Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Railway fence - what will it look like?
Has anybody heard recently from Network Rail about fencing "improvements"? Our garden on Lothair Road North faces the railway embankment and currently the only fence there is our own. Today we received a letter from Network Rail saying that fencing improvements would start sometime after Wednesday of last (!) week. No indication of what the fence we'll be looking at every day will look like, and needless to say no consultation.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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No consultation because it's their land and railway works are not always subject to the full range of planning consents, I believe. Network Rail's page on fencing has microscopic images for types of fencing, here.
On the Railway Fields side of the railway opposite Lothair Road South it's concrete post plus chain link fence, rather than the more intrusive pallisade type. I'd hope it's the same for your side of the tracks, since there are houses, back gardens and residents' fences to reduce the risk of NR's fence being reached in the first place.
Another larger visual intrusion will be the masts used to support the electrification wiring which is the reason for beefing up NR's fencing, and you'll have no say on whether there's one at the end of the garden or not. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. But the trains will be quieter.... some of them. All the eight passenger trains per hour, and some of the freight.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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They started cutting the hedges back over the summer but very little.
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Permalink Reply by Glenn Wallis on
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Gordon is correct. There is legislation going back to the early 19th Century requiring railways to be fenced. That some large sections of our line relies on the adjacent householder is rather indicative of the past 50 odd years of neglect, it was called "the Forgotten Railway" after all!
You are likely to get galvanized steel posts with framed steel mesh panels, although you might be lucky and get some black metal railings I saw going in behind houses in Walthamstow earlier in the year. Pallisade fencing rarely is installed behind residential property unless there is a long history of trespass.
It's all up to the flying fickle finger of Network Rail!
Glenn Wallis
Secretary
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