On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:08:32 GMT, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date - 2-3-07 >Day - Friday >Start - 1015 bottom of Claydon Flight >End - Banbury town centre 1430 hrs > >We thought we were well away from the railway when we moored last night, >we could barely hear the trains passing, then at about 1830 all the >trains hooted twice as the passed through the cutting, thank goodness >this stopped about 11pm. In the early hours I was woken by what I >thought was a boat coming up the cut but it was a heavy, slow moving >train completely covered in lights drawing out of the cutting, I can only >assume that they had been working on the line all night. I did notice a >few days ago that there are a lot of new sleepers laying beside the >track, so maybe they are changing them out.
Railways have never bothered me - I've moored at Streeton on the N Oxford and slept no problem. Yes Brian - that would have been a track maintenance train with floodlights etc. -- Malcolm
