How railways made London’s Greenwich the centre of world time

Name: How railways made London’s Greenwich the centre of world time
Uploaded: 2019-01-15T10:28:36.000Z
Duration: 2 min 9 s
Description: Before the world had time zones, train timetables were confusing and out of sync.

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This year will mark 135 years since the creation of the world clock.

But before this, train timetables were confusing and out of sync.

The Today programme's Atif Rashid, external looks at how the expansion of the railways led to the creation of time zones in 1884.