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Mary Wellstead, telegraphist

Earlier this year, we had a road trip in WA, and the furtherest east we got to was Bremer Bay, at the end of a frayed tarmac road running through scrub for 60km. It was a place so remote it … Continue reading

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Ladies only compartments

Predictably, assaults such as the case of Fanny Elizabeth Bull and Catherine Scragg led to bursts of moral outrage in the newspapers of the time and calls for the railway companies to provide Ladies Only compartments on their trains. While … Continue reading

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