I am sure from the very earliest days of the railways passengers must have done work on the train. It is, some might say, a tradition of t...

Whenever a railway company decided to employ a woman as a clerk before 1914, the newspapers always described the event as an ‘experiment’ or...

While I have written frequently about female clerks on Britain’s railways before 1914, I have never penned a complete history. Therefore, th...

Mid-way through last year, I looked at the first sixteen female ledger clerks employed at the London and North Western Railway’s (L&NWR)...

What a couple of years it has been. As I write, my Turnip Rail website hosts 213 posts on a range of railway history topics. However, despit...

There is no doubt that before 1914, on average, railwaywomen earned less than their male colleagues. However, the wage gap between the gende...

My last post discussed the research I have done on some of Britain’s earliest railwaywomen. They were employed by four companies in the 184...

I have repeatedly commented that Victorian railwaywomen are little studied by historians. Indeed, men’s dominance of the workforce has meant...

Before the 1880s the number employment options for women on Britain's railways were small and they could become charwomen or office clea...

In the last post ( here ) I looked at the first sixteen women to be employed in clerical positions on Britain’s railways between 1874 and 18...

I recently wrote about the first fifteen female clerks appointed by the London and North Western Railway’s (L&NWR) at its Curzon Street ...