signalman

“I was choked up,” said Matthew Di Gioia, 25, who works as an Amtrak signalman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Albert Lamond, from Glasgow, was an 18-year-old signalman aboard HMS Rowley when he took part in the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Tarr followed with “The Man From London,” which he and Krasznahorkai adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, about a seaside railway signalman who confronts a moral quandary involving a murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Jacobs was 17 when he joined the Navy in November 1944, after D-Day, and became a Navy signalman.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

The engine-driver brings one of these staffs in with him, and this must be deposited in an automatic device in the signal-house and another received from the signalman before the train can proceed.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The workers include locomotive engineers, machinists, electricians and signalmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

The Association of American Railroads trade group said in a statement that the new dispatcher and signalmen rules aren’t likely to make a significant improvement in safety because the railroads already train their employees.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

And signalmen who maintain signals and warnings at rail crossings have bigger territories to cover, making it harder to keep up with preventative maintenance.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

While the signalmen responsible for the crash at Quintinshill were both jailed, they served just over a year in prison and were reemployed in the railways after their release.

From BBC ● May 23, 2015

No submarines attacked us and we were kept busy on board practicing our code and all the other skills we needed as signalmen.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac