Berkshire Stations Gallery

Reading Station, 1967

A view of Reading station, Berkshire in 1967, looking at the outside of the station from the south west side. A number of cars and delivery vehicles are parked along the front of the station building

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1960s, 1967, Berkshire, Reading, Station, Station Building

Women workers in the Permanent Way Dept at Reading, 1943

Three ladies from the Permanent Way Department are pictured here at Reading in April 1943 off-loading wooden blocks from a wagon. This photograph is an official Company image, with GWR Chief Engineers Office, Aldermaston. Photographic Department stamped on the reverse. The photo may have been taken to show the work of women during the war, but equally it might have been taken to show joint working between the GWR and LMS whose wagon features in the image. Inter-railway working between the railway companies was actively encouraged by the Government during the war as a means of maintaining an efficient and economic rail service, so staff and rolling stock worked across the different networks in a way that had not been seen previously