Woman wearing Victorian Railways stewardess uniform standing in doorway of railway carriage.

Victorian Railways ‘Spirit of Progress’ Stewardess.
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Image: PROV

Women wearing telephone head sets sitting in front of wall of cables.

Victorian Railways telephonists answering inward public calls at the head office exchange, 1956.
(Victorian Railways Newsletter, July 1956, front cover).
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Two women and three men dressed in railway station staff uniforms posed on platform.

Victorian Railways Porteress P. Kingwill (left) and Porteress E. Tonen (right) with South Yarra Station staff, Dec 1955
(VR NewsLetter Jan 1956, p 14)
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Woman wearing dress seated next to railway line. “Trespassers prosecuted” sign and railway tracks visible behind woman.

My grandmother, Kitty Windsor, was gatekeeper at the Springvale Road Level Crossing, Tunstall in the 1930s/40s and inspired my research on Women on the Victorian Railways.
(Image K Windsor, family archives)
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