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Description: | Before becoming a train driver for London Underground, Hannah Dadds had to qualify as a train guard.
Train guards were also emergency drivers. If anything happened to the train driver or there was an accident, guards like Hannah had to be able to move the train. Guards went to training school to learn all about the working of the trains and how to drive them. There was more training if the guard then wanted to qualify as a driver.
Hannah trained in 1978. At the time, some men were not happy about women working as drivers, and they were not very supportive.
This is an example Hannah remembers from her training. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Communities Work | Temporal: | 1970-1979 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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