Engine cleaners (?) at Upperby Depot, Carlisle

Engine cleaners (?) at Upperby Depot, Carlisle

Posed photograph of men and women on and around a railway locomotive - they appear to all be railway workers.

Photograph which possibly shows women engine-cleaners, who would have been drafted in to undertake this work during World War One.

Anonymous photographer

Cumbria Image Bank http://www.cumbriaimagebank.org.uk/

Lancaster University

1918

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National Railways Museum website Railways and the First World War: http://www.nrm.org.uk/RailwayStories/worldwarone

Twentieth century, World War One.

Photograph