...to consider buying a house that used to be a railway station?

[LookingUpIn21]

I'm not linking it!

But it's a beautiful Victorian building that used to be the station master's house and the railway station.

The train tracks are still in use - about every 40 minutes a train goes past.

The house is to-die for gorgeous, the garden is on all sides and the view is magnificent.

The house has been on the market for about 6 months now, so I think it must be off-putting.

Would you consider it? I think I could probably get used to the noise, myself. And the fence looks sturdy so I wouldn't worry about DC, although we do have cats. But I wonder if I'm blinded by the interior and would regret it in the end...

Oh my. This came up on BBC Archive today: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=807577703519494

A railway carriage in a house

I actually lived near a train track where trains went by several times during the day and night.
It took three or four days to completely forget the tracks were there and the noise just disappeared.
It turned into white noise.
It was half an acre of gorgeous bliss.
I say go for it.

I THINK YOU GET USED TO LIVING NEXT TO A RAILWAY LINE.

I SAID, I THINK YOU GET USED TO...

Oh, it doesn't matter.

[quote TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]I THINK YOU GET USED TO LIVING NEXT TO A RAILWAY LINE.

I SAID, I THINK YOU GET USED TO...

Oh, it doesn't matter.

I grew up in a pub over the road from a railway station. Sometimes the whole building would shake as the trains went past. But over time I just didn’t notice it anymore.

Would I have noticed if it had been a house rather than a pub? Maybe - less other noises to distract! What about the fact it sounds like it is closer than ours was? Could be louder.

Try to find out things like do trains go past throughout the noise, could you get the sort of glazing done people have near airports, how often are trains during the day,

I’d also consider how safe my kids would be. Kids love to explore places like that. Me and my sister knew the dangers, but had a den pretty close to the tracks. Friends who didn’t think about the dangers would go on the tracks! Kids find a way of getting there if it’s that close, so be damn sure that you’re confident there’s no way of a kid slipped out of an open door by accident that they pulsing accidentally end up on the tracks!

If the house is perfect though, you can find a way to make it work.

Does it have(or could it have) a 6ft plus fence? We have catproof fencing to keep ours in, wooden rollers which go on top of the fence to stop them climbing

I would. They're often beautiful old buildings.

Our house runs parallel to a train line. I'm talking really close! Having lived on an A road I much prefer living alongside the railway. You get used to it incredibly quickly. I don't even notice it now.