If you live close to a railway/train station…

[HomeStress]

Do they notify you when there will be major works?

TIA

It has varied, over the years.

Why ?

Yes, we get a postcard type leaflet "dear neighbour..." (Scotland)

Nope. We’re only ‘notified’ there are works by the banging and shouting from the tracks starting around 2am.

Yes, they're very good with it. They always let me know by letter.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the responses. I’ve recently moved to a new home that’s very close to a railway/train station and I was just curious to know if they bothered to notify people living next to it, of impending major works.

You tend to get used to the noise OP and don’t notice it. The train station is literally on the next street to me and the line runs right past my back garden. There’s only trees and a road between them. We had line electrification works going on for months over night a couple of years ago. The pilling part of it was quite noisy the first few nights, but after that I barely even noticed it was happening. Same with the trains passing. None of us even hear them now

the thing I notice most about living so close to a train line is the increased amount of dusting I have to do 😂 might be a coincidence but our last house was not near a train a line and was no where near as dusty as this house gets

God no. I back onto the main line/Elizabeth line in east London, never had a notification/letter or anything in 25+ years.