Disturbance from train noise

BarraOG · 17-06-2014 12:08am #1

Were looking into renovating an old cottage 150m from a railway line in the middle of the countryside between Tullamore and Portarlington.

How likely is it that we will be disturbed, in any way, by this line?

Thanks for your help,

Barry

Hilly Bill · 17-06-2014 12:42am

Very likely at some stage especially at night if any maintenance work is going on plus the noise from the tampers can be a bit loud at night.

corktina · 17-06-2014 6:58am

I'd say after a few weeks you'll rarely hear a thing, with the exception as above of occasional maintenance. Sounds like Trainspotters Heaven to me

BelleOfTheBall · 17-06-2014 7:15am

I lived in estate that track ran outside my mothers house.i get use to it.we know Ennis train passing or years ago gypsium and Guinness were transported!!!!

Julius Seizure · 17-06-2014 7:34am

I lived in an apartment in ballyfermot right next to the triple line into heuston. You get used to it, soon you don't hear it. And there was a train every 5 minutes there! Anyway they stop at night.

JeffK88 · 17-06-2014 10:33am

Grew up in a house where the main Dublin, Cork-Limerick-Waterford-Galway-Westport-Kerry Line passed by mere meters from where I slept. You do get use to it but there is times where maintenance trains or whatever the hell it was/is would shake the house in the middle of the night twice a year from between 2am - 5am. Although quieter the new trains feel much heavier as everything shakes when they pass by. But at 150mts you wont experience this and as other posters stated will nearly forget you're near a railway , unless your're a trainspotter

The_Wanderer · 18-06-2014 11:05pm

It will become backround noise.

I live about 500 metres from the Dublin - Galway Line and about 1km from the Dublin - Cork Line, I hear the trains and can tell the difference (I would) between them. But it isn't intrusive at all.

L1011 · 19-06-2014 11:13am

You don't notice it after a while, although if it stopped entirely you might notice that - my parents moved from a house backing on to the line to one where you could still hear the annoucements from the station (albeit a different station) and had difficulty sleeping for the first few weeks without the Guinness trains going past in the night! By all means use it as a bargaining piece on the price though.

Cookie_Monster · 19-06-2014 11:29am

wife's parent live about 20m from the DART line in Shankill. Noise wasn't that big a deal but the whole house vibrated pretty badly.

Disturbance from train noise

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