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Meanings of train driver in English

Russian
машинист
Portuguese
maquinista
Spanish
motorman
Catalan
conductor ferroviari
Wikidata

Person who operates a train on a railroad or railway.

Related terms
машинист
Synonyms
Examples for "engine driver"
Examples for "engine driver"
1
He guessed the engine driver and perhaps his mate had been the victims.
Carte Blanche
2
He found the guard and the engine driver awaiting events in the station-master's office.
Lady Bountiful
3
Neither was he trying to flag down the engine driver.
Carte Blanche
4
Five minutes later, Molly and the engine driver's wife were climbing the embankment together.
Lady Bountiful
5
The guard, a fat, good-humoured looking man, was talking earnestly to the engine driver.
Lady Bountiful
1
Dozens of trains were cancelled and others re-routed, train operator Trenitalia said.
Radio NZ
2
Bure has bought the locomotives to lease them to train operator RushRail AB.
Reuters
3
Both the metro and train have now resumed, the train operator and local police said.
Reuters
4
France's national train operator SNCF has asked people to postpone planned journeys via the station.
Radio NZ
5
Last week, the national rail passenger survey confirmed that Southern was the worst-performing train operator.
The Guardian
1
There he had married Agnes, the blond daughter of the railroad engineer.
The Goose Man
2
He was a railroad engineer who drove a switch engine in the yards.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
3
After more than twenty years as a railroad engineer, he was bored and restless.
The lost city of z: a tale of deadly obsession in the amazon
4
We hired a railroad engineer to survey the town site and stake it into lots.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
5
And he became at last a great railroad engineer.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
Usage of train driver in English
1
The train driver was detained for four days pending investigations, it said.
Reuters
2
KiwiRail says the train driver was not injured and is receiving support.
Radio NZ
3
Every day a train driver in New Zealand suffers a near miss.
Radio NZ
4
Dennis Murdoch is a retired train driver with 40 years experience.
Radio NZ
5
KiwiRail says the train driver was sounding their horn when the crash happened.
Radio NZ
6
Surprisingly, perhaps, he never harboured youthful ambitions to be a train driver himself.
The Guardian
7
Out from Friday -O'Horten Gentle Norwegian comedy on a retiring train driver.
The Guardian
8
Madam, - The job of a train driver requires some skill and enormous responsibility.
The Irish Times
9
Egyptian state television said the train driver had been arrested.
Reuters
10
After all, like the train driver said: we're all humans.
The Guardian
11
A freight train driver is taking time off after being attacked on the job yesterday.
Radio NZ
12
A qualified train driver earns just more than $40 an hour.
Radio NZ
13
The train driver is excellently played by Matthew Malone.
The Irish Times
14
Moyle said incidents like this were extremely upsetting, and the train driver would be offered support.
Radio NZ
15
Sure you don't fancy being a train driver?'
Raising Steam
16
The train driver was chased down a darkened tunnel by armed officers, commuters screamed and fled.
The Guardian