Talk:Railway time
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I'm concerned with the hijacking of the article by Railway Time in Britain. It should neutrally reflect all countries in the intro as well as the rest of the article. =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:03, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- As indicated when I posted notes on your talk page and also on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tamil Nadu I requested input from all those with specific knowledge on RT particularly elsewhere than Britain. I quote from my post "....... I am not I should add an expert on Railways or Time but have an interest in Local History and Science and have long been intrigued by the story of railway time. I have done some reading/ research and feel its a story worth recording. So I would very much welcome input on the page from TN project members about railway time in India and others on the at present incomplete 'article in progress' of course once loaded. Thanks"........
- I think "highjacked" is an very unfair charge. This was not an existing article but one I created from scratch, very much a first stab for others to collaborate with. As I said above I saw the article as work in progress and the story incomplete and in need of input from others. Having accessed what I have so far discovered available on the www and my local library I have found plenty about the use of the term "Railway Time" and its introduction before anywhere else in relation to Britain but to be frank I was disappointed with the little information so far about how RT took hold elsewhere in the world. What I have found I have used and referenced viz Madras and North America. I have no other access to any 'restricted access' material from India /North America or elsewhere where RT may indeed be discussed in more detail. It did strike me when reading material about India and North America the importance of the railways and use of the term 'Railway Time' was in the way it was written typically overshadowed by the story on the local and global legal establishment of "standard time" and of the setting up of multiple "time zones" but as these are separate subjects and already dealt with in their own articles it was inappropirate to stray into talking about these.
