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    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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    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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    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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  • on the Meppel–Groningen railway. The train driver was killed instantly, while three people were injured. The driver of the tractor escaped without injuries...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    verbalizing these indicators helps with focus. The method was first used by train drivers and is now commonly used in Japanese industry. It is recommended by...
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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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    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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  • Mizuho Suzuki as Hanamura Yumi Takigawa as SAS staff Jirō Chiba as Rescue train driver Rikinaga Nakano as Osaka businessman Saburo Date as Businessman Susumu...
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    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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    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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    eventually being defenceless. The assistant train driver Saad Qamar used wireless communications to warn a nearby train station about the attack, but it was...
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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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    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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  • freight train 2074 at Aomori-Higashi, JR East orders all trains on the Tōhoku Shinkansen stopped to clear a path for Hayabusa 60, whose driver Chika Matsumoto...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    crew compartment or driver's compartment of a locomotive, or a self-propelled rail vehicle, is the part housing the train driver, fireman or secondman...
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  • Automated on-train announcements, as opposed to on-train announcements made by a train conductor or a train driver, are pre-prepared audio recordings...
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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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