railway time

English

Noun

railway time (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 15:
      The disparate time zones of Britain were unified under 'railway time' - as Dickens famously observed in Dombey: 'It was if the sun itself had given in.'
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