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Description: | Many Londoners enlisted to fight in the Second World War. Many others had to stay at home to carry out vital war work. Public transport employees were often exempt from the draft because their jobs were considered to be protected occupations.
However, many volunteered for organisations such as the Air Raid Precaution (A.R.P.) units. In the units members were trained to deal with air raids and their consequences.
The staff here are from the London Transport Permanent Way department, responsible for track maintenance. The photo was taken on a training exercise in 1940 at Neasden. Dressed in helmets and gas masks, the A.R.P. members are dismantling track. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 27 Feb 1940 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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