Updated research published in June, which also identified ASLEF members from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and those under the age of 35, revealed that the figure for women has now reached 6.5 per cent. In 2012, a report produced by the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) on behalf of the train driver union ASLEF, found that 4.2 per cent of the union’s membership across train (TOC) and freight operating companies (FOC) were women. ![]() ![]() ![]() “And so, it seems the traditional male preserves are falling thick and fast to the invasion of the female sex. The three-minute report ends with John disembarking to walk down the station platform at Williton for a piece to camera. “You’re able to fit it in around all the housework and so forth?” he added. “They think it’s rather super actually,” she replied. “Amy, I know you’ve got two young boys, what do they think about mum being a train driver?” he asked from inside the driver’s cab. In a television news report from 1980, a reporter named John Doyle joined a train driver for a short ride on the West Somerset Railway. The interview, which took place three years after Karen Harrison became the first woman train driver in the UK, was with a woman called Amy, and gender was the big talking point.
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