I think a version of this story is included in Derek Howse's "Greenwich Time and Longitude" book, in relation to the shutting down of the telegraph-based time service from Greenwich. See here, on page 115:
https://archive.org/details/GreenwichTime
He even gives a reference for the story.
David.
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