there tends to be more running overnight when the line is clear of passenger trains.

[Vron]

Heres the link - the road is Gate House Lane, the house has been built in the rear garden of the house opposite the bus stop symbol

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=navclient&a...

Edited by Vron on Sunday 27th September 21:16

[DocJock]

Hmmm, I once bought a house 60M from a 'quiet' railway line.

It was great apart from 2 things....

1. the freight trains used to literally make the house shake, including the 05.00 one
2. the unit which used to come round regularly to tamp down the sleepers overnight which was impossible to sleep through due to the vibration and 20gazillion watt lamps they used.

[eliot]

I would of thought that the elephant is in the room is the fuggin' great runway next to your house...

[Vron]

The airport doesn't bother me I am not that far from there now.

[Mandat]

I'd be more concerned with flights taking off and landing from the local airport.

[N Dentressangle]

It's this line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster_to_Lincoln_...

Don't see why it should be incredibly busy, or any reason why it would be in the future. Best thing would be to ask at one of the stations, or maybe contact Network Rail?

[davidjpowell]

Timetables will not help. This is the line out to Skegness, via Gainsborough and Lincoln. Trains not very often and only one single dmu carriage, so not too bad.

I have seen some goods trains, but they are also few and far between, and tend not to be massive. Probably less intensive, but more intrusive than the airport. I suspect after a while you would filter out the noise anyway.

We are about 7 miles down the line in Haxey, and get caught by the crossing once every blue moon.

[Vron]

davidjpowell said:

Timetables will not help. This is the line out to Skegness, via Gainsborough and Lincoln. Trains not very often and only one single dmu carriage, so not too bad.

I have seen some goods trains, but they are also few and far between, and tend not to be massive. Probably less intensive, but more intrusive than the airport. I suspect after a while you would filter out the noise anyway.

We are about 7 miles down the line in Haxey, and get caught by the crossing once every blue moon.

Thanks David.

The house has been on the market since May 08 so I fear there may be more to it than just the railway line & airport anyway!

[Simpo Two]

I live about 150 yards from a railway cutting and it gets some quite heavy freight - but since they welded the line some years ago the house doesn't bounce up and down any more! As they say above, you get used to it and eventually it's almost reassuring to hear something trundling past. Not a problem.

[Pothole]

robinhood21 said:

Follow the line until you come to a station. The station should have a timetable explaining times, etc. Or, enquire at the ticket office.

made me chuckle

[davidjpowell]

Vron said:

davidjpowell said:

Timetables will not help. This is the line out to Skegness, via Gainsborough and Lincoln. Trains not very often and only one single dmu carriage, so not too bad.

I have seen some goods trains, but they are also few and far between, and tend not to be massive. Probably less intensive, but more intrusive than the airport. I suspect after a while you would filter out the noise anyway.

We are about 7 miles down the line in Haxey, and get caught by the crossing once every blue moon.

Thanks David.

The house has been on the market since May 08 so I fear there may be more to it than just the railway line & airport anyway!

I would not let that concern you too much. Houses, despite what the press are saying recently are still not selling well. The ones that do sell in my experience are the ones that come to market recently. Once they have been on the market for 6 monnths they will stick for ever. Any house that came to market at that time, would have been very difficult to sell.

There are a few things, other than price that will stop a sale. If there is an issue with legals or survey most vendors will sort it even if it means taking a hit, as sooner or later it must be addressed.

[robinhood21]

Pothole said:

robinhood21 said:

Follow the line until you come to a station. The station should have a timetable explaining times, etc. Or, enquire at the ticket office.

made me chuckle

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[Distant]

We've got a railway main line at the bottom of the garden, around 50 feet away and although we do notice the heavy trains from time to time, they've never been that much of a problem. It's no different to having loud cars driving down the road or noisy neighbours or whatever, no where will be perfect and the trains honestly don't bother us any more.

Never lived near an airport though...

[davidjpowell]

We used to live in Bawtry, under the flight path for this airport.

Generally not too much of a problem, although it was a pain when they started doing circuits. This property is not on the flight path, and given the level of activity at Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood (I kid you not - they could not decide where the airport was, obviously) I don't reckon it will be a huge issue for some time to come.

[rlw]

You could always buy the house and live in it for a fortnight before starting a campaign to have the track closed down due to noise and disruption of your amenity.