PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- This reliance on railway time eventually spread beyond the platform altogether, as towns and cities adopted the same standard for their public clocks, changing how entire nations kept time.
- Passengers quickly came to depend on these printed timetables, arriving at platforms according to the stated departure time rather than any local sense of the hour.
- To resolve the confusion, railway companies adopted a single standardized time across their entire network and published timetables based on that uniform clock.
- This inconsistency became a serious problem once trains began running between towns, because a schedule printed in one town's time was meaningless to passengers and stationmasters working from another.
- Before railways connected distant towns, each town kept its own local time based on the sun, so noon in one place might be several minutes removed from noon in a neighboring town.