Crossword clues for switchman
switchman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Switchman \Switch"man\, n.; pl. Switchmen. One who tends a switch on a railway.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who operates railway switches which route trains onto rail tracks. 2 A person whose job is to help in the switching of railcars in a railway yard.
WordNet
n. a man who operates railroad switches
Wikipedia
A switchman (North America) or pointsman (British Isles) 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 yard or terminal or one who operates the switches of mine tracks in a coal mine.
A switchman often works as part of 3 member switching crew consisting of an Engineer, Conductor and Switchman. The conductor or foreman on the job is responsible for giving direction to the switchman in order to properly line switches to ensure cars are lined into the correct track and blocked correctly with like cars scheduled to a similar destination.
Usage examples of "switchman".
By the time the switchman had answered a whole string of routine questions, his clock had moved up a few minutes.
To understand that, the switchman would have had to see more than the body of Armand Thull, lying between the pillars down the track.
The switchman, the great impresario, half a head shorter than Jenny: Hermann Haseloff, his mouth full of gold teeth.
He had worked his way through the ranks, starting as a switchman, then a brakeman for four months, and finally as a fireman.
The railway management places a switchman on duty at this delicate post.
But in a moment of fatigue, or because he had to work inhumanly long hours of work, which exhausted all his nervous elasticity, or for other reasons, the switchman forgets to set the switch and causes a railroad accident, in which people are killed and wounded.
With it she was not only able to find out a new, unlisted phone number, but was able to do it in the middle of a wintry night, sending a telephone switchman chasing across town for her.
The cops were chasing me but a switchman took pity on me and hid me in his shack under a pile of coats.
Cyril know so much about how an ex-railway switchman felt about the world?
The first wreck in the railroad yards had occurred when a switchman highballed a shifting locomotive along the main track.
The engine had taken the siding instead, mowing down the switchman who stood in its path.
The desire of the switchmen to organize and bargain for better pay and better treatment is anything but routine to you and Courtleigh.
It was aimed dead at a railroad switchman who was staring in at them through the open door of the boxcar, who was cupping his hands, who was screeching at a group of gandy dancers farther down the tracks.
In an endless line, conductors, switchmen, mechanics and their assistants, scrubwomen from the depot, moved across the ground between the wooden buildings of the management and the station with its workshops, warehouses, engine sheds, and tracks.
The track workers, the switchmen, the yardmen, who had always greeted her, anywhere along the line, their cheerful grins boasting that they knew who she was—had now looked at her stonily, turning away, their faces wary and closed.