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surfaceman
surfaceman (ˈsɜːfəsmən) Pl. -men. [f. surface n. 3 b + man n.1] A miner or other labourer who works at the surface, or in the open air; on a railway, a workman who keeps the permanent way in repair.1878 (title) Songs of the Rail. By Alexander Anderson, Railway Surfaceman,..Dumfriesshire. 1900 Yorksh...
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Alexander Anderson (poet)
Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman. The Life-History of Alexander Anderson-“Surfaceman". 1929. Inveresk. 139pp
Brown, Alexander. Later Poems of Alexander Anderson, "Surfaceman."
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Geoff Bent
He was the only child of Clifford Bent, a surfaceman at Sandhole Colliery, and his wife Clara (née Dunning).
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surface
▪ I. surface, n. (ˈsɜːfəs) [ad. F. surface (from 16th c.), f. sur- sur- + face face n., after L. superficiēs: cf. obs. Sp. sobrehaz, Sp. sobrefaz, Pg. sobreface, and superfice, superficie, superficies.] 1. a. The outermost boundary (or one of the boundaries) of any material body, immediately adjacen...
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Kirkconnel railway station
He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.
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Carsbreck railway station
A roughcast two storey building, 'Brick House', thought to have been a surfaceman and crossing keeper's dwellings dating from Scottish Central Railway
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Tui railway station
main goods shed with dimensions of and a second smaller goods shed; a loading bank; an outhouse; a railway house (for many years occupied by the local surfaceman
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Maymorn railway station
passenger shelter on the main line platform (the shelter on the second platform has long been removed), a couple of equipment buildings, and a shed for a surfaceman's
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