platelayer

British  

/ ˈpleɪtˌleɪə /

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: trackman.  a workman who lays and maintains railway track

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Example Sentences

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.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon

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. 

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

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.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various

It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great.

From Supply and Demand by Henderson, Hubert D.