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No offence was intended by calling you “Mate”. I wouldn’t ask for you to “do my research for me”. I’ve spent a lot of time trawling through Wikipedia pages and skimming through books and reports of accidents. When I couldn’t find any mentions of local time causing an accident I came to the...

This story sounds fascinating. I’d love to read more about the local time aspects of it. I read the Wikipedia page and a Few other sources online, but can’t find any mention of local time confusions there. Could you point me to the source where you read about this please?

I wanted to say thanks for all of your interesting and reasoned debate. It seems that there are multiple instances in which a confusion between local times might have been the cause of an accident (in combination with interval timing), but none that anyone knows of which have ben directly...

Exactly the point. time interval working is one thing, local time (i.e. time being recorded differently at different stations) is another. Specifically I am interested in accidents which occur due to the latter, although there don't seem to any. That's a fine answer if that's the case.

The original question is about local time, not interval working. If there are accidents which are cuased by a combination of local time and interval woring this would be interesting. THanks for your suggestions.

Mate, this is not hugely helpful. If you know of an example in which local time caused an acciddent then please post a link. Back up your claims with some evidence.

Thanks, this is very useful to know. I suppose there are events when the running of the trains don't just depend on a single dispatcher with a Master Clock though. Several of the examples I've read about involve trains running behind schedule or not going into the correct siding on a single...

This is the dogma, but I've yet to find a single example online. If you know of one, or a book which contains on please share.

Thanks, I didn't spot this forum until after I posted in the other, so I wasn't sure, but thanks for sorting it out for me.

I've often read that railway time was introduced in the UK and the US because of a number of accidents caused by non-standard time. However, I've never found any description of an accident which specifically makes reference to a disparity in local times causing an accident. Please, if you know...