julianhmltn
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Does anyone else who lives between Point Pleasant Junction and East Putney suffer from Southwest Trains running empty trains to the Wimbledon depo at all hours of the night ?????
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Tetchytyke
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A railway company running trains on a railway line? Whatever next!
swt_passenger
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I see you posted this faintly ridiculous question in "skyscraper city" as well. SWT don't actually run trains at "all hours of the night", the majority run during normal operating hours. Some of the trains (although only a few) are actually in passenger service. There appears to a four hour gap overnight.
Here's the timings for a few days hence over the 24 hour period (the link will eventually go stale):
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sea...17/04/19/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
It's a normal route from Waterloo to Wimbledon depot, and has been going on for many, many years. The railway was first established as a mainline route, and when ownership was transferred to LU the SWT future use was guaranteed.
HarleyDavidson
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Not another NIMBY who's moved in next to a railway/tube line and now complains about the noise.
A bit like moving to Hounslow and complaining about Heathrow.
A bit like moving to Hounslow and complaining about Heathrow.
ilkestonian
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In what way might people suffer?
You can't, I assume, be referring to the reasonably common practice on operational railway lines of actually running trains on them, so I can only imagine you are troubled by them running empty trains.
If you need to travel when the trains are running empty, perhaps a bus or taxi would suffice instead.
julianhmltn
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Yes i live next to a railway 1 I don't mind during the day , it at night as well!
As for those who wrote those sulky comments ! As its not you affected why should you care !!
As for those who wrote those sulky comments ! As its not you affected why should you care !!
GatwickDepress
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The railway is a 24 hour operation. Empty stock needs to get to the depot for cleaning and maintenance, and they will also need to be positioned for the morning rush hour. It's a necessary evil.
A few miles away, Thameslink and Southern run services twenty four hours a day, so in comparison, your situation is pretty lucky!
Deepgreen
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How long have you lived there?
AlterEgo
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With all due respect, this is an enthusiasts' forum, so I don't think many of us would "suffer" from the sound of railway noise. You might get more sympathy on a local message board.
swt_passenger
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I care, because when considered nationally there's a bit of a trend developing of people moaning about normal operations on a railway that is already there.
Now if traffic on this route has suddenly increased dramatically from a historic norm, then that is a slightly different matter - however I don't believe it has at all.
How many of the trains in the list I linked to in my earlier reply actually run outside of normal LU operating hours? Perhaps 2 of them?
Tetchytyke
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I'm not affected by it because I didn't buy a house next to a railway line.
It's amazing how these situations can be so easily avoided.
Hi,
We lived pretty much next to the Great Western mainline in Slough for a year in a house with only "secondary" double glazing.
That had noisy diesel trains running more frequently throughout the night than you'll be getting from the electric ones.
Wasn't much of an issue apart from one week in August 2003 when it was exceptionally hot and engineering works were ongoing overnight!
The trains have to go somewhere and given that they've probably been running for longer than you've been there; I'm not sure what the issue is?
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steamybrian
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There are many members on this forum who live next to a railway with a train service during the night. They do not complain because when they moved there they accepted that the railway was there and trains would run.
Deepgreen
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Not quite true - there are many members who are not enthusiasts (in the broadest sense of the word) and who have as much right to post here as the rest. However, my question still stands - how long has the OP lived there, leading to the follow-on one of why is this an issue now?
julianhmltn
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1year !!!
I was not complaining was asking a question.
Its a relief line to the depot at Wimbledon !!!:
I was not complaining was asking a question.
Its a relief line to the depot at Wimbledon !!!:
HarleyDavidson
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It can be used as a diversion for mainline trains as well as departmental & ECS moves to/from Wimbledon Park depot.
Just be thankful that the flyover over the Windsor lines hasn't been replaced otherwise you'd have even more mainline trains going that way, so you better hope that TfL don't take the line over as they probably would replace it.
Just be thankful that the flyover over the Windsor lines hasn't been replaced otherwise you'd have even more mainline trains going that way, so you better hope that TfL don't take the line over as they probably would replace it.
Sorry, misunderstood "suffer" as a complaint.
It's the obvious route from Clapham Junction to the depots, as they are on the Up (London bound) side of a 4- track railway.
The overlap of the sets of people marked "People who live next to the railway line between East Putney and Point Pleasant" and "People on this forum" is going to be very small on the Venn diagram. Given it is such a short stretch of railway (less than one mile) it is probably just you in that overlap.
Even if it were not just you, I expect other people in that category would accept that they have knowingly chosen to live next to a railway line that was already there, upon which the timetable has not fundamentally changed for over a decade, and thus accept they have no right to complain about "suffering" anything.
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