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Jerkwater

Something Rhymes with Purple

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The Origins of Schedules

Railway time is something that has intrigued me for a long time. I rarely got into it about forty years ago, when i was involved in putting on a show at the observatory at greenwich. And learnt all about the origins of greenwich meantime,. At the same time, i learnt about the originsof railway time and the beginning of the idea of standardized time. Until then, orthography was pretty loose, wasn't it? That was a leg te shop. All over the shop. People had their own time, really based around the local church clock. Also, the sun went up at certain times and came down, and it was either light or it was dark. It was

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