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What is a brakesman?

What is a brakesman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
  2. A brakeman; a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
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In the case any pilot is included in a crew as brakesman or crew member, that crew will be excluded from the test runs.
George Stephenson came from a mining family and by 1804 had secured the post of brakesman at Killingworth colliery.
He shall take care to run no train without a brake-van at the rear end, and a brakesman in attendance.
Walker's partnership with Gillian Cooke showed promise last season, but following intensive testing in training over the summer months Rebekah Wilson has now joined as brakesman in the women's lead two-man crew.
There he worked as a brakesman while they lived in one room of a cottage.
George Stephenson's duties as brakesman may be briefly described.

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