Station board

The stationmaster , stationmaster or station master in medium and large railway stations station inspector or station inspector , the senior staff was one station .

The station management usually lived in an official apartment in the station building, which had an office on the ground floor. There he coordinated the work that had to be done and, with his employees, the station officials, regulated the rail traffic and served rail customers at the counter. A station director usually had a station apprenticeship or an apprenticeship to become a station employee. In smaller train stations he also had the duties of station supervision and dispatcher management .

In the past, wives often worked as barrier guards or operated the counter.

In Germany , with the railway reform and the associated splitting of the railway into many companies, the station boards have completely disappeared, as the various employees at stations belong to different Deutsche Bahn group companies.

Web links

• Operations service. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 1: Cover - discontinuation of construction . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1912, p.  284 .
• Dispatcher. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 1: Cover - discontinuation of construction . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1912, p.  435 .