Trivia: railway lines you can see from your home

[nw1]

Nothing right now, nearest railway perhaps 2 miles away. Too much background noise to ever hear any railway.

When I was much younger I lived some miles from the Portsmouth Direct and when the wind was in the right direction, you could hear trains in the distance. At that stage much of the track was jointed and CIGs and VEPs ruled the roost, so presumably the sound could carry quite some distance.

 

[johnnychips]

Do you get noise issues?

When the windows are shut, you can’t hear a lot. Supertram is noisier as it lies between Park Hill and the station, but I really don’t notice either. When they replaced the nearby triangular Supertram junction at night, we got leaflets apologising in advance, but it didn’t wake me.

 

[Iskra]

When the windows are shut, you can’t hear a lot. Supertram is noisier as it lies between Park Hill and the station, but I really don’t notice either. When they replaced the nearby triangular Supertram junction at night, we got leaflets apologising in advance, but it didn’t wake me.

Thanks, was just interested regarding idling units and the Scarborough noise issues. Glad you have no problems

 

[M&NEJ]

I bought my house because it has an excellent view of the WCML near Lancaster station. I remember moving in in 1985 and hearing a class 40 going up the 1 in 98, the first time I tried to go to sleep there at night.

Bit of an English Electric enthusiast I suppose; I also remember my grandparents' house in St Neots, about a mile away from the ECML. Despite the distance you could hear the Deltics loud and clear, roaring away in the night. Bliss!

 

[Bungle73]

Used to be able to see trains on the Sheerness branch line, that runs close to me, but quite some time ago they built houses and now I can't.

 

[4COR]

Absolutely nothing! The Fairford branch of the GWR when it existed was ~4 miles from where we are. Now it's more like 7 miles to the Cotswold Line.

Where I grew up, the Uckfield Thumpers would make the pictures in the house wander from level and the late night ECS in the summer could be heard for miles into and out of Riddlesdown Tunnel.

 

[satisnek]

My childhood bedroom window looked onto the Portsmouth Direct line, but the vegetation grew up with me!

Where I live now, trains can be heard but not seen, although it's really only the Class 68s which are audible together with the odd whistle on the SVR. It's a similar situation at Mercia Marina, but in this case it's Class 220/221s hammering over Stenson/North Staffordshire junctions.

 

[MoleStation]

I don't live anywhere near a railway now but I can see the trackbed of the Stanhope and Tyne line from the front windows.
With cheap binoculars I could see the trains on Croxdale viaduct on the ECML when I lived near Durham.
When I was about 4 years old the Durham Coast Line was between the back of the house and a coal blackened North Sea. That was at Blackhall. Grim!