Female train drivers

 · A female train driver uses the phone inside the cab of a train in the maintenance depot on Line 4 (Filyovskaya Line) of the Moscow metro. Photograph: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS. A female train Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.  · As the first female suburban light rail train driver in Russia, Lysenko-Saltykova, 25, is one of a small, but growing band of women doing jobs that were off limits for decades until January, when Author: Samantha Berkhead.  · Join Metro train driver Emma Ryan as she gets behind the controls on the Sandringham line.

Maggie Rolfe, Train Driver and Vicky Badham-May, Trainee Driver. Little girls never used to aspire to be train drivers, but times have changed. A new wave of women, recruited into MTR Crossrail in response to concerns expressed in October by ASLEF’s General Secretary, Mick Whelan, about the lack of train driver diversity, are now inspiring young ladies across the UK to discover the “most fun job you’ll ever have” (said by Vicky Badham-May, Trainee Driver). Join Metro train driver Emma Ryan as she gets behind the controls on the Sandringham line. On Southern in , only 17 per cent of the train driver intake was female — in , it’ll be 30 per cent, which is a huge rise,” she explains. McGillivray has been a part of Southern Rail.

Teresa Carey becomes the first woman to join what has previously been the all male profession of train drivers. Saskia Hjaltason (Denmark), Arshdeep Kaur (Sydney), Sofia Dorofeeva (Moscow), and Güler Baran (Istanbul) are four women challenging perceptions and making. Karen Harrison (16 November – May ) was the first woman in Britain to be appointed as a train driver, during which time she was an active trade.