engine driver

Definitions

The person who drives the engine of a train.

British, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“Queen Mary of the Iron⟳ Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become⟳ an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.”

“In 1914, the Hendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have⟳ no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment⟳ was this: "For many years now I have⟳ never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret⟳ is that I am not attached to a slow goods train⟳, so that I could snatch time to eat⟳ some plum-pudding."”

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