railwayman
Britishnoun
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Born working-class – the son of a Suffolk railwayman – Hall had scholarships to Perse public school and then Cambridge University.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
Born at Carnforth, in Lancashire, Cecil Parkinson was the son of a railwayman and in his youth he was left-wing, a pacifist and considered becoming a clergyman.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2016
Prescott was born in Prestatyn, north Wales, in 1938, the son of a railwayman.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2012
Herr Meier, a pensioned railwayman, thereby achieved a statistical distinction: he was the 300,000th refugee to escape to West Berlin in 1953, the biggest year of flight since World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
He vanishes from the story at this point, in a discharge of Parthian shafts by Tommy the young railwayman, not very energetically returned, as if he thought the contest not worth prolonging.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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