GFR Projects

GFR SCHOOL

GFR School – a qualification program that led to the formation of professional skills for a career as a locomotive driver, train conductor or wagon technical inspector, as a result of the assimilation of a set of principles, theories and practices established in the professional qualification plan. GFR covered all tuition expenses and offered employment contracts from the moment the participants were approved for the training program.
The GFR school trained people who wanted a job in the railway field:• LOCOMOTIVE MECHANIC
• FEMALE LOCOMOTIVE MECHANIC
• TRAIN DRIVER
• WAGON TECHNICAL INSPECTOR
• WAGON SHIFTER
• STOREKEEPER

A GFR School program: the “Women Mechanics” project

Women train drivers: equal opportunities in railway professions

It was only over 140 years after the first passenger trains appeared that women had access to the position of train driver and currently in most countries, women represent less than 2-3% in a profession that was long forbidden to them. However, women are starting to be present, they also drive high-speed trains and heavy freight trains, they are encouraged to enter the profession and they are also active in countries where the job is risky.