How the first female Tube driver paved the way for others The first female Tube driver paved the way for more women on the London Underground.
Almost ten years later, she stepped into the driver’s cabin on the London Underground as the first female driver.
Hannah Dadds has been etched into British transport history as the first female Tube driver.
Dadds opened doors for other women to become drivers when she started her career with the London Transport in 1969 as a ‘stationwoman.’.
Eventually in 1975 when the Sex Discrimination Act passed, women could no longer be blocked from taking up roles like driving the Tube.
