| 单词 | footplate staff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfootplate staff attributive with the sense ‘designating railway workers who operate (steam) locomotives, such as drivers, firemen, and secondmen’, as footplate men, footplate crew, footplate staff, etc. ΚΠ 1889 Leeds Mercury 16 Oct. 8/2 The triennial meeting of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen was opened yesterday... The society..restricts its membership to footplate men. 1911 Manch. Guardian 10 Nov. 4/7 The uncertain quantity is the Associated Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, composed entirely of ‘footplate’ men. 1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk p. v The footplate crew has an even worse cycle—what is called the ‘split shift’ system. 2012 Steam World Aug. 36/2 The Control staff were mostly old stagers... They had been former footplate staff, guards, lamp men—you name it. < as lemmas |
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