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plural switchmen
A person who operates railway switches which route trains onto rail tracks. quotations examples
This route is repeated automatically on the control panel of the appropriate box as flashing indications covering the track circuits involved and the switchman obeys the instruction by setting up the required route.
1959 August, Flt. Lt. R. M. Williams, “The German Federal Railways today: 2. Modern signalling at Hanover”, in Trains Illustrated, page 387
A person whose job is to help in the switching of railcars in a railway yard. examples