"footplateman" meaning in English

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          "text": "Alternative form: footplate man"
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          "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.",
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          "ref": "2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:",
          "text": "Footplatemen, organised not by the NUR but by ASLEF, had threatened to strike in August 1917 in demand of an eight-hour day.",
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        "A railway worker who is either a locomotive engineer or a fireman."
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        "(UK, rail transport) A railway worker who is either a locomotive engineer or a fireman."
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