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Title: Signallers become dispatchers Post by: bobm on September 04, 2013, 21:57:49 According to the latest issue of RAIL Magazine Network Rail plans to rename signallers from 2015. Henceforth they will be known as dispatchers. It sounds almost like an Americanism to me (the sort of thing I hate with a passion!).
What will platform staff seeing off trains from stations be called? Title: Re: Signallers become dispatchers Post by: trainer on September 04, 2013, 23:02:29 What will platform staff seeing off trains from stations be called? Departure Safety Operatives Title: Re: Signallers become dispatchers Post by: eightf48544 on September 05, 2013, 10:16:43 Sorry to me they are still signalmen, which is gender neutral.
Just as my grandmother insisted on being called Mr Mayor when she was Mayor of Southamton my mother was the Mayoress. Never liked signallers they are the cheerful cockney types that stand at the back of a warships bridge making cheeky quips in WW2 films. But dispatchers is even worse will they now be standing on the platform end handing train orders to the drivers. As for platform staff DSO sounds a bit too grand. Title: Re: Signallers become dispatchers Post by: bobm on September 05, 2013, 10:21:28 I remember a discussion on the radio years ago when someone proposed that the logical extension of calling those in charge of committees "chairs" would be to rename Manchester United Personchester United and Queens Park Rangers would become Monarch Park Rangers......
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