Standardized time became vital for seafarers and irresistible to
corporate interests, such was the ease it could offer trade, transport
and electric communication. But it took longer to colonize the minds of
the general public. During the British “railway mania” of the 1840s,
around 6,000 miles of railway lines were constructed across the country.
Investors (including Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and the Brontë
sisters) climbed over each other to acquire rail company shares in a
frenzy of freewheeling capitalism that caused one of the biggest
economic bubbles in British history. Companies like Great Western
Railway and Midland Railway began to enforce Greenwich Mean Time inside
their stations and on their trains to make timetables run efficiently.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/
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