The Gravy Train

Until the part of the eighteenth century, time was normally determined in each town by the local sun dial. Solar time is actually calculated with reference to the position of the sun. So you could have local time differing by up to 20 minutes from, say, oxford,. Was used to be, i think five minutes behind greenwich meantime. Hee leads was six minutes behind that. Carnforth, one of my favourite stations, because it's where the film brief encounter was filmed, was 11 minutes behind greenich meantime. Barrow was 13 minutes bynd. You can see the great confusion there woud have been unless they manage get one unified time so we could all be on schedule together

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