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According to the dictionary, 運転手 means driver and 車掌 means conductor. So, 運転手
would be any person at the controls/steering wheel of any vehicle, while 車掌
would be someone who "is in charge of a train and travels with it, but does
not drive it" (according to an English dictionary. I am not an English native
speaker so I can't grasp the difference between both words in English either).
So, the latter is only for trains? and if he does not drive, what does a 車掌 do
in a train?

If you could provide some example sentences that illustrate the difference
between both words, it would be nice.

よろしくお願いします！
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What is the difference between 「運転手【うんてんしゅ】」 and 「車掌【しゃしょう】」?
`[運転手]{うんてんしゅ}` is responsible for driving the vehicle like the car, the bus
or the train. As you suppose, `[車掌]{しゃしょう}` only applies to the person who
works on the train. `[車掌]{しゃしょう}` takes care of other than driving the train
duties like...

>   * Closing door while maintaining customer's safety
>   * Informing the next station name
>   * Taking care of the sick person while the train is on the way to next
> station
>   * (If you ride the bullet train) Confirming if you are in the right train
> by checking the ticket.
>   * (If you stop at an unmanned train station in rural area) Collecting your
> train ticket (to make sure you are not cheating...)
>

`[運転手]{うんてんしゅ}` always stays in the first car of the train while `[車掌]{しゃしょう}`
is usually in the last car (but `[車掌]{しゃしょう}`may move to the other cars).

By the way you don't use `[運転手]{うんてんしゅ}` for the person driving the airplane
or the ship. They are called `[操縦士]{そうじゅうし}`. A pilot of the airplane you can
call `[パイロット]{ぱいろっと}` which came directly from the word "pilot".

I could not figure out the good sentences though I hope it gives you an idea.
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