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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.2 - driving vehicles S8.2.3 - operating rail vehicles Control train movement
Description
Control acceleration, braking, and overall operation of train in motion.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- ShunterShunters move shunting units with or without wagons or groups of wagons in order to build trains. They manage the driving of locomotives and are involved in switching wagons,…
- Occupational railway instructorOccupational railway instructors teach future occupational drivers of railway transportation, such as train, tram, metro and trolley drivers how to operate their railway vehicle ac…
- Train driverTrain drivers operate trains providing passenger or cargo transport services. They are responsible for driving the locomotive in safe manner, respecting all relevant safety, o…
Related skills
- Train operating procedures
- European Train Control System
- Mechanics of trains
- Physical characteristics of railways
- Check train engines
- Shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
- Ensure maintenance of trains
- Passenger transport regulations
- Shunt inbound loads
- Track geometry
- Locomotive brake applications
- Customs regulations for passengers
- Follow signalling instructions
