单词 | platelayer |
例句 | As the war progressed women took on the better paid but more hazardous posts of track maintenance platelayer, shunter and guard. Women that kept Britain on track 2013-01-01T02:08:56Z It lasted half the night, and then each clay-stained navvy and tattooed platelayer slept and snored where he fell. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z They exert themselves to the utmost, and have no assistance in the way of practical gangers and platelayers, and have neither tools nor conveniences of any kind. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z One of them explicitly declared his envy of a platelayer whom the train passed on the line. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z 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. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z The digging of trenches and the making of fortifications were assigned to navvies, bricklayers, platelayers, and agricultural labourers, large bodies of whom were under railway gangers, and were ready to perform any excavation work. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z The mails were removed from the train and run on a platelayer’s “trolly,” but unfortunately the contents of the bags took fire and were destroyed. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years A number of men were busy on the line, and right in front of us was a gap in the rails, the platelayers laying the steel for dear life while the engine came up. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule All the platelayers along the line are now searching for the bag, but we here are certain that the thieves spent the night in Stamford.” Hushed Up! A Mystery of London One armoured truck was off the metals, two unarmoured trucks were also overturned, one containing the platelayers' tools standing on its head, wheels uppermost, in a state of melancholy abandonment. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 My quartermaster friend and myself, unable to start with the Brigade, set out a few hours later, and tarried for the night at a Hollander platelayer's hut. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back 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. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 They make good platelayers on railways, and having plenty of physical strength, will do any sort of rough work they are set to. Impressions of South Africa For a long time there had been a feud between Pritchard and another man of the name of Wynne, a platelayer on the line. A Master of Mysteries The enemy was driven out of the platelayers' and surrounding houses, and Colenso village was cleared. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Nothing of interest happened except that a too keen sentry one night loosed off at some suspicious looking persons, who turned out to be innocent platelayers returning home from work. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion When first I met him he was in the railway service, a labourer on the permanent way, what is called a surfaceman in Scotland, a platelayer in England and a milesman in Ireland. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line. The Evolution of an English Town 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. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 "It's only some platelayers on the viaduct," he explained. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales A gang of platelayers and navvies were making a new siding by the station, and sounds of hammering also came from the engine shed. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria The heavy boots of the platelayers walking to and fro to their work on the permanent way brushed against it, and crushed the venturous fibres of the creeping cinquefoil that stretched into the path. Hodge and His Masters At every 45 ft. on alternate sides niches of 18 in. depth are placed for the safety of platelayers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 What would become of a railway that had no surfacemen and platelayers going along the line and noticing whether anything was amiss? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms But even the sons of platelayers do not commonly practise at the bar. Supply and Demand What would happen if, when the railway was completed to the Egyptian frontier, the platelayers found either a hostile Egypt or a foreign power in possession, and determined to prevent a junction of the rails? The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The feeding of 2,000 platelayers in a barren desert was a problem in itself. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great. Supply and Demand To direct and control the labours of these men of varied race and language, but of equal inexperience, some civilian foremen platelayers were obtained at high rates of pay from Lower Egypt. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan |
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