motorman

plural motormen

1. datedA man who controls a motor.
2. datedA person who operates a motor vehicle.

   I woke up with a motorman's glove in my mouth, drank two cups of coffie and went through the morning papers.

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 43

3. IndiaA train driver.

   Near-synonym: engineer

   Synonyms: engineer

4. UKAn electric train or tram driver.

   Near-synonym: engineer

   3 more examples

   Four years later, on May 27, 1898, he was promoted to fireman, and worked on all types of freight trains until November 27, 1911, when he was transferred to Heaton and became a motorman on the Tyneside electric services. After a spell of just over eight years as a motorman, he returned to Gateshead as a driver, and apart from a further short period as a motorman, he was employed at the Gateshead depot, first as a pilot driver, and then as a freight train driver.

   1943 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: VII—Driver Matthew Morton, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 220

   The electric train motorman denied emphatically that he had misread this train's signals for his own and asserted that the inner home signal on the up main through line for his train was displaying a green aspect, with the indicator showing platform 14.

   1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138

   But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.

   2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29

   Synonyms: motorneer, engineer