A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle. The driver is in charge of and is responsible for the mechanical...
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identified as Harry Smith and Danny Pembroke. A 16th man, an unnamed retired train driver, was also present. With careful planning based on inside information...
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One-person operation (redirect from Driver-only Train Operation)
driver-only operation (DOO), one-man operation (OMO), single person train operation (SPTO), or one-person train operation (OPTO), similarly to driver-controlled...
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Conductor (rail) (redirect from Train guard)
service personnel, and is responsible for the movement of the train. The engineer (driver) takes direction from the conductor. The portman (station master)...
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senior-most female locopilot (train driver) of the Indian Railways in India,. She became India's first female train driver in 1988. She drove the first...
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Automatic train operation (ATO) is a method of operating trains automatically where the driver is not required or is required for supervision at most....
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The Train Driver is a play by South African playwright Athol Fugard. The play revolves around the character of Roelf Visagie, a white train driver who...
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Rail suicide (redirect from Suicide by train)
that may extend far beyond the site, a costly economic inconvenience. Train drivers in particular, effectively forced into being accomplices to the suicide...
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compartments, where a train driver controls the train's operation.[globalize][better source needed] They may also be installed on unpowered train cars known as...
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Driver Dan's Story Train (Arabic: كابتن كريم وقطار الحكايات, Captain Karim Qitar Al Hekayat (Captain Karim and the Story Train)) is a children's television...
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railway" by train drivers, after a series of accidents where military vehicles strayed on the tracks or stray bullets hit trains. The train involved in...
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territory Positive train control Railroad Safety Appliance Act Category:Runaway train disasters "Runaway Indian train travels 70km without driver". BBC. February...
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who was taking pictures of the train. Safety concerns have increased in recent years as tourism has grown. Train drivers have reported making emergency...
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Token (railway signalling) (redirect from Train staff key)
In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single...
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track-side camera that shows all thirteen train cars derailing and four overturning. On 28 July 2013, the train's driver, Francisco José Garzón Amo, was charged...
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an electric vehicle driver Bus driver Truck driver SS Empire Driver or SS Driver, a cargo ship Driver (sail), a type of sail Driver Group, an Australian...
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Railway signalling (redirect from Train detection)
mounted flagman on a horse preceded some early trains. Hand and arm signals were used to direct the "train drivers". Foggy and poor-visibility conditions later...
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pulled the emergency brake, causing it to stop near the signal point. The train driver later stated that the brake chain had been pulled multiple times, as...
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signal to train drivers. It is placed on the top of the rail, usually secured with two lead straps, one on each side. When the wheel of the train passes...
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at which the train can travel safely using line-side signalling; if the train runs any faster, it will not be possible for the train driver to safely read...
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the railroad industry for a type of train driver in rail yards with switcher locomotives or a type of truck driver in similar work with terminal tractors...
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2006. Former neighbours said he was a croupier who had once worked as a train driver for London Underground and after being made redundant from the casino...
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List of rail accidents (2020–present) (redirect from Vila-seca train crash)
Netherlands – Hooghalen train crash, a train driver was killed and three people were injured after a Nederlandse Spoorwegen train collided with an agricultural...
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or driver's compartment of a locomotive, railcar or multiple unit. The information is continually updated giving an easy to read display to the train driver...
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but she hid before finally flagging down a road train driver at 12:35 am, who (with his co-driver) took her back to Barrow Creek. The Alice Springs...
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A driver's reminder appliance (DRA) is a manual switch in the driving cab of a passenger train. When operated it glows bright red and prevents the driver...
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List of rail accidents in the Netherlands (redirect from Netherlands train crash)
Roermond. The driver of an NS passenger train suffered a heart attack, ran through a red signal to collide head-on with a freight train. The driver was killed...
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driver) Motorman (tram/streetcar driver) Pay driver Racing driver Taxicab driver Test driver Train driver Truck driver Pilot Valet Parking On-road professional...
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due to a cyclone. 6 June 2000 – The driver of a passenger train was killed and nearly 24 were injured when the train deraied near Kasganj in Etah district...
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On trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings: The maximum brake force available to the engine driver from the conventional braking system...
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