Railway industry occupation.
A workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks.
1 Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.
2 They transferred him to Tharanda when his time came, and he married a platelayer 's daughter, or something of that kind.
3 Have there been any platelayers at work lately?
4 The feeding of 2,000 platelayers in a barren desert was a problem in itself.
5 What would become of a railway that had no surfacemen and platelayers going along the line and noticing whether anything was amiss?
6 "It's only some platelayers on the viaduct," he explained.
7 A gang of platelayers and navvies were making a new siding by the station, and sounds of hammering also came from the engine shed.
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