With its prerequisite coat of deep filth, there's plenty of work to keep these diligent women going on this LNER 4-6-0 freight loco. With the men away at war, women performed some of the grottiest tasks in the railway work rota to help keep the trains running. Women working on train cleaning engine. Women seen here cleaning a locomotive and carry out maintenance to the wheels at a loco shed near London. During the war many women undertook these types of occupations freeing up the men for the armed forces. Stunning Photo Gifts From Buy Iconic Newspaper Photos at - Mirror-Photos.co.uk
