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Could this be a function of running at 110mph? Given the energy at impact is a function of the square of velocity, maybe the windscreen is now beyond its original design parameters?

On a Saturday morning, the Corby trains would often be full and standing by the time they left Wellingborough. Always fun when they got to Bedford & Luton...

The time to triangulate in the middle of nowhere is most likely because your phone relies on being able to use the mobile phone towers to get an initial triangulation. Without mobile phone signal it has to solely rely on GPS satellites, which tends to take longer but is more accurate. You'd get...

Don't forget for at least the last year there's been no Peak Stopper train service south from Wellingborough, so only been able to/from go from St Pancras, rather than Luton or Bedford

And a tweet filmed at Kettering last night/this morning showing that the overhead lines are most definitely live: https://twitter.com/thesatnav89/status/1318747663534329856

Could this be a test run tonight? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/65109/2020-10-20/detailed Edit, perhaps not, as it seems to originate beyond Nottingham.

According to a notice pinned to a fence on a bridge just south of Kettering station, the overhead wires around Kettering are now live. It was originally planned for overnight tonight/tomorrow morning (22nd/23rd)

Brampton Valley Way in Northamptonshire/Leicestershire, which runs along the old Northampton - Market Harborough line. Including through the two unlit single bore tunnels at Kelmarsh and Great Oxenden. I think the route is also classed as National Cycle Network Route 6. A couple of miles are...

It looked like it was wired all the way up to Kettering station, from the south. And to top it off there were reports of cable thefts in the area on Sunday evening, when the tracks were closed for engineering works... all that nice shiny new copper looked rather tempting I suspect.

Not sure if it's been posted here before, but according to https://midlandmainlineupgrade.co.uk/station/wellingborough/ Platform 4 at Wellingborough is going to be reinstated: Kettering also getting longer platform.

Gantries appear to have been erected north of Kettering station - on both pairs of lines. Does this mean that Kettering North junction will be remodelled to allow trains to/from Corby to access Platforms 3 & 4?

Today's timetable was made worse with single track running on the slow line between Wellingborough and Sharnbrook, which adds at least ten minutes to the journey.

Mostly, yes. Irrespective of the bird, every incidence of a bid struck by an aircraft at an airfield has to be catalogued and details sent to the Civil Aviation Authority. If identifiable, the species has to be listed on the Mandatory Occurrence Report, to allow the Authority to track which...

Why would they be running the buses from Corby rather than Kettering? Adding 15mins to the train journey, and an additional 10mins onto the coach journey to Bedford seems rather odd.

Great, thanks. I have done that in the past, but for this trip, unfortunately they're all coming out at twice the price of the hotels next door to New Street.