Hi I am a new member of this group and am logging in to say "hello"!

I worked on the railway for 21 years and I am interested in most
aspects of them but my favourite subject is the history of their
workforce and I have just published the very first history of women
working on Britain's railways since 1830 (the year, not the time,
hehehe).

This Thursday the book was launched at the National Railway Museum and
I'll be talking about my research on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday morning
sometime between 10 a.m. and 1045 a.m. I have further launches coming
up, at the TUC conference, the House of Commons, the Bluebell, Quainton
Rd and the KESR and everyone is welcome.

I also have a website which you are all invited to look at:
http://www.railwaywomen.co.uk

I look forward to being a member of this fascinating group

Helena
(Hastings UK)

railway.woman@virgin.net wrote:

> Hi I am a new member of this group and am logging in to say "hello"!
>
> I worked on the railway for 21 years and I am interested in most
> aspects of them but my favourite subject is the history of their
> workforce and I have just published the very first history of women
> working on Britain's railways since 1830 (the year, not the time,
> hehehe).
>
> This Thursday the book was launched at the National Railway Museum and
> I'll be talking about my research on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday morning
> sometime between 10 a.m. and 1045 a.m. I have further launches coming
> up, at the TUC conference, the House of Commons, the Bluebell, Quainton
> Rd and the KESR and everyone is welcome.
>
> I also have a website which you are all invited to look at:
> http://www.railwaywomen.co.uk
>
> I look forward to being a member of this fascinating group
>
> Helena
> (Hastings UK)


Haven't seen your book yet, but my grandmother was a signalwoman on the
Furness Railway (at the age of only 17!) towards the end of WW1, and I
still have the letter to her from their GM giving her the sack when the
regular signalman came back from war service.

Therefore, plenty of empathy from me!

Oh no! What a terrible shame I didn't know you earlier. That's just the
kind of thing I was looking for. Please could you send me a photocopy
or a scan of the document and all the details you have of your gran's
service. When my first edition sells out (which it looks like it will!)
then I will get the chance to re-write it for the second edition.
Helena railway.woman@virgin.net

wrote :

> Hi I am a new member of this group and am logging in to say "hello"!
>
> I worked on the railway for 21 years and I am interested in most
> aspects of them but my favourite subject is the history of their
> workforce and I have just published the very first history of women
> working on Britain's railways since 1830 (the year, not the time,
> hehehe).
>



Hi, welcome to the group.

Have you any tips how the Heritage Railway of which I am a member can 
attract more women as volunteers? We seem to have loads of male volunteers 
of all ages, but the few females are all either elderly or the wives of male 
volunteers. We get young lads joining up but very few (if any) young ladies.



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Amos E Wolfe schrieb:

>  wrote :
> 
>>Hi I am a new member of this group and am logging in to say "hello"!
>>
>>I worked on the railway for 21 years and I am interested in most
>>aspects of them but my favourite subject is the history of their
>>workforce and I have just published the very first history of women
>>working on Britain's railways since 1830 (the year, not the time,
>>hehehe).
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, welcome to the group.
> 
> Have you any tips how the Heritage Railway of which I am a member can 
> attract more women as volunteers? We seem to have loads of male volunteers 
> of all ages, but the few females are all either elderly or the wives of male 
> volunteers. We get young lads joining up but very few (if any) young ladies.
> 
> 
> 


Hello,

sorry to be a little provocative but I'm seriously harmed by the 
circumstances...

why do you think heritage railways has to have a positive appeal at all?

this is not a group called uk.railway.historic but plenty of postings 
has  historic focus.

Me to wants to have more women in the business but I need them urgently 
for other jobs than posing on the locos kissing bumpers ...

I desperately need expertise in the following fields and here I have no 
doubts that women will step in with great emphasis:

- how socialising develops in (crowded) trains
- what is the minimum space req. to avoid aggression in crowed trains
- how to avoid agoraphobia
- design for safe evacuation
- important comfort factors in a train environment
- ecological compromise noise barriers - tracks as biotopes - human 
protection
and much more

please have a look at funding possibilities so we can attract women for 
the rail business.

and put the old rolling stock to scrap - we need a future for rail not a 
museum on tracks...

sorry this had to be - I'm terribly upset what amount of human resources 
are wasted with this orientation into the past...


cheers

G.fried

"Amos E Wolfe"  wrote:


>Hi, welcome to the group.
>
>Have you any tips how the Heritage Railway of which I am a member can 
>attract more women as volunteers? We seem to have loads of male volunteers 
>of all ages, but the few females are all either elderly or the wives of male 
>volunteers. We get young lads joining up but very few (if any) young ladies.



Perhaps they are put off by eccentric young men.

;-)

Tony   Polson  wrote:


>"Amos E Wolfe"  wrote:
>
>>Hi, welcome to the group.
>>
>>Have you any tips how the Heritage Railway of which I am a member can 
>>attract more women as volunteers? We seem to have loads of male volunteers 
>>of all ages, but the few females are all either elderly or the wives of male 
>>volunteers. We get young lads joining up but very few (if any) young ladies.
>
>
>Perhaps they are put off by eccentric young men.
>
>;-)



I should have said "eccentric young and not-so-young men".

;-)

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:53:09 +0100, Tony   Polson 
wrote:

>Tony   Polson  wrote:
>
>>"Amos E Wolfe"  wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, welcome to the group.
>>>
>>>Have you any tips how the Heritage Railway of which I am a member can 
>>>attract more women as volunteers? We seem to have loads of male volunteers 
>>>of all ages, but the few females are all either elderly or the wives of male 
>>>volunteers. We get young lads joining up but very few (if any) young ladies.
>>
>>Perhaps they are put off by eccentric young men.
>>
>>;-)
>
>I should have said "eccentric young and not-so-young men".


I think if you put the word around that there are lots of big strong
lads clutching *huge* adjustable spanners in preserved railway groups
the number of young women expressing interest might increase
dramatically. The not-so-young men are more of a problem though (I
write as one :-) )

Paul
--
Paul Sherwin Consulting     http://paulsherwin.co.uk

railway.woman@virgin.net wrote:

> Oh no! What a terrible shame I didn't know you earlier. That's just the
> kind of thing I was looking for. Please could you send me a photocopy
> or a scan of the document and all the details you have of your gran's
> service. When my first edition sells out (which it looks like it will!)
> then I will get the chance to re-write it for the second edition.
> Helena railway.woman@virgin.net


Little tip with usenet: don't give out your real email address 
unless you want masses of junk emails. I notice you are using 
Google Groups so you won't be able to use a "fake" email address 
(they don't allow it), but it might be better to open a 
"disposable" account like a Hotmail account, and create a new 
Google Groups account under this address.

paulSPAM@paulsherwin.co.uk (Paul Sherwin) wrote:


>I think if you put the word around that there are lots of big strong
>lads clutching *huge* adjustable spanners in preserved railway groups
>the number of young women expressing interest might increase
>dramatically. The not-so-young men are more of a problem though (I
>write as one :-) )



What on earth makes you think that adjustable spanners are attractive
to young women?

In article ,
Tony Polson   wrote:

>paulSPAM@paulsherwin.co.uk (Paul Sherwin) wrote:
>
>>I think if you put the word around that there are lots of big strong
>>lads clutching *huge* adjustable spanners in preserved railway groups
>>the number of young women expressing interest might increase
>>dramatically. The not-so-young men are more of a problem though (I
>>write as one :-) )
>
>
>What on earth makes you think that adjustable spanners are attractive
>to young women?


It's obvious, certain wenches like wrenches ...

Nick
-- 
http://www.leverton.org/                      ... So express yourself