railwayman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Research says that trugo was invented in the late 1920s or early 1930s by Tom Grieves, a Yarraville railwayman and first president of the Victoria Trugo Association.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2018
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
Mr Cash is a railwayman through and through, having begun work with British Rail in 1978 in the signal and telegraph department.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2016
Every railwayman, for example, who went on strike in disregard of his contract is personally liable to be sued in the County Court for damages.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man will become a miner or a railwayman 'by patrimony,' and it will be difficult to gain admission to a union in any other way.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
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