Locomotive team - a group of engineers and technicians in railway transport who are charged with the duty of servicing a locomotive ( diesel locomotive , electric locomotive , steam locomotive , MVPS ) and the safe conduct of the train . [one]
The locomotive crew usually consists of two people - this is the engineer who heads the team and his assistant .
Previously, with locomotive traction , the locomotive crew , in addition to the driver and his assistant, included: a stoker (there could be two stokers on powerful locomotives, and there could be no stokers on coal locomotives), as well as a lubricant , and the lubricant worked only when servicing the locomotive in depot, and the remaining members of the brigade led the engine and served it along the route.
When switching to diesel traction, a lubricant and a fireman were gradually excluded from the locomotive crew, but for some time there was a job as a diesel engineer who monitored the operation of the diesel along the route. With the increase in the reliability of diesel locomotives, the need for a diesel engineer disappeared.
In a number of cases, when switching to controlling a locomotive directly by a train driver, the term locomotive crew began to go out of use.
When controlling a locomotive, the driver must comply with the traffic lights at the station and all service orders of the station duty officer , and on the train dispatcher , the driver must strictly comply with all orders and instructions of the movers. The engineer and his assistant, when approaching or approaching the station, immediately become operatively subordinate to the station duty officer and do not have the right to carry out movement operations without the station duty officer’s permission.
Notes
- ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Ch. ed. B. A. Vvedensky, 2nd ed. T. 32. Panipat - Pechura. 1955. 648 pp., Ill. and cards; 53 l ill. and cards.
Literature
- Locomotive Brigade // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.