United Kingdom
No longer provided, the last "Ladies Only" accommodation in British trains was withdrawn in 1977, a combination of different train types being introduced and equality legislation which prevented gender-specific provisions.
On the old type of local trains, no longer operating, individual compartments of the traditional type were right across the carriage (typically 9 or so per vehicle), with no through gangway, bench seats for 5 or on each side, and access only through many individual side doors. Because of concerns from individual women passengers who might be left with men in the compartment as passengers alighted, a few compartments (typically the end one in each train unit) was so allocated. At a time when No Smoking compartments were denoted by red window labels, and First Class by blue labels, the Ladies Only compartments were shown by green window labels.
Read more about this topic: Women-only Passenger Car
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