Sentence examples for railway time from inspiring English sources
noun
A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations.
My life has become determined by tide, rather than railway time tables.
In November 1840 the Great Western Railway imposed Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on its stations, and by September 1847 "Railway Time" was used across the network.
Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, which included train times for both the north and south along with an "Assistant to Railway Travelling with Illustrative Maps and Plans", aimed to rein in rampant confusion within an uncoordinated system.
"There were railway hotels, office-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses; railway plans, maps, views … There was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in".
Industries no longer operate on "railway time" but on "Internet time": the increased rate of change makes monopolies harder to sustain and reduces the need for antitrust intervention".Trust on Trial", although too long, is clearly written, comprehensible to non-specialists and free of sensationalism.
I loved the idea that elves cannot exist in "railway time" – because of the fairy-tale logic that Fair Folk hate iron, but also because the stories we tell ourselves are now about technology – the magic wand we build for ourselves.
The director of military operations, Henry Hughes Wilson, cut in: "He explained that railway time-tables, unlike horses, could not be changed," wrote Taylor.
The Railway Times observed: "We have scarcely yet been educated up to that condition of social equality when lords and ladies will be content to ride side by side with Billingsgate 'fish fags' and Smithfield butchers".
I took the leap to work for the railway full time six years ago when I became general manager.
Public sector bodies will be able to bid to run Scotland's railway next time the franchises come up for renewal, the Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said.
Also we set that the comfortable range of the noise is 0 ≤ x m 4 ≤ 65 dB, the comfortable temperature range in passenger coach is 17 ≤ x m 5 ≤ 28 °C, and the comfortable railway travel time range is 0 < x m 6 ≤ 6 h.
