A platelayer (British English), fettler (British English – UK, Australia, NZ) or trackman (American English) is a railway employee who inspects and maintains...

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taking some sleeping pills and was found wandering in his nightshirt by a platelayer, who took him to the nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage. His resignation...

but failed, to damage the track at Glenrowan, so they forced two local platelayers and some labourers camped nearby to finish the job. The outlaws selected...

also often called a 'gadget'; and the name has been applied by local platelayers to the 'gauge' used to test the accuracy of their work. In fact, to borrow...

labour, requiring teams of labourers, or trackmen (US: gandy dancers; UK: platelayers; Australia: fettlers), who used lining bars to correct irregularities...

of canals, or inland navigations, for builders of railway lines, and platelayer for workers employed to inspect and maintain the track. In the Southwestern...

portal Bob the [South Australian] Railway Dog Coolie Gandy dancer Laborer Platelayer Brooke 1983, p. 167. "Railway songs". National Railway Museum. 2014-05-09...

The railway line and platelayers hut at Saughtree Station...

Scharführer (squad leader) in the SA. In 1934, Ogorzow was hired as a platelayer by the national railroad, Deutsche Reichsbahn, which ran the S-Bahn commuter...

1933". "Accident at Newsholme – Hellifield on 19th December 1933". "Platelayer's death at Mangotsfield". Western Daily Press. 23 July 1934. Retrieved...

Lodge. Busta 4wDM Fairbanks Morse A platelayers trolley originally used by U.S. Army. Used on WHR as a platelayers trolley in the 1920s and 1930s. Monster...

children often had to help out at harvest time. His father later worked as a platelayer for the national rail company SNCF. Hinault was described as a "hyperactive"...

double-headed freight train derailed at Winston, County Durham after platelayers had removed a rail before it passed. November 2 – United States – Baker...

tramway-plate or way-plate, names that are preserved in the modern term "platelayer" applied to the workers who lay and maintain the permanent way. The wheels...

Committee was set up to help find the wolf. On 29 December 1904, some platelayers found the carcass of an animal cut in two by a passing train and thrown...

wrecking the train. Five platelayers in the wagons were killed in the collision and many passengers were injured. A sixth platelayer and the passenger train's...

a "Railway Crossing" with the associated cottage shown occupied by a Platelayer in each subsequent Census.[citation needed] The 1911 Census shows that...

special protection. Jointly with the other companies along the route, platelayers and other workers were mobilised to inspect every bridge along the 600-mile...

met a platelayer despatched to the distant signal by the stationmaster. Other witnesses also gave evidence strongly suggesting that the platelayers were...

is a 1989 West German drama film directed by Christian Wagner, about a platelayer (trackman) who inspects his part of railway for the last time. Rolf Illig...

and Middlesex. Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after...

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as plates, and the railway is sometimes called a plateway. The term "platelayer" also derives from this origin. In theory, the unflanged wheels could...

Way team, with a full-time staff of platelayers. It forms part of the larger Engineering Department. Some platelayers work all year round, whilst others...

worked at Associated Electrical Industries in Trafford Park. He was a platelayer at the docks, a labourer, a miner, a van driver, building site labourer...

subdivided into 17 divisions. Each division had two employees, a platelayer foreman and a platelayer, in addition to four seasonal workers during the summer....

almost involved in a collision with a platelayer's trolley that had been left on the track. One of the platelayer's, John Morrison noticed the train coming...

commissioned. After returning home, Kozlenya worked for several years as a platelayer, where he was regarded as a good worker. After that, he entered the Siberian...

whilst trying to get out of the way of an engine. On 21 August 1912 a platelayer (track worker) was hit by the engine of a troop train having failed to...