Deepgreen
Established Member
More importantly, to 'dispatch' means, broadly, to 'see/send away', whereas signallers both stop trains and allow their progress.That's odd, as we already have dispatchers on the railway, having two grades with the same title would cause confusion.
'Firer'? Or is that too Alan Sugar...?A fireman (in the Fire Service) is now a firefighter, but what do we now call a fireman on a steam loco? Some are women. A fireperson sounds silly, the US term "stoker" perhaps?