How many trains go past my house?

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There is a railway track not far from the house we're looking at. I don't think its a dealbreaker, you can't really hear the two-carriage trains that much from the house (its a cross country line, not a mainline one), but frieght trains would be louder, take longer and run at night.

I've got the timetable for the passenger trains but does anyone know how I find out about the freight trains? THANK YOU!

Here.
www.networkrail.co.uk/browseDirectory.aspx?dir=\Timetables\Working%20Timetable%20(WTT)&root=\Timetables\Working%20Timetable%20(WTT)

Oooh, brilliant. Will have a look! Thank you

We used to live near a railway line and I think you unconsciously get used to the timetable. Guests always used to get woken by trains but we rarely did.

We used to live in a house that had a huge garden with a local railway line across the bottom (on a raised bank). Yes, you get very used to it. As a SAHM, I used to find it quite strangely comforting, an hourly connection with the rest of the world!

The only downside was a couple of times a year, they would do track work, always in the middle of the night and impossible to sleep through, it was so loud.

There is an easier way than ploughing through the complex Network Rail docs.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced

choose the nearest station and select freight trains. It will show you what is timetables, and also how many actually run (which is normally less)