platelayers

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 Various

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 W. C. C. Weetman

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 Louis Creswicke

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 Louis Creswicke

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 Strachey, John St Loe 1922

In their report the Committee stated they had confined their inquiry to the hours of duty of those classes of railway servants that were engaged in working traffic, viz., drivers, firemen, guards, signalmen, shunters, platelayers and porters, and had not dealt with other classes; a wise distinction I thought.

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

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 Winston S. Churchill 1919

Behind the train there followed other gangs of platelayers, who completed the spiking and ballasting process; and when the sun sank beneath the sands of the western horizon, and the engine pushed the empty trucks and the weary men home to the Railhead camp, it came back over a finished and permanent line.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

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 Winston S. Churchill 1919

"It's only some platelayers on the viaduct," he explained.

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903