Pelletstown train station - How do you make a noise complaint?

I assume you contact Irish Rail and which ever council area it’s in regarding PP issues.

I think you're going to get no luck in Irish rail or the council, Just getting more and more frustrated with the lot of them.

That leaves you with two options tbh.

Look at making your place more noise proof, Better windows or sealing up openings.

Or since you now have a newly opened station beside you, sell up as more than likely the prices have risen.

Just to confirm; 12.30 am is half past midnight, this is what you mean?

If so, then yes, you are well within your rights. Would suggest to write to IE; Contact Us (irishrail.ie) first, and if no resolution I would complain to Dublin City Council and copy in Transport Infrastructure Ireland.

If you go straight to the Council, the first thing they'll ask is what did IE say.

The phone app accuracy is not "limited", it's non existent. The figure its giving is basically made up.

You also don't have a pre-construction baseline to compare to even if your readings were off something verifiable.

I'll have to check the planning docs but I'd expect the estimated sound increase was a daily or even yearly average and not applicable to an instantaneous read.

Any train not stopping at Pelletstown will sound its horn on approach - that's a safety measure. During the day that's all of the Sligo trains.

There are two empty trains passing Pelletstown around 00:30 returning to Connolly, which presumably are the trains causing the issue for the OP.

I am curious though as to how the Intercity ICR trains could possibly be louder than the Commuter 29000 sets. I would have thought it would be the other way around.

To be honest OP, I suspect that you will get used to the sounds in time - residents in Swords under the flightpath of the old main runway at Dublin Airport used to never bat an eyelid as aircraft passed overhead.

A train not stopping at an unstaffed station must sound its horn on approach.

That is not optional - it is a safety requirement.

The Commission for Railway Regulation set the safety rules.

The entire safety rules are not in publicly available documents - you’d need to contact the CRR and IÉ. But I cannot see it suddenly changing just for you given that it is standard practice all across the network as a safety protocol.

With all due respect, I don’t have to tell anyone how I know things. I’ve told you who to contact.

Nor do I know of too many companies that publish their internal operating practices in public?

There is nothing selective about it. The trains that are not stopping are travelling at line speed which is up to 70mph. They pose a far greater risk to anyone who happens to be on the platform and as such that’s why they sound their horn.

My point about changing it to suit you was in the context that those same trains have been passing Clonsilla, Coolmine, Ashtown, Broombridge etc. for years and following the same safety rules there too and yet people don’t seem to have the same problem with it?

As I said in an earlier post, you will probably get used to it fairly quickly.

stopping trains don't have to blow the horn, trains that are not stopping do, even if that is selective, there is good reason behind it and it won't be changing, you will need to come to terms with it.

you live beside an active railway, noise is just a fact of life and trains are mostly quiter compared to years ago.

the same trains at more or less the same times had been traveling the line before the station was opened and you didn't seem bothered about it.

you will get used to it.

What I said was that the CRR have overall responsible for safety.

Beyond that IÉ have their own internal rules and these are not in the public domain.

Both of those combined determine how the railway operates.

I just happen to know that one of the rules is that if a train is passing through an unstaffed station without stopping, it must sound the horn as a safety measure, which, let’s be honest, given that it might be travelling at a speed of up to 70mph at Pelletstown, is probably reasonable.

I am not trying to make things up here, but realistically, you are living beside an operational railway - you have to accept that there is going to be noise at anti-social hours.

As for the diesels being left running back in the 80s and 90s, that was more the real problem that if they shut them down they would not restart - sounds daft, but that was the issue.

The idling of a diesel loco is a very soothing sound, you should should consider your self lucky.

the poster didn't revise their position, they have been clear all the way through.

locomotives were left running for the efficiency of the railway, as starting up locomotives at that time took a serious amount of time and sometimes they would not start in cold weather meaning delayed and canceled services if not left running.

it's very simple, if people live beside an active railway then they will just have to accept what comes with that, the same as if you move in beside an airport or an active motor way.

when it comes to infrastructure projects the greater good will win over a minority of complaints as the benefits outweigh the negatives and a lot more people will benefit, so any improvements on this or other lines will be happening.

What do you propose can be done to address your complaint to your satisfaction?

the station has nothing to do with it, the same happenings have been happening on the railway long before it opened.

therefore he has been living beside an active railway without issue until now.

trains have to make noise as that is what they do.

they have to sound horns when approaching unmanned stations when not stopping because that is the rules and it is a safety precaution so as to be health and safety concious and for the health and safety of all of the public, as a train is not stopping in the same time frame as a road vehicle if the worst happens nor is it able to swerve to avoid.