page_title: Conductor (rail)
section_title: Hungary
hierarchical_section_title: Conductor (rail) / Conductors/guards in Europe / Hungary
caption_attribution_description: English: train conductor
context_page_description: A conductor or guard is a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train/locomotive. The conductor title is most common in North American railway operations, but the role is common worldwide under various job titles. In Commonwealth English, a conductor is also known as guard or train manager.
  The responsibilities of a conductor or guard typically include the following:
  Ensuring the train follows applicable safety rules and practices
  Making sure the train stays on schedule starting from the stations
  Opening and closing of power operated doors
  The selling, buying, and checking of tickets, and other customer service duties
  Ensuring that any cars and cargo are picked up and dropped off properly
  Completing en-route paperwork
  Directing the train's movement while operating in reverse
  Coupling or uncoupling cars
  Assisting with setting out or picking up of rolling stock
  Some rapid transit systems employ conductors to make announcements and open and close doors—as opposed to a train operator performing those duties. The conductor often stays in the center of the train where they can best view the platform.
context_section_description: In Hungary a conductor may assist the train driver in testing the train's air brakes, and sometimes they have to lead the shunting, mostly when the trains are switching lines. Hungarian train conductors are responsible for the departure of the trains. In each station they give the permission to move on by giving a ready signal to the train driver. During the day they use a disc (which is white and has a green border) to give the ready signal to the train driver.
  After sunset they give signals with flashlights. Train drivers are not allowed to move the train without the conductor in chief giving them the ready signal. Conductors, along with train drivers, are responsible for keeping the trains on schedule. There is always at least one conductor in chief on passenger trains in Hungary. No passenger trains may depart without one, as only they have the right to give the departure signal.
  Some longer trains may have additional conductors who are under the command of the conductor in chief. If there is more than one conductor on a train, then the signal procedure is as follows:
  After all passengers have left or entered the train and the departure time has arrived, the conductor in chief asks the other conductor for his ready signal. If it is safe to depart he gives a ready signal to the conductor in chief who then gives the same signal to the train driver.
  As in Belgium and in the Netherlands conductors also collect and punch tickets, fine people for not having a valid fare and make announcements to the passengers. They also sell tickets on the trains; if the passengers have entered the train at a station where a ticket office is operating they can buy a ticket only with payment of a fine. However, if the passengers got on at a station or stop where they didn't have an option to buy a ticket, they can buy from the conductor without having to pay a fine.
caption: Hungarian MÁV conductor
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