car attendant

plural car attendants

1. rail transportAn employee placed in charge of a single coach, sleeping car or lounge car on a medium-to-long-distance passenger train.

   A bell circuit, fed from the train lighting battery, is connected to a push in each berth and functions in conjunction with a luminous indicator mounted over the door and in association with a cancellation push, for use by the car attendant.

   1952 February, “New Third Class Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 87