"footplate man" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "footplate men",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "footplate man (plural footplate men)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293",
          "text": "The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845",
          "text": "Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The engineer, or driver of a locomotive"
      ],
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          "locomotive",
          "locomotive"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "footplate man"
}

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    {
      "form": "footplate men",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293",
          "text": "The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845",
          "text": "Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The engineer, or driver of a locomotive"
      ],
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  "word": "footplate man"
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