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A woman in a blue button up uniform standing on a train platform.

"I was surprised that I got the opportunity at the younger age that I did … it's been the best thing. I'm really proud of it."

"I had come from an office job where I wore a skirt and heels and daily make up and I thought, 'How am I going to fit into this world?'"
Ms Sempf said.

Serious woman with dark glasses, blue shirt uniform, at the controls in small cubicle, windows, looks ahead.

"Women can't be what they can't see,"
Ms Currey said.

A headshot of a smiling blonde woman in an black shirt, wears glasses.

Three smiling women in blue uniforms stand at the door of a train at a platform.

"You never get tired of them … it's a beautiful journey we love coming into Brisbane at about 9am."

"I think a lot of people think we just sit up the front and press some buttons and it drives itself because there's no steering wheel, but every day is a challenge,"
she said.

"A proud moment was when my eight-year-old niece recently told me that she wanted to be a train driver one day like me."
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