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RAILWAYWOMEN
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
STATION STAFF
"Some of the women who have taken up these men's jobs
disappeared quite suddenly from their old places of employment...
a young woman had failed to show up at the works, and enquiries showed
that she had been engaged as a porter... the pay for this work was
20s as compared to 14s in her former position."
Daily Despatch 27 April 1915
Luggage porters c.1916
Porters at Marylebone c.1915
The Suffragette May 1915
"The female porters are drawn from occupations where they have been
well-trained in rather heavy work, and they are well able to tackle
the luggage-moving work that comes their way".
Westminster Gazette, 24 February 1916
Women porters on the LMS, Elmton & Cresswell, Derbyshire.
Women porters on the LMS, Belper, Derbyshire.
Stationmaster Purvis (in top hat) and his porters. Harrogate, 1917
Parcel porter driving a Railodok truck, c.1916, Great Central Railway
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