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Network Rail Track Grinding disgrace.

In Mid October in the middle of the night Network Rail used a Rail Grinding (Roughening up the Rails) machine onone  the Tracks in the Barnes - Waterloo direction.As we live close to the Railway I woke up to a whole different SCREECHING sound from the passing Trains going towards Putney Station that morning!I have circulated Flyers along the Track Route asking Residents to phone or email Network Rail & also contacted them myself a number of times to no avail.If you live within a 50 Metre distance you will definitely hear  this Terrible sound ( especially when you’re in the Garden)  Using a Decibel Monitor the difference between the existing Tracks & the machined one  it was a whopping 20 DB louder!!They should have simply Replaced the Track in Question not caused Residents this Huge problem which could affect Saleability or Rental income. I urge people to contact Network Rail on 03457 114141

Vic Condon ● 2501d8 Comments

NIMBY.

Allen Bracchi ● 2500d

Allen Bracchi…..  ????????????????

Ivonne Holliday ● 2500d

Another forum member put about a noise late at night along the track and got laughed at if you move near a railway what do you expect. That was about October.

Barbara Stevens ● 2500d

It was Vic who posted the previous time about the noise and I called him out on it bearing in mind his response to Heathrow expansion has consistently been 'you chose to live near an airport, get over it'.

Matt Palmer ● 2500d

Matt. We live next to the railway and hardly notice any noise from it. I've never complained about LHR as one reason I moved to Putney was it's  proximity to LHR (and LGW) as I was doing a lot of business travel a few years ago. 

Michael Ixer ● 2500d

Yeah i used to live very close to it too, never bothered me too much apart from the occasional heavy goods train or when they did overnight work

Matt Palmer ● 2500d

Some people are more sensitive to noise.  My MIL with tinnitus was.  It may be worthwhile meeting and leafleting neighbours to see if you are the only person troubled.  Of course it may be that you are the only owner and those renting will just move away if they are troubled by the noise rather than be bothered to do anything about it.

Philippa Bond ● 2500d

I live very near to Vic and haven't been troubled by untoward noise from trains.

Caroline Whitehead ● 2500d