"gateman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "gate + -man",
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          "ref": "1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59",
          "text": "The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.",
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          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 147",
          "text": "The carriages - or cars - had gated platforms at the end, where 'gatemen' stood and controlled the flow of passengers on and off the trains in the absence of automatic doors. […] When each gateman had secured his doors and gate, he rang a bell, then the conductor rang his bell as the signal for the driver to set off.",
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        "A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate."
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        "A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate."
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