platelayer

/ ˈpleɪtˌleɪə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

I’ve always worked very hard – outdoors for most of my life as a railway platelayer – and I think that’s made me endure as long as I have.

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As the war progressed women took on the better paid but more hazardous posts of track maintenance platelayer, shunter and guard.

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

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They exert themselves to the utmost, and have no assistance in the way of practical gangers and platelayers, and have neither tools nor conveniences of any kind.

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One of them explicitly declared his envy of a platelayer whom the train passed on the line.

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