The train driver is a railwayman who controls the freight, as well as trains with passengers, trains with an electric drive for various purposes and messages. Trains differ both by locomotive affiliation and relate to diesel locomotives or electric locomotives and by purpose of the route range. Transportation and passenger trains are engaged in long -distance trains and passenger trains, while the suburban train makes several routes a day, without leaving the region.
How to become a train driver
There are own trains at huge enterprises, such trains go along small routes. For each type of train, you need a driver with special training. The train driver should always comply with the train schedule, while not violating the rules of railway traffic, semaphore signals. Trains constantly go along a certain route and only not foreseen, can change the movement schedule and route. High speed, road signs, devices of devices, this requires great responsibility and constant attention. Therefore, the driver’s truck trains work with a partner, an assistant driver who will become a train driver after some time. The train driver can work directly in the subway, in mines, large factories and enterprises.
How to become a train driver
The driver must have important qualities: confidence, have a high sense of responsibility, instant reaction, excellent vision, sharp hearing. There are diseases in which it is forbidden to work as a train driver, this is an asthma bronchial, disease of the nervous system, heart problems, impaired vestibular apparatus, disease of the musculoskeletal system. Each driver must have skills and knowledge necessary when managing the locomotive, it is to be able to control the locomotive, if necessary to carry out locksmiths, be able to handle the walkie -talkie. Thoroughly know the rules of the railway traffic and the device of the locomotive. To become a driver, it is necessary to get an elementary vocational education at a railway college or receive secondary education vocational in a technical school or colleges that have a specialty of “technical operation of mobile roads” with the qualification of “technician”. Perhaps also acquire the profession of a driver and at the place of work, become a student of the driver.