If you live close to a railway/train station…

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Do they notify you when there will be major works?

TIA

Not always

Pretty much never

I get really nice nice letters addressed to "Dear Railway Neighbour" notifying me of work on the line near the station near me.

Yes

Yes.

Yes get a nice letter telling us when, what and why they're doing it. The last two weekends they've done overnight work and we had a letter explaining why it was at night and apologising. I'd say it happens once or twice a year but it is only an hourly train service (two trains an hour, one in each direction).

My garden backs onto the railway, never had a letter in 6 years I’ve lived here and been woken up a few times in middle of night lol, luckily pretty rare though

Yes

Always get a letter.

Yeah, we have a railway line at the bottom of our garden and they always send letters to 'railway neighbours' informing us of planned works.

We're about an 8 minute walk away and always get letters. I've never heard the overnight works though, although I can hear early morning trains if I'm awake.

If it's overnight works then yes we do.

Usually yes

Depends where you live - I used to live near one (Scotland) and we were never notified, you just worked it out when the floodlights went up at midnight and the interminable noise of whatever heavy machine it was this time kept you awake.

Overnight works, yes. When there's a rail replacement bus service or signalling fault, no.
We get postcards or letters and have recently signed up to a WhatsApp group but they've not actually sent a message yet.

I should add - why they inform us seems a bit random, as in we'll get a letter about works from date X to date Y in area A to B, which we couldn't ever hear or see; but not about area C to D which is close enough we can hear it through triple glazing.

Yes and they send letters. There’s been works twice in the 8 years we’ve lived here. Neither time woke us. Pretty major line into London, 3 trains an hour in each direction.
Whereas when we lived backing onto a London tube (overground section) we never received notice and the work’s noise overnight was horrendous and went on for many nights & twice in the 18 months we lived there. I think the difference is only a few houses back onto the line where we are now whereas there were literally hundreds of flats etc in London.

Yes, another Railway Neighbour here. Always for overnight work.

We always do if they are doing overnight works.

You can register for emails here: www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/living-by-the-railway/

Only if it puts the level crossing out of operation

We get the ‘dear railway neighbour’ letters. But usually only if the work is going to be done overnight. They sometimes close our line on a Sunday and do works then. We don’t tend to get notified about those ones

Yes, always. By letter, 'Dear Railway Neighbour...'

A railway line runs a few streets behind our home and we're informed when overnight work is taking place.

We always got letters for overnight works, not for daytime ones. Usually well in advance but even for emergency works we’d get at least a note through the door a few hours before.