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A “FLYING SCOTSWOMAN” train with an all-female crew ran from Edinburgh to London today ahead of International Women’s Day.
The LNER service is being rebranded for the duration of March to encourage more women to consider a career in the rail industry.
Female platform staff greeted passengers at Edinburgh Waverley, from where the train set off at 5.40am, bound for Newcastle and London King’s Cross.
Train driver Kelly Measures, who has 11 years’ experience in the job, said it was a “proud moment” for her to be on board the service with her three sisters, all from Peterborough, who also work in the rail industry as their father did.
The 32-year-old said: “I’m a driver, which is predominantly male-oriented, but there’s more and more women coming through.
“There’s not as much difference as there used to be.”
Some 42 per cent of LNER employees are women, but according to a company poll, 85 per cent of working-age women in Britain have not considered a career on the railways.
The Flying Scotswoman service was one of three trains run entirely by female staff today, with the others operated by Southeastern and Great Western Railway.
