signalman

How To Use signalman In A Sentence

• Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
• David spent more than 20 years working as a signalman on the railways.
• You're a rifleman, a cook, a signalman... it doesn't matter how much you're promoted up the ranks: you always wear your specialty badge until the day they make you a General. Peter Samuelson: Leadership Is Not Just for Experts!
• Occasionally, for a joke, the fireman would put the end of the staff in the firebox, making it too hot for the signalman to handle.
• Expecting the visitor to knock to gain admittance, the signalman walked towards the door to see what the visitor wanted.
• These are of course available only at decennial intervals, and the Statistical Office translated ‘railway employment’ to mean those jobs which could not be done other than on the railway - signalman, guard, platelayer, shunter, etc.
• Surely you would not call a signalman unfeeling because he held out a red lamp when he knew that just round the curve beyond his cabin the rails were up, and that any train that reached the place would go over in horrid ruin. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
• The crew consisted of the stoker and driver, the guard and assistant guard, the shunter, the station master (or should I say ‘person’) and the signalman.
• The former Leading Seaman Signalman and the Petty Officer Quartermaster proudly broke the pennant which for the life of the ship will fly at her masthead.
• Mr Cammish started out at sea as a junior signalman in the Royal Navy in 1949 and after eight years travelling the world, he joined the Coastguard in 1957.