RAILWAY WOMEN IN WARTIME 

A Unique Collection of Historic Photographs
and Personal Reminiscences




When railwaymen joined the forces in 1914 and 1939, many thousands of British women were recruited to replace them. Thousands of women performed manual, uniformed and engineering work which in peacetime was open only to men. Women took on their jobs and began to increase their personal finance while supporting themselves.

They were porters, signalwomen, guards, workshop-women, goods porters, trackwomen and they served the railways for up to six years. Some even stayed on after the war.

Click on the images to see photographs of railwaywomen during the two world wars.

Railwaywomen
in the First War
Railwaywomen
in the Second War


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Railway Women in Wartime is delighted
to have won the coveted IRS award from
The Institute of Railway Studies
at the University of York.

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