26/10/2025
Hope you're enjoying an extra hour in bed this morning! Did you know that Greenwich Mean Time only became standard across the UK with the coming of the railways? Before then, different towns ran on their own 'local time'.
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Discover how Greenwich Mean Time spread from nautical time to the legal time in Britain with the coming of the railways