Translation for "signal man" to spanish

Signal man

noun

• guardavía

Translation examples

guardavía noun

According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it was impossible to risk the passage. He did not in any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge.
Según el guardavía, muchos alambres estaban rotos, y el puente amenazaba ruina, siendo imposible arriesgarse y pasarlo.

The train had stopped before a red signal which blocked the way. The engineer and conductor were talking excitedly with a signal-man, whom the station-master at Medicine Bow, the next stopping place, had sent on before.
El tren se había parado ante una señal roja, y el maquinista, así como el conductor, altercaban vivamente con un guardavía que había sido enviado al encuentro del convoy por el jefe de Medicine Bow, la estación inmediata.