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Title: Brakeman Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:brakeman URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brakeman Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The advent of through brakes, brakes on every wagon which the driver could control, made this role redundant, although the name lives on, for example, in the United States where brakemen carry out a variety of functions both on the track and within trains.