Pictures from the past

The Railway Police formed 3 years before the Metropolitan Police in 1829. But it lost much of its workforce to the services during the Great War (Over 54% of the Midland Railway Police joined-up) and Special Constables and Policewomen were recruited for the first time. In 1916 the Great Eastern Railway recruited several women to work at Liverpool Street Station. This was followed in 1917 by the North Eastern Railway Police recruiting a whole section of women.

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(PW Betty Marshall) Sergeant Betty Marshall at Waterloo Station 1960s	Railway Policewomen at Victoria	A British Transport Commission Policewoman at Glasgow Central Station makes some pocketbook notes.
Possibly the first group photographs of policewomen ever taken.		Plicewoman giving directions in a waiting rooom.