platelayer

British  

/ ˈpleɪtˌleɪə /

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: trackman.  a workman who lays and maintains railway track

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Example Sentences

A Blackburn platelayer," it is stated, "who has just died at the age of seventy, left £400, which he had accumulated out of his small earnings.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various

When first I met him he was in the railway service, a labourer on the permanent way, what is called a surfaceman in Scotland, a platelayer in England and a milesman in Ireland. 

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

It lasted half the night, and then each clay-stained navvy and tattooed platelayer slept and snored where he fell.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

A curious story is told at Box of a platelayer, employed in the tunnel some twenty years ago, who with his gang worked there at night, and slept at Box village in the day.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great.

From Supply and Demand by Henderson, Hubert D.