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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 >From: Jon Whiting <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Jon Whiting <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: women only train carriages >Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:22:24 -0000 > >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 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Juliet Jain > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:15 PM > Subject: women only train carriages > > > 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? > > Please email to the address below. > > Dr Juliet Jain > Research Associate > Centre for Transport and Society > Faculty of the Built Environment > University of the West of England > Frenchay Campus > Coldharbour Lane > BRISTOL BS16 1QY > > Tel: 0117 328 3304 > Fax: 0117 328 3899 > Email: > > www.transport.uwe.ac.uk > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This email has been independently scanned for viruses and any virus >software has been removed using McAfee anti-virus software