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Switch keeper

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-005812

A worker, in historical mining practice, who looked after the switches and passing places on a mine's underground railways, setting the points so that loaded and empty trams could pass each other. The passing places were short double-track sections where one train waited for another to go by.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-005812
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Weichenwärter; Spanish: guardagujas; French: aiguilleur
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005812",
  "term": "Switch keeper",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A worker, in historical mining practice, who looked after the switches and passing places on a mine's underground railways, setting the points so that loaded and empty trams could pass each other. The passing places were short double-track sections where one train waited for another to go by.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Weichenwärter",
    "es": "guardagujas",
    "fr": "aiguilleur"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/switch-keeper/"
}

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