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

Railway lubricator Section gangs Signal maintainer Track inspector Traquero Platelayer Navvy (navigator) Track foreman Structure Maintainer Lighting Maintainer...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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"...

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...

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

November 1859 and was closed on 7 February 1966. In May 1911, an assistant platelayer was struck by a train travelling from Cork to Queenstown (Cobh). He was...

line has been mothballed, with no definitive plans. On 19 March 1844, a platelayer was killed on the incline leading into the station when he was hit by...

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

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...

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

1905, an express passenger train was derailed at Witham, Essex due to a platelayer's error. Eleven people were killed and 71 were injured. On 9 January 1913...

English-born Australian politician. He was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire to platelayer Joseph Bavister and Kesiah Langley, and moved to Bedfordshire at a young...

working in a quarry; some two years later (1862), he became a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, and generally wrote under the...

Galway, and Castlerea, County Roscommon Passenger train struck axle from platelayer's trolley and derailed [21] MGW 8 September 1907 1 0 7 Kilrane, near Rosslare...