about nine o'clock
The compartment was illuminated by one lamp , and in the Bleakridge Tunnel this lamp expired . Everything reminded him of his youth . In twenty minutes he was leaving Turnhill station and entering the town . It was about nine o'clock , and colder than winters of the period usually are . The first thing he saw was an electric tram , and the second thing he saw was another electric tram . In Toby 's time there were no trams at Turnhill , and the then recently-introduced steam-trams between Bursley and Longshaw , long since superseded , were regarded as the final marvel of science as applied to traction . And now there were electric trams at Turnhill !