Anyone live beside the railway.

[Basher]

Often wondered about staying at the sidings but I would like to sleep out side on the viewing area wrapped up in a sleeping bag but wondering if it has to be vacated at a certain time.

You will not get much sleep, it's dark tooso not much chance of any photography. The Flying Scotsman room has a door to the balcony.

 

[side effect]

You will not get much sleep, it's dark tooso not much chance of any photography. The Flying Scotsman room has a door to the balcony.

That wouldn't make no difference to me as I'm not into photography at all. I just like the railway environment. I would also prefer the west coast as my favourite train is the Caley Sleeper.

 

[VT_Valenta]

I live right above Laira Deopt, my office window overlooks the Carriage Sidings and the Mount Gould Jcn as well as a good view of the HST Shed!

 

[Andy Pacer]

I live next to the MML almost next to Syston railway station.

 

[adamello]

The West Coastway line is at the bottom of my garden..

 

[EbbwJunction1]

My house is on the western side of Newport, South Wales.

I can't see any trains from it, but I can sometimes hear them on their way into Newport or going to Cardiff, although they're comparatively quiet compared to what used to happen. This was when I was very young (pre-teen) and the yards at Ebbw Junction / Alexandra Dock Junction / Monmouthshire Bank were full of wagons, which were regularly shunted around to form trains to a lot of places. I used to lie in bed listening to what was going on until I went to sleep, although I had no real knowledge of exactly what was happening, of course. Now, most of the yards are closed (several of them are now housing or retail), so there's nothing happening now.

 

[Egg Centric]

That wouldn't make no difference to me as I'm not into photography at all. I just like the railway environment. I would also prefer the west coast as my favourite train is the Caley Sleeper.

You could book when it's scheduled to divert via ECML.

The balcony is part of one room so I don't see any reason you couldn't use a sleeping bag on it all night so long as you're also paying for the room!

 

[Class15]

I have various Overground and Class 66s hauling containers and aggregate trains passed my flat every few minutes. Generally, they don't bother me. However, there's always one type of freight train that wakes me up at 02:00 every bloody morning. It's the GBRf car train from Dagenham. The car carrier wagons have a very distinct sound. I can even hear them through my ear plugs.

Hopefully you at least have peace on a Sunday morning, when the entire line is shut?

 

[side effect]

You could book when it's scheduled to divert via ECML.

The balcony is part of one room so I don't see any reason you couldn't use a sleeping bag on it all night so long as you're also paying for the room!

I was thinking of doing that but it's been ages since it last went east coast.

I've travelled twice east coast back in the day.

 

[BazingaTribe]

My best friend when I was a teenager lived right beside the LU line by Barons Court station. Her dad was a driver, so it wasn't altogether a surprise, but it was very convenient for me when I came in to her house (I lived in Bedford, but we met through the Pulp fan club).

As a biiiig tube fan I wished we could swap houses.

 

[Parham Wood]

Used to live next to the Aldershot - Farnham line on the very sharp bend. The wheel squealing didn't seem to bother us. Used to look forward to the oil train and steam specials. Night time track renewal was not much fun but only for two nights and of course the occasional tamper.

 

[0161]

I can see trains going in and out of the Salford side of Manchester Victoria.
and the “Orange Army“ at work during the night.

 

[gdale1]

Never actually lived but use to stay during the summer holidays at my aunties who lived opposite the Birmingham to Bristol main line in Selly Oak, happy times.

 

[leightonbd]

Bit off piste for this thread but two of us used to kip out in a maintenance hut west of Cockett station as an adventure. Sleeping bags, camping stove and some grub. Enough timetabled action in the evening, of which the highlight was the Fishguard to London express, usually a 47 which would come by at about 1 am.Then a kip before the early morning Central Wales Line at about 5.55am

 

[DerekC]

Had an apartment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for six months - right next to the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge (now Norfolk Southern) over the Allegheny River. A big steel bowstring girder. Couldn't see the trains that well from my window, but you could certainly hear them. Engine noise, rumble over the bridge and then there is a ninety degree curve on about 250 metre radius right round the side and back of the apartment block. The flange squeal was something else!

 

[geoffk]

My current and two of my last four homes have offered views of the railway. In reverse order, by Polsloe Bridge station (trains visible in winter when the leaves are off), Littleborough station and the line from South Wales approaching Gloucester station. The two other addresses were also near the railway but it was not visible as it was a) in Winterbutlee Tunnel and b) on an embankment between the two Worcester stations. At Gloucester the line was level with my second floor flat and there was often a freight with two class 37s in the small hours, labouring up the gradient. Littleborough was the best for variety, with a good level of freight.

 

[Ladder23]

My ex partner used to back onto the Waterloo to Reading line, near bracknell/ Wokingham. I loved it, I love the noise of trains passing, I find it very calming, and would gladly live alongside a railway again given the chance.

 

[Pacef8]

Live on the merseyrail tram network on the chester line . Pretty much every night around 1 am engineers rock up doors slam engines rev they walk up to the substation talk about it for hours then go home . Night after night after night for years now , we think its a overtime scam as their are no cameras around to see what they don't do.

 

[Tester]

In 1970-1972 my bedroom looked out over the Metropolitan line just west of Harrow-on-the-Hill.

High spot was steam hauled engineering trains.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The view from my back garden on the WCML 3.9 miles north of Preston

 

[Train wasp]

My house isn’t that far from the main line at Winchester. Always remember listening at night to the VEP traction motors singing way. Happy day’s

 

[Stuart-h]

Used to live in the cess of the east west rail link

 

[DuckFields]

I live a short walk away from North Shields metro station on the Tyne & Wear Metro.

 

[TB]

I'm close enough to the Airedale line to hear horns (and occasionally the odd train itself if loud enough) but much closer to the Worth Valley line. Lovely to hear the kettle's chuffing by on their way out of Keighley and even lovelier in summer when the smell of the coal burning comes in through an open window!

 

[RuddA]

When I was very young we would visit my aunt and uncle in London each August. He was a caretaker at the old Borough Market and lived in a flat above it. Wonderful view of the trains from a lounge window.

 

[D1537]

We can see the line between Northallerton and Yarm from our upstairs windows. Better view in the winter when the trees are bare. Don't really hear the trains but the occasional freight climbing to the summit at Welbury can make a racket, especially with a 56 or 60.

 

[Mr. SW]

237K views · 1.5K reactions | The Subway outside your window #realestate #nycbuildings #brooklyn #apartment #reelsinstagram #reels | Simply Brooklyn, Apartment Rentals

The Subway outside your window #realestate #nycbuildings #brooklyn #apartment #reelsinstagram #reels.

www.facebook.com

Just sayin'...
New York.

 

[Belfastmarty]

As I write I have a view over NIRs Portrush branch, which, whilst scenic, is possibly not the most exciting railway to live beside. When I still lived with my parents we were 6 miles from the nearest railway, but I could clearly hear trains through Lisburn, especially 111 class GMs on the Enterprise.

 

[Egg Centric]

Not my house (obviously) but Pelaw Grange (recently renamed Star Pelaw after some bookie) greyhound racing stadium has the ECML *right* next to it (such that if they wanted to build a stand on one side of it the railway would have to come in between like that Slovakian football club with a heritage line running through) with perfect visibility of everything going past due to the palisade fencing. I think that deserves an honourable mention.

 

[uglymonkey]

I live about 100 metres from Hitchin- Cambridge line. Close enough for the "Dear railway neighbours" letters.