platelayer

British  

/ ˈpleɪtˌleɪə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The data being given, by a theodolite or otherwise, an intelligent platelayer can easily set out the curve, while the trained engineer proceeds in advance with the theodolite.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

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)

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

Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon