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A question that came to me out of the blue. When did railways in the UK start using the 24 hour clock?

The Flying Scotsman will be at Peterborough's Nene Valley Railway (NVR) until 9 March. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93ky90wkl3o

Here's a nice seasonal story from the Nene Valley Railway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dxz9jdz56o

Latest news on this project. The former Wansford Road station building is to be relocated to the Nene Valley Railway station at Peterborough. https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/ambitious-project-to-transport-historic-train-station-to-peterborough-set-to-be-completed-in-2025-4854685

Good news for those eligible including me although I rarely travel before 9:30. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly64r0kw7go

Watching this video I wondered what is the purpose of the blue metal fencing seen at 31:20?

Several of these holes appeared in my lawn overnight. Does anyone know the culprit?

This video appeared on my YouTube recommendations, I didn't know such a thing existed. Considering its size it looks quite impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_gauge

Stagecoach buses in Peterborough are displaying the scrolling message: Saeson Greetings Is this a national thing or just local?

I've just settled down to watch this film I found on YouTube and right at the beginning there's a quite spectacular train crash which appears to be live action. I thought it might be of interest as people can try to identify the locations and rolling stock. There's also a scene at a station...

From BBC News: Archive video shows 1955 Peterborough train derailment aftermath https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67240936

Since the latest update Firefox (on Ubuntu 18.04) keep crashing on certain sites. It seems fairly random, most sites are OK, others crash occasionally (this site for instance), others are unusable e.g. Flightradar24. Is anyone else having the same problem?

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This is just about the strangest headline I've ever seen, it's not even April 1st. Pig vomit toxin key to Martian meteorite mystery

The long disused Wansford Road station building is to be dismantled and rebuilt at the Nene Valley Railway/Railworld site at Peterborough https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-62634704

An interesting video about fossils from Aron Ra. Imagine a deaf conspiracy theorist seeing the subtitles at 1:50.

825mph in a 747! Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51433720

A section of Trump's wall on the US/Mexico border has succumbed to high winds. This is what you get when "Mexico pays for the wall". Unconfirmed reports suggest it was repaired by Mexican construction workers.

I confess to indulging in a bit of schadenfreude when I read this. Most of my speakers are 40 to 50 years old and have never needed a software update.

At the risk of being labelled a pedant or worse "a spelling Nazi" I would like to point out the difference between the words "lose" (verb: to be deprived of, unable to find, fail to win etc.) and "loose" (adjective: not tight, slack, careless etc.). I don't know why but the mistake of using...