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Перевод: railwayman

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железнодорожник ; железнодорожный служащий

Тезаурус:

1. In the other, the mother, a railwayman's wife, "used to talk about when she was a girl", and of her memories of visiting the great-grandfather, a Lancashire clogger with his own shop:
2. Its present director is Sidney Newey, a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes.
3. Himself, he was a railwayman who travelled all over the country, campaigned in more than 20 constituencies and was elected a Labour councillor in three towns.
4. He describes his other grandmother as "a wee frail woman" in a mob cap, smoking a long clay pipe and "stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap", while her railwayman husband also "had a great liking for me, and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for "whiteheaded Benny", he did it, Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard", a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school, "swanking" with it hung across my chest."
5. Improving ratios might have satisfied officials at headquarters but have only produced harder work and often more complaints from the public for the railwayman out on the system.
6. Significantly, it was a Scottish Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the son of a Highland railwayman, who was given charge of reforming the legal profession in England and Wales.
7. "Me grandfather, aye, I can remember me grandad", a Durham railwayman's son recalled, "A very old man he looked to be with long white whiskers.
8. A Lancashire railwayman's son remembers how in his street the men and women insured older neighbours as a speculation:
9. Some railwayman must have opened the doors, perhaps sensing he was in trouble.
10. THE railwayman at Charing Cross was surprisingly forthcoming about return routes to Hastings.
11. Shrewsbury, the Sorbonne and Pembroke College, Oxford, enabled me, or so I thought, to pass for white, although of my grandfathers one had been a railwayman on the London and Northwestern and the other a clerk in Bristol Gas Works.
12. Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman's thinking in the formative years of BR.
13. He proved himself to be thoroughly professional as a railwayman and ruthless as a manager.