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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Station: gwrms1206a

Close up showing one of the first GWR women ticket collectors appointed early in the First World War

Close up of image gwrms1206' showing one of the first GWR women ticket collectors appointed early in the First World War. The GWR had followed the example of the Great Central Railway in experimenting in using women to replace men in certain occupations. The article described in image 'gwrms2746' serves as a means of illustrating how ladies were seen as being very much the gentler if not the innocent sex.

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