Summary: Scenes show women performing complete range of jobs on the Southern Railway, while commentator describes what they do, and what they did before the war.
Description: Version of LADIES ONLY (BTF 106) intended for American audiences. Reel 1 (675 ft): Women cleaning locomotives. Policewoman directing traffic at Waterloo. Women porters. Woman station announcer. Women ticket collectors. Behind scenes work - women welding carriages, grinding, drilling, milling, riveting. Attaching chairs to sleepers, blacksmith work, driving trucks.
Reel 2 (472 ft): Women checking gauges. Women stripping bark for telegraph poles. Concrete works. Painting bridge (identified incorrectly as over Thames - see MH/149). Crane driving. Working on munitions.
Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company)
Monks, Mary Welsh (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: SOUTHERN RAILWAY (regiment/service)
Keywords: economics, British national - employment: women railway workers (object name)
GB, England & London, SE <Waterloo Station> (geography)
(concept)
