WHISTLING AND NOISE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 6

WHISTLING AND NOISE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —How do the people of Thorndon endure the noise of the trains, especially the constant whistling? Sometimes there is not much whistling —sometimes it is as it was on Monday, practically speaking, constant. The express trains never shriek as they come in and out, but every Hutt Valley train and, alas! most electric trains and rail-cars, find it necessary to whistle, not only once, but often two and three times as they enter and leave the railway yards. The constant sharp whistles, sudden shrieks, give one's whole nervous system' shocks, which are hard to get over. If a person is at all out of sorts, each sound is magnified, and patients in the hospitals in the vicinity must spend many quite unnecessary miserable hours.

And need shunting always be so noisy? Last night for almost three hours a particularly noisy engine, puffing, steaming, snorting, and banging kept the residents disturbed. If the engine-drivers thought of the annoyance, especially to sick people, I am sure there would be no whistles, and Thorndon and Highland Park and Goldie's Brae would be much pleasanter places to live in.—l am, etc.,

PRUDENCE SMITH.