railway time

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations. historical,uncountable
    — The disparate time zones of Britain were unified under 'railway time' - as Dickens famously observed in Dombey: 'It was if the sun itself had given in.'
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