Sentence examples for motorman in from inspiring English sources

In July 1972, he took part in Operation Motorman in Northern Ireland, when the British army reoccupied areas of Derry previously declared no-go areas by the IRA.

The chairman of the Long Island Power Authority made his theatrical debut recently as the motorman in "Meet Me in St . Louis.

Mr. Hofmann said he had been told that there were skid marks leading up to the accident, indicating that the motorman in the train that hit the other one had tried to brake.

For the last 14 years, Mr. Shadrick has worked for New York City Transit, first as a motorman, in uniform, and now, with some seniority under his belt, as a plainclothes train service supervisor, a title that hides a multitude of responsibilities.

She greeted the train operator — they are no longer known as motormen — in the first car before taking her place in the booth in the sixth, in the middle of the train.

So the details surrounding the subway's only ordained motorman remain in dispute.

In the spartan, phone-booth-size motorman's cab in a subway train, there is a metal arm a few inches long called the controller.

He does not, like one buff in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, have a mock-up of a motorman's cab in his extra bedroom, supplemented with recorded sounds from the subway to make sitting in the cab more realistic.

The motorman was still in the hospital yesterday and could not be interviewed.

The editor of the Associated Newspapers title, Peter Wright, admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday that the paper had continued to commission searches by Steve Whittamore long after the Operation Motorman police investigation resulted in his arrest in March 2003.

The driver was a train dispatcher filling in for striking motormen.