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TICKET COLLECTORS


 

"The ticket collector is often exposed to the calumnies of a rough element
which passes through the ticket gates, and this is the objectionable part
of the position, unsuitable to the fair sex."
The Railway Review 12 June 1915



Ticket Collectors, London Bridge, c.1915
The Suffragette May 1915

Ticket collectors, Waterloo, LSWR, c.1915

Ticket collector, London Victoria

Underground Railways Ticket Collector Florence Wallace, c.1916

Cannon Street Ticket Collecting Staff 1918.
Violet Cecilia White (1895-1983), known as "The Walking Timetable",
is the third seated woman from the right.




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