Miss Mary Harrison, first woman to work as a railway guard for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London district. She is flagging away a train and seems to be enjoying her job. Before the war she worked in a factory. She is one of the many hundreds of British women who are manning the railways in the place of men released for the fighting services.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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66Miss Mary Harrison, first woman to work as a railway guard for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London district. She is flagging away a train and seems to be enjoying her job. Before the war she worked in a factory. She is one of the many hundreds of British women who are manning the railways in the place of men released for the fighting services. Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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