The railway timetable was only useful if people all used the same time scale.
Le calendrier des chemins de fer n'a été utile que si les gens utilisaient tous la même échelle de temps.
It rarely mattered if your watch was five minutes faster than your neighbours but the invention of the trains and the railway timetable soon changed all that.
Il importait rarement si votre montre était cinq minutes plus rapide que vos voisins, mais l'invention des trains et l'horaire des chemins de fer ont rapidement changé tout cela.
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