List of railway industry occupations
Encyclopedia
This is a list of railway industry
occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles merely run on a prepared surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks they run on...
occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity.
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Engineering
- Chief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock...
- Locomotive Superintendent (Chief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock...
) - Locomotive engineerLocomotive engineerA locomotive engineer may refer to:*Railroad engineer, a person who operates a locomotive, usually called an engine or train driver outside North America*Locomotive builder, a person who designs and builds locomotives...
Train
- Railroad engineerRailroad engineerA railroad engineer, locomotive engineer, train operator, train driver or engine driver is a person who drives a train on a railroad...
(engine driver) - Boilerman
- Chief firemanChief firemanChief fireman — is a senior officer of a firefighting crew, the driver of fire car. In imperial Prussia, the title was known as brandmeister and was the police officer, the chief of one of city fire-fighting crews...
- Conductor (transportation)Conductor (transportation)A conductor is a member of a railway train's crew that is responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve the actual operation of the train. The title of conductor is most associated with railway operations in North America, but the role of conductor is common to railways...
- SecondmanSecondmanA Secondman or Second man is a railway employee who assists the driver of a train with his duties. For this reason the term driver's assistant is also used...
- BrakemanBrakemanA brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job it was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The advent of through brakes on trains made this role redundant, although the name lives on in the United States where brakemen carry out a variety of functions...
- Guard
Revenue
- Ticket controller (transportation)
- Revenue Protection InspectorRevenue Protection InspectorRevenue Protection Inspector or Revenue Protection Officer is the job title given to staff who patrol different forms of public transport issuing penalty fares to passengers who travel without a valid ticket. These titles are principally used in the United Kingdom...
- Ticket inspector
Operations
- Train dispatcherTrain dispatcherA train dispatcher is employed by a railroad to direct and facilitate the movement of trains over an assigned territory, which is usually part, or all, of a railroad operating division. In Canada the train dispatcher is known as the rail traffic controller...
- DispatcherDispatcherDispatchers are communications personnel responsible for receiving and transmitting pure and reliable messages, tracking vehicles and equipment, and recording other important information...
- Freight ConductorFreight ConductorA freight conductor is a person who is employed by a railroad. The freight conductor is the lead employee assigned to a freight train, and is responsible for the smooth operation of the assignment.- Freight conductors specialties :...
- Signalman (rail)Signalman (rail)A signalman or signaller is an employee of a railway transport network who operates the points and signals from a signal box in order to control the movement of trains.- History :...
Maintenance of way
- Bridge inspector
- Gandy dancerGandy dancerGandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines....
- Length runner
- Railway lubricator
- Section gang
- Signal maintainer
- Track inspector
- TraqueroTraqueroA traquero is a railroad track worker, especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker . The word derives from "traque", Spanglish for "track".While the U.S...
- PlatelayerPlatelayerA platelayer or trackman is a railway employee whose job is to inspect and maintain the permanent way of a railway installation.The term derives from the plates used to build plateways, an early form of railway....
- Navvy (navigator)NavvyNavvy is a shorter form of navigator or navigational engineer and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects...
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- Length runner
- Locomotive Superintendent (Chief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical EngineerChief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock...
) - Locomotive engineerLocomotive engineerA locomotive engineer may refer to:*Railroad engineer, a person who operates a locomotive, usually called an engine or train driver outside North America*Locomotive builder, a person who designs and builds locomotives...
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- Railroad engineerRailroad engineerA railroad engineer, locomotive engineer, train operator, train driver or engine driver is a person who drives a train on a railroad...
(engine driver) - Railway lubricator
- Revenue Protection InspectorRevenue Protection InspectorRevenue Protection Inspector or Revenue Protection Officer is the job title given to staff who patrol different forms of public transport issuing penalty fares to passengers who travel without a valid ticket. These titles are principally used in the United Kingdom...
- Road foreman of enginesRoad Foreman of EnginesA road foreman of engines is the traditional title of the person in charge of and the supervisor of, a locomotive engineer. An engineer who wishes to enter the management ranks on a railroad becomes a road foreman of engines. His job is the overall supervision and to instruct, discipline, train and...
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- Section gang
- SecondmanSecondmanA Secondman or Second man is a railway employee who assists the driver of a train with his duties. For this reason the term driver's assistant is also used...
- Signal maintainer
- Signalman (rail)Signalman (rail)A signalman or signaller is an employee of a railway transport network who operates the points and signals from a signal box in order to control the movement of trains.- History :...
- Station agentStation agentIn many countries, the station agent is the person in charge of a railway station Variants of station agents can also work at other transit terminals such as airports, ferry terminals, etc....
- Station masterStation masterThe station master was the person in charge of railway stations, in the United Kingdom and some other countries, before the modern age. He would manage the other station employees and would have responsibility for safety and the efficient running of the station...
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- Ticket controller (transportation)
- Track inspector
- Train dispatcherTrain dispatcherA train dispatcher is employed by a railroad to direct and facilitate the movement of trains over an assigned territory, which is usually part, or all, of a railroad operating division. In Canada the train dispatcher is known as the rail traffic controller...
- TraqueroTraqueroA traquero is a railroad track worker, especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker . The word derives from "traque", Spanglish for "track".While the U.S...