Alex Coomber
Women played a vital role during both world wars. Apart from driving and firing steam locomotives. They were hard at work all over the country's railway network in jobs that were previously considered the preserve of men. Here's a group of women locomotive cleaners pose for the camera sitting on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway High Flyer Class 4-4-2 locomotive No. 1406 at Low Moor Engine Shed near Bradford on 23rd March 1917.