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Profession · Transport Engineering

Rail vehicle driver in Germany

Also called: Tram driver, Train driver

Drives trams, metro trains and other rail vehicles and observes the timetable and passenger safety.

Schienenfahrzeugführer/inProfession with vocational training

Facts

In GermanSchienenfahrzeugführer/in

Path into the professionvocational training (Ausbildung), 2–3.5 years

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