Other witnesses also gave evidence strongly suggesting that the platelayers were not summoned until after the Scotsman had passed and were not back at work until after the Manchester express had passed ( c 6.50 . ).
32.
In poor visibility, GNR regulations called for detonators to be laid if possible on the track at the home signal when this was set to danger; at stations where platelayers were available, this should also be done at the distant signals.
33.
This type of rail was known as the plate-rail, tramway-plate or way-plate, names which are preserved in the modern term " platelayer " applied to the men who lay and maintain the permanent way of a railway.
34.
The engine crews and the express train's guards, the sleeping car attendants, some platelayers from a hut a short distance up the line and a shepherd whose home was nearby tried desperately to rescue the trapped passengers but were eventually driven back by thick smoke.
35.
At sixteen he was back in his native village working in a quarry; some two years later ( 1862 ), he became a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-western railway, and generally wrote under the name of "'Surfaceman " '.
36.
It all culminated when, late one night, 24 May 1920, he fell out of a large window of the presidential train near Montargis after taking some sleeping pills and was found wandering in his nightshirt by a platelayer, who took him to the nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage.
37.
The staff of the Nidd Valley Light Railway were laid off, and although their jobs did not qualify for a pension, pensions were paid to G Pearson, who had worked for the company as a locomotive driver for 30 years, and to J Brown, who had been a platelayer for 20 years.
38.
On the morning of New Year's Day, 1910, Mr W . J . Hart, a platelayer, was killed when hit by one of the crossing gates he was belatedly attempting to open at Braunton Road, which in turn had been hit by the locomotive hauling the 06 : 20 mail train to Lynton.
39.
The railway cottages, built in 1896 to accommodate railway employees ( until about 1970 ), and which have survived to the modern day and have been heritage-listed, are the only surviving timber and iron clad platelayers'cottages in Western Australia and are among a very small number of nineteenth-century timber and iron railway houses extant in 2003.
