The railway brought us sensible time zones the world over, but also some weird anomalies

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

Train travel in the dark and trips to the British seaside

Q What is the coldest winter the UK has experienced? A In more recent times the Met Office points to the winter of 1963, which was the coldest since 1740, with temperatures dropping to as low as -20°C

Now the clocks have gone back and we are deeper into winter, those of us who drive all year will undoubtedly find we are having to do so when it is dark – a fact that some of us won’t necessarily reli

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm