Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Women as Railway Servants. [ARTICLE]

Women as Railway Servants.

A signalwoman has been employed on the line between Morebath and Bampton, near the Somerset border of Devon, for the last 23 years, and another at Lee Crossing, near Minehead. But women are employed on the railways in other places besides the West country. Rosemount station, on the Caledonian railway, and Langford, Essex, have station-mistresses. At Braystones,, on the Furness railway, and at Dovenby station, Cumberland, there are women who not only manage the signals, but issue tickets and do all the work in connection with the trains. More women probably are employed on the railways in Russia than in any other European country. There are computed to be between 20,000 and 30,000 women working 6n the Russian state railways. They act as gate-keep-ers, clerks and telegraphers. Their salaries are small. Women attendants at the stations receive only about £4 ss. a year, with free lodging and certain extras. Women clerks receive about £4B a year.—Family Herald.