Railway occupations

person who operates a train on a railroad or railway

crew member on a bus, train, or other public transportation

person who tends the fire for the running of a steam engine

person in charge of a railway station

railway staff

rail transport profession

person who controls the passage of a train by a level crossing

police forces of rail transport

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 advent of through brakes, brakes on every wagon which could be controlled by the driver, made this role redundant, although the name lives on, for example, in the United States where brakemen carry out a variety of functions both on the track and within trains.

worker who pushes people onto the train at a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours

thumb|Trackwomen, 1943. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad|Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company 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 working in teams or gangs under the charge of a foreman called (in UK, Australia and NZ) the "ganger", often assisted by an assistant ganger. The term "platelayer" derives from the plates used to build plateways, an early form of railway.

thumb|A 1943 color photograph of a switchman at work at the Chicago and North Western Railway's Proviso Yard in [[Chicago.]] thumb|right|200px|A Russian switchman on the Trans-Siberian Railway, photographed by [[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky between 1905 and 1915.]] thumb|The grave of John Cook, pointsman, Corstorphine, Edinburgh A switchman (North America) also known as pointsman (British Isles) or yardman (Commonwealth) is a rail transport worker whose original job was to operate various railway switches or points on a railroad. It also refers to a person who assists in moving cars in a railway yar

person who operates an electrified trolley car, tram, light rail, or rapid transit train

railway employee to assist passengers and load luggage

thumb|right|A wheeltapper at work on the Bulgarian railway in 2009. thumb|A wheeltapper's hammer with the rings. thumb|right|A wheeltapper signing off after checking the wheels of a train at Budapest-Keleti railway station in 2014. He has placed his long hammer on the train's buffers. A wheeltapper is a railway worker employed to check the structural integrity of train wheels and that axle boxes are not overheating.

A secondman or '''driver's assistant''' is a railway employee who assists the driver of a train.

thumb|right|250px|A "navvy" depicted in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work Navvy, a clipping of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), mainly refers to the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects, though it is also used in North America to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Great Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations".