Lisa Gibbs encourages women of all ages to consider a job in the railway

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Lisa Gibbs encourages women of all ages to consider a job in the railway

GTR has doubled the number of female train driver applicants from 413 in 2019, to 825 in the six-month period from February 2020
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Lisa Gibbs, 56, is a newly qualified train driver and encourages women of all ages to consider the career. More images available below.

This Is Not a Man’s World: GTR doubles the number of female driver applicants in less than a year, and targets 50/50 splits across new training programmes in 2021

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), the UK’s biggest rail operator which runs the Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express services, has, through a series of dedicated recruitment and marketing campaigns, successfully managed to double the number of female train driver applicants from 413 in 2019, to 825 in 2020[i]. A remarkable feat for an industry usually seen as dark, dusty and bett

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