Join me on my merry trek of old ruins, cinemas, railways and things that just catch my attention around Yorkshire and the UK. John.
View this post on Instagram Sundial at Manchester, Liverpool Road station, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. . Local time (i.e. solar time with noon being when the sun is at its highest in the sky) would have been used for train timings when the line opened. Due to local time being different across the country, e.g. London and Penzance are about 20 minutes different, this caused problems for the railways. . The Liverpool and Manchester Railway's successor the London and North Western Railway adopted London Time aka Greenwich Mean Time in 1846 for their stations on this line, and railways across Britain standardised on GMT by 1847. #sundial #liverpoolandmanchesterrailway #manchesterliverpoolroadstation #railwaytime #railwayhistory #museumofscienceandindustrymanchester A post shared by John | Exploration and history (@merrytrek) on Oct 8, 2019 at 2:31am PDT
Sundial at Manchester, Liverpool Road station, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. . Local time (i.e. solar time with noon being when the sun is at its highest in the sky) would have been used for train timings when the line opened. Due to local time being different across the country, e.g. London and Penzance are about 20 minutes different, this caused problems for the railways. . The Liverpool and Manchester Railway's successor the London and North Western Railway adopted London Time aka Greenwich Mean Time in 1846 for their stations on this line, and railways across Britain standardised on GMT by 1847. #sundial #liverpoolandmanchesterrailway #manchesterliverpoolroadstation #railwaytime #railwayhistory #museumofscienceandindustrymanchester
A post shared by John | Exploration and history (@merrytrek) on Oct 8, 2019 at 2:31am PDT
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