-
platelayers work together, and
today employ a
range of labour-saving
machinery for many of the
tasks traditionally undertaken by hand by
platelayers....
- 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...
-
occurred at a
trailing crossover which was
being worked on by
three platelayers. The
three maintained they had just been
clearing and re****ng the ballast...
-
Railway lubricator Section gangs Signal maintainer Track inspector Traquero Platelayer Navvy (navigator)
Track foreman Structure Maintainer Lighting Maintainer...
- Nottinghamshire, the
fourth child and
second son of
Thomas Pierrepoint, a
railway platelayer, and Ann Pierrepoint, nee Marriott. By 1891, he and his
family had moved...
- labour,
requiring teams of labourers, or
trackmen (US:
gandy dancers; UK:
platelayers; Australia:
fettlers or packers)
under the
supervision of a
skilled ganger...
-
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...
-
refer to: The head of a gang of labourers,
especially on canals, or of
platelayers on
railways Ganger (band), a
Scottish alternative rock band
Ganger (album)...
- met a
platelayer despatched to the
distant signal by the stationmaster.
Other witnesses also gave
evidence strongly suggesting that the
platelayers were...
-
portal Bob the [South Australian]
Railway Dog
Coolie Gandy dancer Laborer Platelayer Brooke 1983, p. 167. "Railway songs".
National Railway Museum. 2014-05-09...
