railway man

Questions about railway man

What does railway man mean?

railway man means "an employee of a railroad".

What is another word for railway man?

Close synonyms include trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is railway man a common word?

railway man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.