Request for speed limits on Oxford - Marylebone services

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[grahame]

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10647002._/?

TRAINS going through Oxford on the new ^130m rail link to Marylebone will be travelling at a minimum of 60mph ^ despite a lengthy campaign for lower speeds.

Residents ^ particularly in Wolvercote ^ claim their lives would be disrupted by noise and vibration from trains at high speed.

They had urged Chiltern Railways to run trains at a lower speed limit ^ suggesting a trial period of 50mph. But the company has confirmed the speed limits of its trains through Oxford in an application to the Office of Rail Regulation.

Now sure if we have covered this aspect before?

[ChrisB]

NIMBYS......plenty of conditions as Chiltern states in the article requiring noise limits

[paul7575]

The inspectors report did this to death, as you'd expect.

There are dozens of pages of objections based predominantly on the noise and vibration effects of the proposed speeds, and they are all dealt with.  Just why they think a subsequent petition might change anything is beyond me.

Paul

[trainer]

Perhaps best to speed the trains up so it's over with more quickly.

[Electric train]

There are so many ways to reduce noise and vibration without reducing speed.  Rail profile, flange lubricators on curves, fiction modifiers, the type of pads between the rail and sleeper.

[Brucey]

I've recently moved and almost back onto the Chiltern Mainline and Central Line near West Ruislip.  I've noticed the faster trains are actually the quietest.  The noisy bit is the diesel engines, the tube trains passing over a set of points and the nightly whistle test at Ruislip depot.  The movement of the train itself is hardly noticeable when the windows are shut.

Having said this, I knew it was there when I moved in.  If it were built afterwards* then I'd be a little miffed....

* = Fortunately I will be on the tunnelled section of HS2^▸ (The next High Speed line(s)).  But I'm renting anyway so it isn't too much of a problem for me.

[eightf48544]

Agree with Brucey fastest are quietest, don't notice HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) at full chat but if one crawls by one notices it and waits for the next one to see if there's  major disruption building up.

Just a thought how fast are Vomiters past these houses?

[anthony215]

We have dicussed the problems about noise before on this forum.

When my parents moved into the current house the traffic outside on the main road was pretty loud however as time has moved on we dont really take any notice unless it is a very heavy lorry during the early hours of the morning.

The same with one of my freinds who lives near the SWML^▸ (South Western Mail Line) @ Pyle who has said that the hst's go flying through at hig speed and even if you notice the noise it is gone within a few seconds or so. Now the problem is with the heavy steel trains from Margam is they are following amber signals so they crawl through Pyle causing a bit of a racket. fir play the local housing developers who built a housing estate near to Pyle station did warn that there was a busy railway line  close by.

These residents in Oxford should in my personal opinion put up and shut up a bit like those idiots in Bristol close to thePortbury branch threatening to cause some disruption to freight services. Ideally homebuyers should do some research when they are purchasing a property close to a railway line, Airport etc.