The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
In response to David Mead’s letter in The Voice (March 5).
Good for him that he sleeps through the trains at night! Envious or what!
A elaboration of facts, he states.
Living where he does and he sleeps through the noise even over the last two Saturdays – the man must be hard of hearing!
The facts – we have trains through the night.
Trains have to sound their horn as there is a pedestrian crossing, this they do up to about 11pm.
There is also a right of way at Vernatt’s at which they must sound the horn.
During the night we still have trains sit at the stop sign beside our property with the engine running.
The trains cause vibration day and night.
The last two Saturdays we have been awake by 2am.
I work full time, which means I am unable to catch up on sleep when I feel like it.
I live in a two storey house which means the sound of the trains are not buffered by the 6ft wooden fence which is the boundary between us and the track.
I would like the same low noise track on our stretch of track that he has.
Denise Taylor-Corbett
Beckett Drive
Spalding
