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    A train dispatcher (US), rail traffic controller (Canada), train controller (Australia), train service controller (Singapore) or signaller (UK), is employed...
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    Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial...
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    dispatchers to relay information, direct personnel, and coordinate their operations. An emergency dispatcher, also known as public safety dispatcher,...
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  • Train Dispatcher is a train simulator of centralized traffic control (CTC) systems. It was originally developed in the 1980s as a training tool for a...
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    communication between the dispatcher and driver. Authority to occupy a track is received directly from the dispatcher, with the train crew filling out the...
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    rear of the train to aid in braking after cresting Cajon Pass. After a shift change in the train dispatcher's office, the new dispatcher correctly recalculated...
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  • 1961), American baseball player Vince Coleman (train dispatcher) (1872–1917), Canadian train dispatcher killed in the Halifax Explosion Vincent Coleman...
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    the dispatcher can keep track of trains' locations across the territory that the dispatcher controls. Larger railroads may have multiple dispatcher's offices...
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    the Train Dispatchers did not participate but neither would they perform work of other unions. Rail traffic controller Train Dispatcher (computer simulation)...
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  • known as "direct" traffic control because the train dispatcher gives track authority directly to the train crew via radio, as opposed to through wayside...
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