THE FIRST WOMAN GUARD ON BRITISH RAIL

The type of trains I worked on






The back of a 4-SUB unit, Clapham Junction.
It was the guard's job to place the tail lamp before every journey

Photo copyright Garry Brookes

 

Some of the 508s and 455s that I worked in the early 1980s

Photo copyright Garry Brookes

4vep

A 4 CEP unit I used to work on.

Photo copyright Colin Duff

 

A VEP unit - the trains I worked to Guildford, Portsmouth and Eastleigh from 1978 to 1987

Photo copyright Garry Brookes

 

Waterloo Station, 11 March 1978, two weeks before I took out my first train alone.
Pictured are two Class 33 locos, on which I sometimes acted as second "man".

Photo copyright Garry Brookes


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