The profession of Locomotive Driver

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Locomotive Driver
Train Driver (Locomotive Driver) - is a railroader who
operates passenger and freight trains and electric trains
of various connections and purposes.

Features of the profession
The Locomotive Driver must drive the train exactly
according to the schedule, take into account specific
warning signals on the runs, monitor the traffic lights, the
indications of instrumentation. Also work under
conditions of increased moral responsibility for life and
health of people.

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Knowledge & Skills
operate, maintain and repair rolling stock in accordance with the
requirements of regulations and safety.
• organize the work of the production team in compliance with life
safety and environmental protection.
• work with normative and legal documents, design and
technological documentation.
• rules of maintenance, acceptance, order of delivery and
inspection, classification of types of repair and inspection of
diesel locomotives, their characteristics.
• carry out the work provided by the maintenance systems and
preventive maintenance; determine the volume and quality
performance of the production area.

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State of health
The medical committee will assess blood, eyes,
posture (negative to the presence of surgical
intervention in the body), heart, hearing, and
nerves. Certificates from the narcologist and from
the psychiatric clinic are mandatory.

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Personal qualities
- acumen;
- caution;
- observation;
- circumspection;
- vigilance;
- determination;
- poise;
- discipline;
- organization;
- responsibility;
- self-control.

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Electric Locomotive Driver
trainer EP1M (ЭП1М)

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Women in this profession
“It is believed that a woman has no place in the cab of a locomotive.
However, during the years of testing, during the war years, it was
women who worked on the railway transport, working in the cab of
the engine with double, if not triple force.”

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