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Well, had an interesting one a few years back. The railway line past my house is sometimes used by freight if another section of the network is closed for repairs, as it's normally maintained as a Light Railway on the section south of here (max speed 25mph, lighter axle loadings, basically a way to avoid spending money on keeping a decent service going...). Normally we just get single car or two car railbusses cruising through, their wheels make more noise than the power units from outside, riding in them is a different matter at the engines are underfloor-mounted, so when pulling away and running on the main line "up north" at around 70mph or so they are loud... <br /> <br />One night at about 2am I was awakened by a noise like a 747 at takeoff - something very large had been re-routed and the driver had decided to open the throttle wide (bringing the turbo up to speed and making an amazing noise) just as he cleared the overbridge down the road. I've no idea what the train was as it was completely dark at the time!
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