Major Railway Noise Levels (LAeq) in the UK

Noise exposure metrics for major railways, including LAeq for 6-hour and 16-hour periods, as well as day, evening, and night levels (Lden, Lday, Levening, Lnight). The dataset is provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-03-18.

Use Cases

• Modeling community noise exposure based on railway proximity and traffic.
• Assessing compliance with noise regulations using the provided Lden and Lnight metrics.
• Analyzing diurnal noise patterns using the separate day, evening, and night level columns.
• Creating noise maps for urban planning based on the geospatial data formats.

Strengths

• Includes multiple standard acoustic metrics (Lden, Lnight, Lday, Levening, LAeq,16hr, LAeq,6hr).
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, SHP, GEOJSON).
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:22:39.382086; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely the United Kingdom, based on the platform and publisher.