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.

We’re half a mile away and can clearly hear them in the garden

I'd definitely choose the train one. Without a doubt, pylon is a permanent p, horrible eye sore, the train noise you'd not even notice after a while, I promise. I had one at the end of my garden for 20 years.

Train tracks run at the back of the building we live in (there's a wall and an embankment), busy city station so multiple trains an hour and we hardly hear any noise - the occasional train horn but nothing that disturbs us at all.

Depends which way the wind's blowing...

Depending on the direction of the wind, I can hear the train from the neighbouring village at night so...

I enjoy living by a train line. Spent my childhood from 13 with a slightly more frequent service to London and live in a rural area now within view of a very infrequent service but I love hearing the train go past. It makes me think of being connected to other places.

I think a lot depends on the surrounding terrain, but for what it's worth...

I lived literally opposite a train station in Canterbury 10 years ago, busy station and other than hearing the announcements I became pretty used to it pretty quickly.

Our last house was 0.2 miles from a train station (so 3 rows of houses equivalent). It wasn't a busy line with only two trains an hour, again didn't bother us at all and actually was useful being so close to a station into town.

Our current house is 1.5 miles away from the nearest train line but ironically we hear the horns much more than either of my previous houses as we're really elevated. Even with the noise it still doesn't bother me to be honest! I think if my garden literally backed onto a busy line that would bother me but a quiet line a few roads away is likely to be fine.

We are 500m away
Lots of houses in between but if the wind is blowing this way you can hear the trains
It also varies on the height of the railway vs the streets

Thank you for all the comments.
I guess we need a trip to stand under the pylons, and see how the height of the land round the tracks lies as well as seeing the houses!
Good that not many of you would be totally put off.
I'm more against the pylon house (with its NE facing garden!) and £££ too.
Or maybe some more stuff will come on the market!

I’m about half a mile from the level crossing, we can hear the trains at night with the bedroom windows open. We live rurally though so the sounds travels straight across the fields.

We are 1 house and garden from a train and tube line. I don’t even notice them. I wouldn’t like to look at a pylon though.

I live near a Trainline, there’s an alley at the end of my garden then houses and gardens then the Trainline opposite those and we barely hear it, when we do it’s no worse than a car - even the high speed trains or freight as they are really quiet.

Wondering if your near West Byfleet station and the massive pylons close to there!

I live about half a mile away from a main station and whilst you can hear them if you are in the backyard you cant hear them in the apartment.

I once stayed in a hotel right next to a tram stop and found the noise soothing although it is a softer sound.

Train noise and traffic doesn't bother me.

I love train lines. I’d probably pay over the asking to live near the line!! When I lived in Clapham I loved nothing better to watch from the terrace the lines switching over!!

Can you arrange to view the house at a time when a train goes past and listen out for it? I remember my parents doing so when purchasing our house to put their mind at ease.
Echoing what others are saying, train noise never bothered us. We barely noticed it really.

I hate road noise and nearby pylons but I'd be totally fine with a nearby train line.

We live right next to the Midland Mainline and it's very busy. It's loud in the garden but you get used to it very quickly. I love trains and love looking down the track, plus before covid we occasionally saw the Flying Scotsman. The one thing I would mention is that Network Rail sometimes have to carry out essential works at night. They always give notice of these but it can be very, very noisy in the dead of night (having said that I am almost always the only member of the house who notices!)

My grandparents live 3 houses (semis) away from a train line in Liverpool. You don’t even really notice it’s there, although I’d always find hearing the last train quite comforting.

I work within sight of a busy train line. The freight trains are more noisy and the noise goes on for longer (as they're really long trains!) and we do get the odd whistle from the trains. However, I mostly tune it out.

We were wanting to buy a house with the HS2 line at the bottom of the garden, sadly they weren't particularly committed to selling. I'd just watch out that there isn't a whistle sign right by your house though!!!

It's not the same but I live close to where the offshore helicopters fly over in Aberdeenshire, it's very very regular (a couple an hour) and quite loud but honestly we've managed to tune it out. It's not a big deal at all.

We have a train line at the bottom of our garden. Garden is about 80ft long then down an embankment with lots of trees is the line. It’s not a mainline but I have no idea how many trains run per hour as the noise just fades into the background. When a large freight goes along and often stops as the lights are just a little down the line, it’s noticeable but not enough to even disturb sleep. We’ve had work go on a few times a year apparently, we get the letters but I’ve never heard works or maintenance noise in the 5 years we’ve been here. The hooting of the horn is quite nice tbh it always makes me smile.

We have a trainline at the bottom of our garden, about 50m away. We barely notice.

The main thing that reminds us is the level crossing as we leave our street.

About 300 miles from West Byfleet!
How do we find out if the trans are likely to signal in that area? It's all residential, but fairly close to a station and level crossing.

Freight trains are the issue. I lived on a barely used line with 2 trains an hour in each direction but the 2-3 nighttime freight trains caused the whole building to shake.