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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: en-us">OVERSEAS,
women are often employed as crossing keepers and occasionally have control of a
small roadside signal cabin as well; but in this country there are only a few
instances where level crossings are in charge of females.</SPAN></P>
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is found on the Great Western Railway, at Leigh Wood crossing, Crowcombe, where
Mrs Hill has the distinction of being one of the few women concerned in traffic
operations upon a British railway ...</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: en-us">When
employed by the Great Western Company at Chard station, Mrs Hill's husband met
with a serious accident in 1880. He was transferred to Leigh Wood crossing,
Crowcombe, in the famous hunting district of the Quantock Hills, so that he
might the more speedily recover; but was never again fit for duty. His wife
pluckily undertook his work on the line and performed it so well that, ever
since his death, which occurred in the following year, the company have allowed
her to remain in charge of the crossing – an act of kindly consideration for
which she is deeply grateful.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: en-us">From
“The Railway Magazine”, Oct. 1913</SPAN></P>
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