How many houses between you and a train line not to hear it?

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Looking to relocate, but there isnt much up for sale.
A decent looking house has just come up for sale, but it's about 100m from a train line. About 2 commuter trains an hour, from what we can tell, plus freight.
The set up would be:train tracks, garden, house, road, potential house. How much would that put you off a house? How much do you think we would hear/feel?
I've lived closer to a much busier train line before (Bristol-London mainline) and got used to ut. More wondering if we'd be stuck with a lemon! The other possibility is 200k more (50%), would be a real stretch, and looks out onto a massive pylon......
All thoughts welcome.

I grew up backing on to a tube and train line at the end of a not overly long garden. I can honestly say I didn't notice them and more than once got to the station to find trains had been suspended without me even noticing.

I did used to dream about trains quite a lot though.

Live right by the railway line and an airport and I love the sound of trains and planes so much.

I’m a proper country bumpkin- live in the middle of nowhere. I find traffic noise and street lights really disturbing, but when I stayed at my friend’s who lives right next to a railway it didn’t bother me at all.

1/2 mile as the crow flies and can hear the horns. Doesn't bother me at all but I live on the main road of a village and have lorries thundering past which is much more noticeable!

Used to live with a train track running past the back garden. Would be around 6 trains a day and 2 freight trains. God I wish I lived there now my three year old would go nuts for it! Anyway, never bothered me one bit but would have done if they were at night.

Freight trains at night are generally noisier than passenger during the day.
How much sound travels isn't just about distance but also weather and what is in the way, so a railway line in a cutting is different from one that is at the same level.
I would avoid a railway line as it caused sleep issues with our kids although we (adults) were fine. Their hearing is obviously much more sensitive.

We live quite near a train line, I’m not very good at distances but maybe 100m or so.
We barely notice the trains going past, and the ones we do are not intrusive noise. Far better then road noise, the other end of the estate is near the motorway bridge, that put us off that side.

The only thing that does bother us from the tracks is when it needs work on it, they can only do it over night / early hours and usually on a weekend. That’s very noisy high pitched noise for several hours on a night. It’s not very often and wouldn’t put me off living here again but something to be aware of.

They do put a note through our door letting us know it’s going to be happening though!

You really get used to it. We have a tram line at the bottom of our garden. Most days I don't notice them at all and it's certainly no nuisance. Rather that than being overlooked.

I grew up with the mainline into London at the end of my garden, so very frequent trains passing.
Set up was: train line, 100 footish of garden and house, my bedroom was at the back.

You won't notice it quite quickly, even with single pane wooden windows which I had until I was 10.

I lived overlooking the railway in Clapham (not Clapham Junction) and back when Eurostar used to go from Waterloo those trains were bloody loud - the other trains you could get used to but not those monsters.

Actually the noisiest thing were the urban foxes on the railway at night, screeching for hours on end.

We live next to the Paddington to Penzance line so not frequent.Love the trains especially the night train.I prefer a train line to a road.No problem at all.

We live about a mile from the East Coast line with a huge water meadow in between and we can still hear the trains when the wind’s in the right direction.

One of our kids backs onto commuter train line, couple an hour, each direction. Not a big house but new with good windows and insulation.
I never notice when I’m doing childcare, unless I’m at the back and see it pass by. Their child loves to see the trains from the window.

It’s one of my ambitions to retire to a place that backs on to a heritage line

I lived about 100m from the east coast main line and it didn't bother me at all. It got so I never noticed them. We live around 300m away now and DS loves to listen out for the trains

We live about 100m away, it's quieter than the main road which is further away. I was concerned but actually now would have no hesitation living a bit closer, as others have said, it's not intrusive at all!

Just over a mile away from our village station (and line). Has maybe two trains an hour (to London one way) and do hear the horn, but not an issue.

Our previous house was on the outskirts of a town centre and we were about the same distance away. Could not hear it though because of the noise from the roads! Which was so much worse!

I’m at least a mile from the freight railway line and can hear the freight trains in the night, they don’t really bother me but then I am a mile away. A couple of trains an hour would not bother me, I’d tune them out after a while.

We have a train track at the end of our (small) garden. Two trains per hour use it, no freight as it’s a dead end route. Honestly I don’t notice it much and what I do hear is no issue. I like having the tracks behind the house as it gives a more ‘peaceful’ feel than having other houses there. And the rough ground and shrubs between the tracks and my garden create a wonderful wildlife zone too!

I’m about 100m from a train line and I love the sound of the trains going by!

Recently moved further away from railway line and I miss it!

When I lived in London, a suburban line ran at the bottom of the garden. You soon tune out the sound. In fact the only time we'd notice was if a steam train was out for some special occasion: the racket!!!, but we all rushed to to watch it pass by.

Less amusing was the transport of nuclear waste which was public information until the government decided it shouldn't be. I expect that still goes on.

I'd be quite happy to live in the house near a train track but would never buy a house near a pylon. Periodically there are questions as to whether pylons emit something detrimental to health and when we walk near a pylon a few miles from us you can hear a hum from it. I'm not saying that they all hum or that they are definitely detrimental to health but I am saying that when it's time to resell your house there will be people like me who'd not even consider buying it from you.

I’m about 150m away from a busy freight line, with about 20 houses in between (Victorian terraces). I can’t hear anything, even at night with windows open.

When I lived about 75m away, with around 14 houses in between, I could hear trains when it was quiet but it was never disturbing. Within 50 metres and the noise is very definite - although it’s the reverberations from the bridges that seem worse than the actual train noise.

I grew up about 100 yards from the midland mainline. Barely noticed it.