This came through the door today. It was addressed to Railway Neighbour and started Dear Neighbour, which I think is cute. The railway line is probably about 300 yards away from us but you wouldn't know it - it's in a cutting and any noise from trains that escapes is blocked by the houses in between and exceeded by the sound of traffic.
But the thing about maintaining a railway without disrupting it too much is that you have to do works overnight. So next week sounds like fun. They're going to be removing vegetation and checking the stability of the cutting. I will have to remember to go down and have a look and see whether I can get any pictures of it changing through the week.
But most of all, I'm going to have to stay up late on the first night to see whether the noise might wake me up!
