(rail, UK) A driver's assistant on a diesel or electric locomotive.
(rail, UK) A driver's assistant on a diesel or electric locomotive.
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(rail, US, Canada) A railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track.
(India) A train driver.
(rail, UK) A railway employee who directs operations over a section of railway line temporarily reduced to single track, e.g. during maintenance work, or within an unsignalled area or over a line unfamiliar to the engine crew.
(rail, chiefly, British) A man in charge of railroad points (switches).
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Motorman has two primary uses. In a dated general sense it refers to a person who operates a motor vehicle or controls a motor — a term from the early days of motorised transport and industrial machinery. In Indian English it specifically refers to a train driver or locomotive operator, a usage that remains active in Indian railway vocabulary. The historical senses are archaic in most English contexts, but the Indian railway sense ('motorman') is current and specific.