booking lad

English

Noun

booking lad (plural booking lads)

  1. (rail transport, dated, Britain) A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box.
    Synonym: signal lad
    • 1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 320:
      This will provide a permanent automatic record of all train movements in the area of each box and eliminate the manual recording at present done by booking lads.
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