railwayman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Now, being a railwayman, I thought he'd either missed a speed restriction sign or there was something else wrong. I don't remember anything else after that," he says.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2021
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
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 De Morgan, William Frend
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