Railway Workers Gallery

Gara Bridge Station, Devon

A member of station staff stands on the down platform at Gara Bridge Station looking south towards Kingsbridge. The level crossing gates behind him are closed to rail traffic, and beside them stands the signal box which controlled the flow of traffic on the single line route and the passing loop on which the station was located

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Plympton Station, Devon, c.1920

A view of Plympton Station, Devon, c.1920, showing a few passengers on the platforms and the station buildings.
Plympton station opened in June 1848 as part of the South Devon Railway, but closed to passengers in 1959

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1920, 1920s, Colebrook Station, Devon, Disused, Disused Station, Plympton, Plympton Station, Station

Female stewardess, 1917

A Dining Car Waitress in her crisp white apron stands in the doorway of dining car No. 9546 on Platform 2, Paddington Station in 1917. Rail travel during the war was not just restricted to essential journeys. Travel for pleasure continued according to Mr Guy Calthrop, General Manager of the London and North Western Railway, who was asked to represent all of the railway companies before the Man Power Distribution Board. In his report of October 1916 Mr Calthrop stated that there is an enormous amount of "joy-riding" on railways at the present time'; and facilities such as on-board dining for long journeys were as integral to the service the GWR offered its customers as before the war began

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