crossing keeper

noun

A member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.

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Meanings

nouncrossing keeper (plural crossing keepers)

plural crossing keepers

  1. rail transportA member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.

    All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.

    1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619
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Chicago

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