LETTER: Trains: What a fuss about nothing

I’ve just read your article on the train diversions through Spalding causing “horrendous tailbacks”.

What a lot of fuss about nothing.

These diversions happen on only a handful of days in the year.

The total number of ‘paths’ translates to an additional four trains an hour at the very most – and, as your article hints, not all of the freight paths will actually be used anyway.

As for homes shaking, although some (but by no means all) freight trains can be heavier these days, they are significantly quieter and a lot less frequent than they were 40 or 50 years ago.

Additionally, most of the track does not have jointed rail any more, which in years gone by was a source of noise and vibration.

If people don’t like it, why did they move next to a railway line in the first place?!

I live about 150 feet from the railway myself.

I’d far rather live next to a railway line with long periods of nothing happening, than next to a busy main road with a constant roar of traffic noise!

Anthony Hicks
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