noun

• A person who drives a railway locomotive.

  ‘He works full-time in Switzerland as an engine driver on the country's electric railway network.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Yesterday he enjoyed chatting with the engine driver and looking at the trains at the National Railway Museum in York.’
  • ‘His father, Reg, a former Great Western Railway engine driver, always read the paper.’
  • ‘Her father was a railway worker and later an engine driver, and although he kept his job during the 1930s Depression, the family had little money to spare.’
  • ‘To become an engine driver it was necessary to start at the bottom, cleaning locomotives, to progress to stoking them and then at last to driving.’