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piotr1980
Senior Member
Polish
- Jul 7, 2007
- #1
Hello,
What do you call in English the name of ''service'' (usually one/two or three people ) that check tickets on the train, bus, subway to make sure that every ne bought its ticket. In case if someone didn't do that he /she would be charged of some penalities.
In my language we call them ''conductors''
Many thanks
Piotr
Matching Mole
Senior Member
England, English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #2
This would be more likely to be a ticket inspector. A conductor would take fares from passengers in the first place, but another official would inspect them.
Brioche
Senior Member
Adelaide
Australia English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #3
When I was a lad, we had conductors who collected fares and sold tickets.
Now, on our trains you buy the ticket from a machine, and occasionally ticket inspectors come to check whether you have bought a ticket.
In Melbourne they employ mutant gorillas for the job.
GreenWhiteBlue
Banned
The City of New York
USA - English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #4
In American English, the person who comes through the train to see that you have a ticket (he often has a punch with which he punches the ticket to show that it has been examined), or to sell you a ticket if you do not have one, is the "conductor".
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take it easy
New Member
italy, italian
- Jul 7, 2007
- #5
Hi, I think that "mutant gorillas" is the right world hi hi... I'm joking...
I know that the train conductor is the "driwer" of the train and not the inspector but probably depends by the contry
GreenWhiteBlue
Banned
The City of New York
USA - English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #6
take it easy said:
Hi, I think that "mutant gorillas" is the right world hi hi... I'm joking...
I know that the train conductor is the "driwer" of the train and not the inspector but probably depends by the contry
Takeiteasy, by "driwer", do you mean "driver"? If so, that is not correct. The "driver" may be called the "engineer", or the "train operator" , or even (on electric subway trains) the "motorman", but the "conductor" is an entirely different member of the train crew, and does not operate the train.
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clairanne
Senior Member
East Sussex
english UK
- Jul 7, 2007
- #7
Hi
I think conductor or ticket collecter are fairly interchangeable. I would tend to use " conductor" on a bus and "ticket collector " on a train. Over here you only see the "inspector" on very rare occasions. He is employed as much to check up on the conductor/collector as on the passengers. If you are old enough to remember! there was a British comedy called " On the Buses where the inspector was held up to be an object of ridicule by the drivers and conductors of the buses as he was always trying to catch them doing things they shouldn't be.
A "driver" is always the person driving the vehicle, whether train or bus, and I am not aware of him ever being called anything different.
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The Scrivener
Banned
On the "naughty step".
England. English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #8
On the trains which I use (South Western), the tickets are always inspected by the guard.
GreenWhiteBlue
Banned
The City of New York
USA - English
- Jul 7, 2007
- #9
In the US, while a driver would drive a bus or other such vehicle on the street, you would not use the term "driver" to refer to the person operating a train. We also do not have conductors on buses, only on trains.
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