Trivia: UK's Squeakiest Ear Piercing Station

[PeterY]

I was standing on Lewisham station yesterday, enjoying watching trains for several minutes and all of a sudden realised just how ear piercing it is, especially when a 66 came though on a freight. I know all platforms are sharply curved but I did feel for the residents and new residents now that new flats are being built in the area. It must sound worse at night.

There must be other stations where it's noisy when a train passes though.

 

[Eeveevolve]

At a risk of stating the obvious forum whipping boy, any station served by 142s....

 

[northwichcat]

Try being at Navigation Road when a Pacer is going towards Chester, the station may be 300m from Deansgate Junction but a Pacer on the curvy track between Skelton Junction and Deansgate Junction makes a supersonic Jet sounds quiet, so you can hear it coming!

 

[Paul_10]

Carlisle platform 4 is quite bad for squealing trains with the 390's being particularly bad.

I think any station that has got a closed roof and a curve in the track will be quite ear piercing and as someone else say, any station that has got a curve track and pacer trains will be right up there.

 

[asylumxl]

All of these pail in comparison to the deafening squeal in St Pancras International low level...

 

[Lockwood]

I did feel for the [...] new residents now that new flats are being built in the area. It must sound worse at night.

I wouldn't. They'd have gone there, looked at the area, seen the noise potential...

Existing residents who'd been there since year dot? I'll give them some sympathy.

 

[Stampy]

From memory, ANY train going out of Retford's mainline platform onto the line towards Worksop made one HELL of a squeaking noise!!!

 

[Carlisle]

Carlisle platform 4 is quite bad for squealing trains with the 390's being particularly bad.

I think any station that has got a closed roof and a curve in the track will be quite ear piercing and as someone else say, any station that has got a curve track and pacer trains will be right up there.

Pacers are only short so the whining doesn't last nearly as long as a mk4 set departing Newcastle for instance

 

[thenorthern]

Pacers at Carnforth are really really bad there is a corrector rail to stop the squeal when trains run around the corner at the station.

Barnt Green's Cross City Line platforms were so bad Network Rail introduced a sprinkler to make the train quieter.

 

[thealexweb]

Bolton's platform 3 when travelling South?

 

[3141]

It reminds me of the story about a sign outside a beauty parlour:

Ears pierced while you wait

which could probably be applied to the locations identified in this thread.

 

[Lockwood]

And that then leads to "I was sat on the platform, waiting for my train, minding my own business, when along came this nutter with a piercing needle!"

 

[northwichcat]

All of these pail in comparison to the deafening squeal in St Pancras International low level...

Have you been to every station in the UK then?

 

[asylumxl]

Have you been to every station in the UK then?

I've been to a large chunk of them.

The resonance in the St Pancras box is awful. Couple it with the tight curves and it makes for a horrible aural experience.

 

[PHILIPE]

Barry when a Pacer is rounding the Island Curve and Exeter St Davids when Pacer rounding Exeter Central curve and a Pacer between Cardiff Central and Queen St.

 

[Kentish Paul]

I've been to a large chunk of them.

The resonance in the St Pancras box is awful. Couple it with the tight curves and it makes for a horrible aural experience.

Quite agree. The northbound trains entering the box are very loud as are the southbound ones leaving. Didn't they put water sprays on a platform track somewhere to decrease the noise?

 

[WCMLaddict]

Accrington.

You can close the thread ...

 

[theblackwatch]

And there was me thinking this thread was about branches of 'Claires Accessories'!

 

[tsr]

Selhurst Platform 2 can be distinctly noisier than is acceptable when used by newer 377s and occasionally other stock. It seems to roughly depend on the weather and temperature.

 

[1D53]

Accrington.

You can close the thread ...

Agreed.

 

[Gathursty]

Have you been to every station in the UK then?

Carnforth. Haven't stood at Navigation Road to hear something come round the junction so that'll probably also be a contender.

 

[thenorthern]

This thread is slightly unfair to stations in the North of England, South Wales and Bristol as they are the only parts of the United Kingdom with pacers.

 

[theironroad]

Another vote for low level St pancras. I've seen people grimace and or stick fingers in ears. It's painful.

 

[Railsigns]

All of these pail in comparison to the deafening squeal in St Pancras International low level...

Have you been to every station in the UK then?

It's on his bucket list.

 

[Iskra]

Carnforth wins this easily. Trains going on to the Bentham line are the noisiest I've ever heard.

 

[Zamracene749]

Hartlepool is fairly loud, particularly arriving southbound services.

 

[CarltonA]

My vote goes to the Bakerloo Line in several places, around Piccadilly Circus possibly the worst for the "Horrible Howl" as it is known among some users.

 

[asylumxl]

It's on his bucket list.

I'm ill today, that's my excuse. Besides, some people on here have much worse spelling and grammar :P.

 

[PHILIPE]

This thread is slightly unfair to stations in the North of England, South Wales and Bristol as they are the only parts of the United Kingdom with pacers.

No Pacers at Bristol for some years now. For Bristol read Exeter and Devon Metro.

 

[Parallel]

Platform 6/7 at Cardiff Central, particularly when you get two squealy pacers pulling in at the same time. Ouch!