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THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Audrey Licence (r) and sister trainees at signalling training school.
Audrey Licence (r) and a sister trainee in the signalling training school canteen.
Audrey Licence (l) and a sister trainee, on-the-job training at Howden Clough signal box.
Doreen Stevens, the signalwoman at Collingburne Ducis on the Midland &
Doreen Stevens, the signalwoman at Collingburne Ducis on the Midland &
Thelma Durnford (left) and Signalwoman Doreen Stevens
Mrs. Violet Holah, Signalwoman. Speeton LNER, 1942
Freda Jenkins, signalwoman at Loftus Box, LNER 1942.
Cosy looking signalbox. Location unknown.
Signalbox Train Register Recorder, or "Box Girl"
Howden Clough box an ex-GNR route between Dewsbury and Bradford. The box was very close to a bridge
carrying the GNR over the LNWR that route being between Huddersfield and Leeds..
South Western Junction Railway section of the GWR, with Stationmaster Ron Millard at Savernake Low Level.
South Western Junction Railway section of the GWR, with the crew of the Marlborough branch engine.
Collingbourne, GWR c.1944.
"After my final exams a man congratulated me and said I'd passed.
I gave him a beaming smile which faded rapidly as he told me, 'Of course,
you know you could be prosecuted or had up for manslaughter if something goes wrong'.
After that he shook my hand, and I left."
Phyllis Dewhurst, New Hey Box, Rochdale.
Location identified by Frank Archer, to whom many thanks.
Further information about Mrs. Holah, and the men in this photo can be found at
The Signal Box web site.
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