Tag: WW2

  • Railway Horses 1 – Railway Women and Horses

    Railway Horses 1 – Railway Women and Horses

    Much of the history of railways is the history of men, but from the outset, women worked on the railways. As with so many other jobs, it was wartime when women came into their own. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, 25,000 women were employed on the railways. By 1944, they…