footplateman
See also: footplate man
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]footplateman (plural footplatemen)
- (UK, rail transport) A railway worker who is either a locomotive engineer or a fireman.
- 1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
- The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.
- 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:
- Footplatemen, organised not by the NUR but by ASLEF, had threatened to strike in August 1917 in demand of an eight-hour day.