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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AExchangeclock.JPG">thumb</a><b>Railway time</b> was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the <a href="page.php?w=Great_Western_Railway">Great Western Railway</a> in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different <a href="page.php?w=local_mean_time">local mean time</a>s were synchronised and a single <a href="page.php?w=standard_time">standard time</a> applied.  The key goals behind introducing railway time were to overcome the confusion caused by having non-uniform local times in</p><p>
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