Examples of footplate

• He gazed at the driver and his mate on the footplate. 

• I put a soldier with fixed bayonet on the footplate to see that the driver held to his post and did not play tricks with the train, and started on our journey. 

• Kent clambered to the footplate of the smart eight-wheeler. 

• The engine was about six inches wider than the tender, and the corner of its footplate would not pass the corner of the newly overturned truck. 

• A probable partial stapes with a robust footplate and slender shaft is preserved on the right, just anterior to the cone-shaped structure (above).

• Length/height was determined with a locally constructed length board on which a model, non-expandable tape was fixed between the footplate and head bar, on one side of the board.

• One might say that speculators from the ticket office to the footplate are in for a real bonanza.

• The fact is that there were engine-drivers who were almost afraid to go upon the footplates of their engines because of their unsatisfactory condition.

• They are the men who work on the footplate or who are employed as porters.

• I do not find children who have attended fee-paying schools at the coal face, on the footplate, driving buses or on the workshop floor.

• Sometimes these men do a spare turn on the footplate.

• If the footplate is so overmanned, why is it that when footplate staff do not work overtime the railways grind to a halt?

• If times change and fewer men are needed on the permanent way or the footplate, there are plenty of other industries crying out for recruits.

• His feet were bleeding from resting on the footplate for so long.

• The men on the footplate have driven trains in the midst of air raids.

• We have locomotive and footplate men and others tied up all day doing very little other than drive peak-hour trains.

• The installation of brakes is important, and the shortage of footplate staff at the present time presents a difficult problem.

• Railway operations are most affected by shortage of experienced footplate staff and shunters.

• When is the colour bar on the footplate to end?