abstract:Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local times were synchronised and a single standard time applied. Railway time was progressively taken up by all railway companies in Great Britain over the following two to three years.
If not, a little reminder about the way in which the creation of railwaytime led to our use of both time zones and the very idea of nationally coordinated time.
And by the Sun, Bristol time is 9 minutes behind London (plus perhaps 50 years in social attitudes) and the railway unilaterally adopted London time exactly to solve those coordination problems.