- A
platelayer (British English),
fettler (British
English – UK, Australia, NZ) or
trackman (American English) is a
railway employee who
inspects and maintains...
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Railway lubricator Section gangs Signal maintainer Track inspector Traquero Platelayer Navvy (navigator)
Track foreman Structure Maintainer Lighting Maintainer...
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worked at ****ociated
Electrical Industries in
Trafford Park. He was a
platelayer at the docks, a labourer, a miner, a van driver,
building site labourer...
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taking some
sleeping pills and was
found wandering in his
nightshirt by a
platelayer, who took him to the
nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage. His resignation...
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Committee was set up to help find the wolf. On 29
December 1904, some
platelayers found the carc**** of an
animal cut in two by a p****ing
train and thrown...
- also
often called a 'gadget'; and the name has been
applied by
local platelayers to the 'gauge' used to test the
accuracy of
their work. In fact, to borrow...
- is a 1989 West
German drama film
directed by
Christian Wagner. An old
platelayer (trackman)
inspects his
stretch of
railway track for the last time. Rolf...
- of canals, or
inland navigations, for
builders of
railway lines, and
platelayer for
workers emplo**** to
inspect and
maintain the track. In the Southwestern...
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portal Bob the [South Australian]
Railway Dog
Coolie Gandy dancer Laborer Platelayer Brooke 1983, p. 167. "Railway songs".
National Railway Museum. 2014-05-09...
- tramway-plate or way-plate,
names that are
preserved in the
modern term "
platelayer"
applied to the
workers who lay and
maintain the
permanent way. The wheels...
