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  • noun Plural form of railwayman.

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Examples

  • The railwaymen were the next to threaten a strike against retrenchments.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 8 Ray Esther 1969

  • Even the sight-seeing trips aren't exactly your average: "Communist party authorities at the highest level had decided that what the first delegation of British railwaymen to Czechoslovakia would like to see more than anything else were sights, locations and exhibits connected with the wartime assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague."

    Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle - review Ian Sansom 2010

  • There were two retired railwaymen on the platform at Berney Arms when I got back, who said they'd always wanted to come here.

    The rail to nowhere 2010

  • Polish railwaymen, for example, secured the entire sustenance of the German eastern front.

    How Technology Almost Lost the War « Isegoria 2008

  • When I first met him 35 years ago Darling was pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh.

    Decca Aitkenhead ignores Alistair Darling's Trotskyite past 2008

  • Like the railwaymen, Muybridge ignored ecological niceties.

    Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer 2010

  • When I first met him 35 years ago Darling was pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • He and thirty other railwaymen from Smolensk and Orsha had left Moscow in early September.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • In 1914 there were 200.000 men under arms in Ireland where a revolt over Home Rule seemed inevitable; in England the miners, the railwaymen and the transport workers were each claiming union recognition for the railwaymen who had thus far been excluded from the TU; and all workers were appealing for a 48 hour work week.

    Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • For the Hinckley fire, we have at least minute-by-minute information, particularly based on the accounts of the railwaymen and telegraph operators.

    The Hinckley Fire and Very Small History 2008

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