Conductor's seat
Conductor's seat , also conductor's seat , conductor's seat , conductor's workstation , conductor's desk , conductor's pulpit , conductor's throne or, in Switzerland, the conductor's seat or billeteer's seat , is what is called a - today largely extinct - facility in a tram , a trolleybus or an omnibus , which the conductor can use as a permanent workplace for tickets . Sale or ticket control. This is a waist-high enclosure arranged in the entry area of the vehicle, with the conductor usually sitting with his back to the window and serving the passengers from the side or front. Completely closed conductor cabins or conductor cabins or billeteur cabins are rarer .
The conductor's place is usually arranged a little higher so that the entire interior and in particular the door areas can be seen. Additional handling aids are arranged around the workplace:
- a so-called pay table with number plates , often with integrated gallop changer
- a microphone for calling the stops or for other announcements
- a departure signal directed to the driver and automatically transmitted as a replacement for the traditional bell cord
- Buttons for door operation, if this is not done by the driver
Conductor seats are usually only used in conjunction with the so-called passenger flow process. In this case, the passengers have to get on where the seat conductor collects or checks them - in this case all other doors are only used for getting off. Before the advent of this principle, so-called shuttle conductors were common, who handled the passengers at their respective seated or standing area and had to switch from one end of the car to the other after each stop. Sometimes the conductors' seats were only in operation during the busy rush hour . In the off-peak times, however, they remained orphaned because the driver then took over the duties of the conductor.
Occasionally there were also long articulated trams with two conductors' seats, an example of this was the Stuttgart type SSB GT6 . In this case the two conductors sat in front of and behind the joint, each responsible for one half of the car. Even bidirectional vehicles sometimes had two conductors' seats so that passengers could always get on at the back as usual, regardless of the respective direction of travel.
Peter Witt car of the Toronto tram : the conductor has handled all the passengers and is waiting for the next station
Conductor's seat in a Škoda trolleybus, including a control panel for door operation
The workplace from the perspective of the staff, here in a Tatra T1
Payment table with integrated gallop changer and payment plate in detail
Modern conductor's cabin in a Combino of the Amsterdam tram
Simple conductor's seat in Tomsk , Russia , raised but without edging
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literature
- Hans J. Knupfer: Yellow Classic - The GT4, Stuttgart's tram car for five decades . Stuttgart 2006/2007, ISBN 978-3-9811082-0-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ M-railcar and m-sidecar on strassenbahn-muenchen.de
- ↑ Articulated railcar 106 of the Remscheid tram at www.tram-info.de ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
