(rail, US, Canada) A railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track.
(rail, US, Canada) A railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track.
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(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).
(rail, UK) A driver's assistant on a diesel or electric locomotive.
(Scotland) A platelayer; one who maintains a railway track.
(UK) A person not employed on or by a railway.