Property Near Railway Track

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Hello, We liked a property and considering moving forward with it. However, we have a doubt regarding its location as it is near a railway track (it's a 3rd house from the railway). Would you buy a property this close to the railway track? Would it affect future saleability? I have attached an image showing the property's location and the railway track.
Thank you for your advice.

How frequent are the trains?
One a day is very different to say 10 an hour.
Are the windows on the property double glazed and relatively new?

Ours has the track literally at the end of the garden. But the station is only 5 minutes up the road so definitely a plus point. It has commuter trains, not high speed. They don't run through the night and don't usually carry freight. You get used to the noise very quickly.

Much will depend on the type of trains, the level of the track (cutting/embankment/ground level will have impacts on the noise level), frequency etc

My flat is adjacent to a railway line although it is in a slight cutting.
It is what it is. You may find the price is slightly lower than it would be than for an identical property with a different setting but presumably you also benefit from a slightly reduced price when buying.
The noise doesn't really bother me ( except when they do track maintenance in the early hours) but check whether the line is electrified. Diesel trains will pollute the air more and are much noisier.

How frequent are the trains? How many lines?

Do you like trains/the noise of trains?

Also you might find the movement of the train as it goes past causes your house to "wobble" a bit. - we use to live on a main road, when the traffic started in the mornings that was my alarm clock. When a lorry went past I could feel it through my mattress.

We live in the equivalent of house 126 on your map. Ours is a mainline and in a cutting. Freight and high speed. They go through the night, but not that many.

you get used to it really quickly, it was weirder on the strike days when they weren’t running.
house doesn’t shake or anything and we have normal double glazing.

I do wear earplugs at night though, as like to have the window open year round.

Our house was cheaper because of the railway, we couldn’t afford to be here otherwise. On 3 sides we have no neighbours and just fields around us otherwise.

I’d rather a railway than a busy road having lived by both.

We live right next to a busy line that has also freight coming through at night - after a while you don't even register the sound anymore!

I live near a rail line, mainline but no overnight trains (end around midnight start up again around 6am). Occasional freighttrain. Steam train twice a day on Sundays (lovely bonus!).
I am about 100m away, line slighty lower than property height, and the noise does not bother me at all. 50% are slowing for the station, the rest at speed. Apart from the odd train when I'm going to sleep/waking up and there is no other noise I don't hear them at all.
Far less intrusive than a friend who can hear the motorway very clearly in her garden (M5 so incredibly busy on summer weekends when you want to enjoy your garden).

I'd love to like beside a railway. I love the sound of trains.

It will impact the resale value as people will be nervous about buying so close to the line, just as you are, and you'll have to price competitively to help them to overcome their concerns. But presumably you are also benefitting from a reduced price?

If you feel that you're not, or that you're at the top of the market, I wouldn't.

If you are only considering it yourself because the market is so hot in your area that you are struggling to find anywhere else, I'd leave it because, if you have to sell in a cooler market in the future, you might struggle.

I grew up living near a railway line and wouldn't choose to again. I never got used to the noise or movement. But I'd choose it over a busy, fast road.

It totally depends on the type of trains. You should go at night and spend a few hours and see what noises there are. I lived a few row of houses from major freight and passenger train tracks in London. Never heard the trains. The noisiest thing was the trucks on the road going to and from the train terminal.

I grew up living right next to a railway line - it might sound daft but you don't notice the noise at all. When my DH started to stay over he noticed it at first but very quickly stopped.

We had a train line at the bottom of our garden. You get so used to it you just don't notice it.

Spent months dithering about a lovely house backing onto a busy main railway line, having lived on a very busy road decided against it. One reason was that even if you got used to it, it would be difficult to sell on. This one is beautiful, modern, fields on 3 sides but in a small town, yet has been on the market for ages, price reduced etc.

It will put off future buyers. It would put me off a house. But not as bad as a busy road.

The price you buy at and the price you sell at will both reflect the proximity of the railway - so it shouldn't make any difference compared to any other house at the same price.

Hello, thank you all for your replies.
It appears that living so close to the railway line is not an issue if the line is electrified.

The windows were recently changed in 2019 and are double glazed. Also, the line is slightly lower than the house. So it may help with the level of noise?

Does anybody know how to check if the line is electrified or not? I assume most lines would be electrified these days.

I think we live that distance from a line and its fine, with regular trains, intercitys and freight). No problem with houses selling either, they go really quickly (but we are also close to the station). Much prefer it to when we lived near a main rd and smaller busy roads.