Railways: The Making of a Nation

BBC Four HD

1:15 AM to 1:45 AM

Tuesday 30 September

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Liz McIvor explores how Britain's expanding rail network was the spark to a social revolution, starting in the 1800s and continuing through to modern times. She begins by examining the introduction of precise railway schedules and timetables that recognised Greenwich Mean Time. However, in a country made up of separate local time zones, with clocks in the west set several minutes behind those in the east, not everyone was keen to step in line