The_Train
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Fair point - I apologise.
I stick by my point, however - if someone moves next door to a railway and knows full well that it is a busy line and they don't like a lot of noise, they shouldn't move there and won't get sympathy from me if they do moan.
-Peter
I live next to the WCML, in fact I'm sat on my sofa right now and the boundary fence is no more than 20 metres away. I (and others in the apartment block) accept the noise because we knew it was there when we came to the viewing. The boundary fence and the decent windows do a decent job of keeping some of the sound out but it's still very much audible but no complaints (barring one - see below) from me. In fact I find it harder to sleep on Saturday nights now because of the lack of train noise.
The only time I genuinely feel that NR got it wrong was around 6 weeks ago when they came to remove a tree that was on NR property but very much growing onto our car park. This meant chainsaws and wood cutting machines in operation between midnight and 3am. Even the deepest of sleepers would have struggled to sleep during it and I felt it to be unfair to deprive people of sleep for such a period of time when it could easily have been planned to be done during a Xmas or Bank Holiday shutdown (or even on any Sunday and closing the fast lines for a few hours).
As for the actual point of this thread, I have to say that I've never heard anything more than a 2 tone horn during the night (and I always assume this to be because of members of the orange army being on or near the tracks). There is certainly a difference between the use of horns in the day and then at night, that is clear to see (well hear). Regarding the point of drivers acknowledging the signal, the only time I've seen anything like this is some Pendo drivers giving a toot when they are given the RA signal by platform staff