Between two journeys, a train must be parked, unparked and subjected to multiple maintenance operations. Before it can move, the track must also be free from any maintenance work. Hence the importance of these other driving professions. In addition, there are gateways to the line driver profession.

Between Paris’s Gare Saint-Lazare and the sheds, Matéo (CRML) is the man responsible for the traffic. At the Atlantique technicentre, Tristan, a shunter driver (also known as a “jockey”) moves the trains for washing, repairs, etc., while Frédéric (CREQ), on the “Kirow” type crane wagon, and his team handle the necessary work to be carried out on the network.

Here’s an in-depth report on their daily work.