It's one product, sure.
Arguably more important is standard time.
Before the railways towns ran on local-noon time, so the railways and their timetables required time to be synchronized across regions.
It's one product, sure.
Arguably more important is standard time.
Before the railways towns ran on local-noon time, so the railways and their timetables required time to be synchronized across regions.
The most important product a train system offers is getting you from A to B.
The GP is referring to the very early days of railway - only in 1840, the railway emergence led to standardized time [1] to make drafting timetables and schedules easier.
The benefits and downsides are something that we still experience two centuries later, all thanks to the railways.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
And yet, the most important product provided by the railways is getting you (or stuff) from A to B.