Sentence examples for rail engineer from inspiring English sources

The first step was to appoint Herman Haupt, a famed veteran rail engineer, as McCallum's deputy.

"When it comes to signaling, the Americans are very primitive," Roger Ford, technology editor of the UK magazine Modern Railways and a trained rail engineer, told the Guardian.

In 1894, Charles Miller, son of an immigrant Scottish rail engineer, disembarked at the port of Santos with two footballs, one in each hand.

The drug test failure rates are computed in fractions that belie the mayhem than can result if a bus driver, rail engineer, pilot or pipeline worker in a "safety sensitive" position is under the influence.

Roger Ford, a former rail engineer and expert on the industry, said fine snow had been identified as a problem in the past, bringing many British Rail services to a halt in the south of England in 1982 and causing lesser disruption to more modern trains in Birmingham in 1995.

But Network Rail engineer Steve Hawkins said they would have to wait for flooding to subside before they can begin repairs.

McNaughton, like all rail engineers, preferred open-country and out-of-town parkway stations.

Mr Steer's words carry weight as his organisation is backed by some of the biggest rail engineers and operators in international transport.

The Commons environmental audit committee also calls for the ringfencing of cash to preserve natural habitat (pdf), to prevent HS2 Ltd scrimping on measures that rail engineers deem impractical.

However as John Osborne explains, arguably the greatest challenge that the composites industry faces is convincing rail engineers that modern polymer composites which have often been developed for use in aircraft are suitable for use in trains and that the composites are not expensive.

There were rescuers already at the scene; firemen, divers, police officers and others, including rail engineers.