Railway time
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railway-time-168-16733996
title:
Railway time
text:
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 mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied. The key goals behind introducing railway time were to overcome the confusion caused by having non-uniform local times in each town and station stop along the expanding railway network and to reduce the incidence of accidents and near misses, which were becoming m
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Time scale for rail transport
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
date created:
2006-08-13T02:05:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T04:51:46Z
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