Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.
No platelayer other than the foreman shall be authorised to undertake any work interfering with the free passage of trains.
It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great.
The platelayer, it is said, is instructed to wear a red tie so that on emergency it may be used as a danger signal.
One of them explicitly declared his envy of a platelayer whom the train passed on the line.
