Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·
railways invented time zones
5 sources · 39 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “history of time zones railways”
- Ended at
- International Meridian Conference
The Trail
- “history of time zones railways” (google.com)
- Railway time (en.wikipedia.org)
- Time zone (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sandford Fleming (en.wikipedia.org)
- International Meridian Conference (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Before trains, every town kept local solar time. Railways needed consistent schedules, so British railways adopted Greenwich time in the 1840s and US railroads created standard zones in 1883, before governments made it official.
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