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Bill Quirk (Australian politician) (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1948) was an Australian politician. He was born in Burrumbeet to railway platelayer Michael Quirk and Catherine Houlihan. He attended state schools and worked

William Page (cricketer) (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Page was born in Caverswall, Staffordshire the son of Samuel Page, a platelayer, and his wife Phoebe. He was a boilermaker and in 1881 was widowed with

Watchingwell Halt railway station (610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

buildings, and extremely comfortable those rooms are, too. Her husband is a platelayer on the railway. The trains stop for Sir John's family and visitors when

Thomas Bavister (199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

English-born Australian politician. He was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire to platelayer Joseph Bavister and Kesiah Langley, and moved to Bedfordshire at a young

Hope railway station (England) (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

George Wolfe and Joseph Richard Henderson, were killed along with a platelayer, James Herbert Chapman. The verdict at the inquest, held by Colonel Alan

Natal Railway 0-4-0WT Natal (1,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Company, assisted by Alexander Davidson, chief smith, fitter, springmaker, platelayer and head of the repair shops. A young seaman named Austin was taken on

Snailham Halt railway station (547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a "Railway Crossing" with the associated cottage shown occupied by a Platelayer in each subsequent Census.[citation needed] The 1911 Census shows that

William Ellis Bailiff (439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bailiff retired from football at the age of 39 and went on to work as a platelayer for a railway company. He died in Aberdare in 1972. "Index entry". FreeBMD

Nidd Valley Light Railway (5,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

years, and to J Brown, who had been a platelayer for 20 years. Pensions were also to be paid to another platelayer and the locomotive fireman on reaching

Rutherglen railway station (1,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contractor's employee in the vicinity. 1867: A train ran over and killed a platelayer. 1869: In the Rutherglen tunnel about 150 yards (137 m) west of the then

Penpergwm railway station (497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accidents recorded in local newspapers: 4 April 1865. Thomas Morley, a platelayer, while avoiding the path of one train was hit by a pilot engine on the

Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway (2,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the guard attempted to unlock the doors of an overturned coach, and a platelayer started back to warn any following train. A "policeman" (i.e. a railway

Eileen Duggan (878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ireland, and had married in Wellington on 7 October 1885. John was a platelayer on the New Zealand Railways. She attended Tuamarina School from 1901 to

Round Oak rail accident (2,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

train reached Round Oak at about 8.10 pm; as it drew to a halt a foreman-platelayer heard a loud 'snap' as the coupling behind the eleventh coach broke and

Gotham Curve (1,965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The curve was subject to a speed limit of 5 mph (8 km/h) and led "the platelayer [..] to keep a supply of rail chairs and other spares to hand in case

Ipswich railway station (5,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

whilst trying to get out of the way of an engine. On 21 August 1912 a platelayer (track worker) was hit by the engine of a troop train having failed to

History of the railway track (6,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as plates, and the railway is sometimes called a plateway. The term "platelayer" also derives from this origin. In theory, the unflanged wheels could

South Luffenham (4,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cottages; in the part that was later the shop lived George Hippey, a platelayer. He fell foul of the landlord and one day threw paraffin under the front

1946 Birthday Honours (40,050 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jaghab, Mukhtar of Ramallah, Palestine. Gladstone Horatio Thomas, Foreman Platelayer, Railways, Sierra Leone. Al-Bundari, W.O. Class I, Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan