When is the colour bar on the footplate to end?
Railway operations are most affected by shortage of experienced footplate staff and shunters.
The installation of brakes is important, and the shortage of footplate staff at the present time presents a difficult problem.
We have locomotive and footplate men and others tied up all day doing very little other than drive peak-hour trains.
The men on the footplate have driven trains in the midst of air raids.
His feet were bleeding from resting on the footplate for so long.
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.
If the footplate is so overmanned, why is it that when footplate staff do not work overtime the railways grind to a halt?
