Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Something changed with train lines? Hearing trains at Florence Road since last week
I live at Florence Rd.
Anyone knows why I only started hearing them now? Late evenings/nights but only since about last week - never hward trains at all since Imived here in December so this is a bit strange. Hmmm
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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There was some engineering work on there over the weekend, at night, involving a train fixing the tracks. It may have continued into the week. It was mentioned on here somewhere.
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Permalink Reply by John Leeming on
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Which line are you hearing the trains from? The main line through Harringay or the Overground? Could it be than new slab track on the Overground near Crouch Hill is noisier than the former track?
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Might it also be because of a change in atmospheric conditions? I live east of Green Lanes but, in certain circumstances, very late at night I hear the trains on the main line through Harringay as though they're at the bottom of my garden. I must live easily half a mile or more from the railway, and there's higher ground between GL and the tracks, so I conclude there's something about the acoustics (maybe a very quiet evening and a westerly breeze) that sometimes "lifts" the sound and sends it my way. If that's the case here, you may find it comes and goes rather than being persistent. To be honest, I find the sound quite reassuring, but perhaps that's from being shown "Night Mail" at an impressionable age.
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That frequency makes it sound more like the main line to/from King's Cross, as the Overground stops around 11pm and isn't as frequent anyway. Two other thoughts: has anyone removed trees, foliage or a fence nearby recently? Any of those might have been blocking the sound beforehand. And if your bit of Florence Road is at the Stroud Green end, could it be to do with the Overground electrification, possible clearance of the trackside and late-night engineering trains? (Clearance might have happened on the main line, too, of course.) No idea what you could do about it if so, but others here are well-versed in the intricacies of Network Rail/TfL and might advise.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I've asked Glenn Wallis who runs the GOBLIN line users group to take a look at your post, Anka.
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Answering some points from contributors:
The GOBLIN Overground line is run by Transport for London. If those are the trains you are hearing they would be every 7½ minutes on average, plus the occasional fright train and night-time engineering train. They are diesel trains, so you might hear the throb of the diesel engine as they accelerate away from Crouch Hill station.
On the main line a train is likely to be passing every couple of minutes, though they are mostly electric.Both lines are in deep cuttings for the most part, so I wouldn't expect to hear the trains very much in Florence Road.
Anka, you say you hadn't heard trains since December. When did you start hearing them again? The Overground line was out of action until the end of February - was this when you started to notice them? Do you hear them during the day or at night?
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If they are fast trains, then it must be the main line between Finsbury Park and Harringay, shown running north-south on this map
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.5710/-0.1082
I don't know of any reason why you would not have heard the trains before December - they have been running for nearly 180 years on that line! The Overground line is the east-west one above your road on the map. The trains here were not running in December, but they started running again at the very end of February, following a period of closure for upgrade work. You may hear freight trains on this line from time to time during the night.The Victoria and Piccadilly lines run underground below Finsbury Park itself - they are shown as the dotted lines on the right of this map. I don't think you would hear trains on the Underground lines from Florence Road.
Have you tried following the direction of the sound and see where you end up?
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