This is a list of railway industry occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity.

By sector

Bertha Allen Station Mistress Padbury Railway Station

Engineering

Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief 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 locomotive ...

* Locomotive Superintendent (Chief Mechanical Engineer) * Manager (Guard)

Station

* Station agent * Senior Station Superintendent * Station Superintendent * Deputy Station Superintendent * Selected Station Master * Senior Station Master * Junior Station master * Deputy Station Master * Assistant Station Master * Pointsman *

Porter Porter may refer to: Companies * Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto * Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets * Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer * H.K. Porter, Inc., ...

Revenue

Ticket controller Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems. Instead of checking each passenger as they enter a fare control zone, passengers are required to carry a ticket, p ...

* Revenue Protection Inspector * Ticket inspector

Operations

Train dispatcher A train dispatcher (US), rail traffic controller (Canada), train controller (Australia), train service controller (Singapore) or signaller (UK), is employed by a railroad to direct and facilitate the movement of trains over an assigned territory, ...

Dispatcher A dispatcher is a communications worker who receives and transmits information to coordinate operations of other personnel and vehicles carrying out a service. A number of organizations, including police and fire departments, emergency medical ...

Freight Conductor A 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, which includes reviewing schedules and maintaining ...

* Signalman

Management

* Road foreman of engines

Maintenance of way

* Bridge inspector *

Gandy dancer Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early Rail transport, railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained Track (rail transport), railroad tracks in the years before the work was don ...

* Length runner * Railway lubricator * Section gangs * Signal maintainer * Track inspector * Traquero *

Platelayer A platelayer (British English), fettler (British English – UK, Australia, NZ) or trackman (American English) is a railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway, usually under the charge of a foreman called (in UK ...

* Navvy (navigator) * Track foreman * Structure Maintainer * Lighting Maintainer * Escalator and Elevator Maintainer * Electronic Equipment Maintainer * Telephone Maintainer * Turnstiles Maintainer * Mechanical Maintainer Group "C" * Mechanical Maintainer Group "B" * Power Maintainer

Alphabetical

B

* Boilerman *

Brakeman A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The earliest known use of the term to describe this occupation occurred in 1833. The advent of through brakes, ...

* Bridge inspector *

Bridge tender A bridge tender operates and maintains a bridge to ensure the safe passage of water traffic and vehicle traffic on the bridge. For a railroad bridge, the bridge tender is also responsible for rail traffic safety. Moveable bridges A moveable ...

C

* Chief fireman * Conductor * Carmen

D

* Train dispatching

E

Engine driver A train driver, engine driver, engineman or locomotive driver, commonly known as an engineer or railroad engineer in the United States and Canada, and also as a locomotive handler, locomotive operator, train operator, or motorman, is a pers ...

F

* Fettler: Railway Maintenance Worker *

Fireman A firefighter is a first responder and rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property, and the environment as well as to rescue people and in some cases or jurisdictions also ...

* Flagman *

G

* Ganger * Geoff * Geotechnical Engineer

L

* Length runner * Locomotive Superintendent (

) * Locomotive engineer

P

R

* Railroad engineer (engine driver) * Railway lubricator * Revenue Protection Inspector * Road foreman of engines

S

* Section gang *

Secondman {{unreferenced, date=August 2017 A secondman or second man is a railway employee who assists the driver of a train. For this reason the term driver's assistant is also used. In this role, the second man could learn the duties of the driver and on p ...

* Signal maintainer * Signalman * Station agent * Station master

T

* Track foreman

References

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External links

Railroad Workers : Occupational Outlook Handbook

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