One-person operation, also known as driver-only operation, one-man operation, single person train operation, or one-person train operation, similarly to driver-controlled operation, is operation of a
A freight train driver on a one-person operated DB Schenker Rail train in Denmark
A platform mirror for driver-only operation at Vykhino station, Moscow Metro in Russia
A Birney streetcar, one of the first public transport vehicles designed specifically for one-person operation
A Danish train driver on a S-train looking out of the side window to make sure all the doors are safely closed for departure
On July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade and derailed in do
One-person operation
…The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is the only railway in Canada approved by Transport Canada to run one-person freight trains. Following the Lac-Mégantic derailment in July 2013, when a one-person operated Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) train was involved in a major and fatal accident, the Canadian…
Police helicopter view of Lac-Mégantic, the day of the derailment
GE C30-7 No. 5023, one of the locomotives involved, seen when it was operating for the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1986
Infrared image taken by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the fire that followed the derailment: on the left, taken two days before; on the right, taken about two hours after the explosions.
The Lieutenant Governor-in-Council ordered all provincial flags to be flown at half mast on public buildings for 7 days following the derailment.