When Women Ran The Railways

[Radiorails]

This looks like a great piece of historical anecdotes. I wonder of Birmingham and the area around it is mentioned? I thought it fitted inn well with the BBC factory programme mentioned in another thread as some of the ladies mention how the preferred the railways to factory work.
It will, I am sure be available from the National Railway Museum but I daresay all the other outlets will have or get it.
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16696371.books-when-women-ran-the-railways/

 

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The link goes to a report by a Stephen Lewis on the book "Female Railway Workers in World War II” by Susan Major. It is not clear whether the remark below is his own interpretation or that of the author...

"And just as the relationship between the classes was changed for good, so in a way was the relationship of the sexes."

In the BBC programme “Back in Time for the Factory,” set around 1968 and some 20 years later, it shows that women were still treated as “second class citizens” and that in light of the strike of female workers at the Ford Dagenham Plant the notion of equal pay was pushed.

Of course another 50 years on and we still don’t have equal pay!

 

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August 1944, Birmingham Gazette

 

[devonjim]

One of those 135,000 was a neighbour, Mrs Guest, I think, who in 1945ish was a train guard. Based at Tyseley and was to be seen on N. Warwickshire line.

 

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Not sure where to put this, but it is concerning women and WWII and from the Evening Despatch of October 1942...

 

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From the Illustrated London News of July 1940. (When Women ran the Birmingham buses)