The Oxford Companion to British Railway History (Simmons and Biddle) OUP
1997 page 566 has a useful summary of ladies only coaches. I think some of
the last ones in mainline use ran in the non-corridor stock into Kings
Cross. When I last visited the South Devon Railway( two years ago) they
still had the signs on one of the compartments although they weren't
enforcing it!
Phil Ashworth
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>Subject: Re: women only train carriages
>Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:22:24 -0000
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>MessageI am only in my very late 50s and I remember these compartments
>existing. I don't think they occupied whole carriages.
>
>As a small child I remember being in one with my mother, and a railway
>official was trying to remove a man from the compartment and read out
>details from the Railway regulations, so this may be a source of
>information. This was on the train from London Euston to Northampton.
>
>Jon
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> I was recently informed by a lady in her 70s that there used to be
>'women only' railway carriages in britain. Can anyone confirm this, and
>point me to any references about this?
>
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