How To Use Footplate In A Sentence
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He started acting as a footplate inspector on Flying Scotsman in 1967 and recalls how he couldn't resist ‘having a go on the shovel.’
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Next in importance after Ashford in east Kent were the running depots (engine sheds) of the two rival lines, where a number of engines were based, cleaned and maintained, and where the majority of the footplate crews were based.
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Stair footplate can choose wooden floor and shop carpet.
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Results: The results showed that the effusion of the middle ear decrease the amplitude of stapes footplate and umbo, weaken the incoming energy of the inner ear, thus leading to hearing loss.
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Former fireman Alan Richardson rode 3,000 miles on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman during its triumphant American tour in 1969 when it hauled a train from Boston to Houston.
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Since British Railways withdrew steam in 1968, the number of footplate crews qualified to drive steam locomotives on the main line has dropped dramatically, and the few left are approaching retirement age.
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From tomorrow until February 20, Thomas is taking a break from his branch line to visit the Museum, where young people will be able to stand on the footplate of the ‘Really Useful Engine’ and meet some of his friends from the Island of Sodor.
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The ‘Cab It’ event, which takes place this weekend, will see rare access offered to the cabs and footplates of 15 former BR locomotives and engines.
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It was kept in the signal box at Barnoldswick Junction, handed up to the fireman on the footplate as the train passed and handed back when it returned.
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Several deputy editors and the press had footplate rides.
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He stood on the footplate at the rear of the train and held on for seven miles as the train reached speeds of 60 mph.
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When due for shopping, they can give an exciting ride, far from appreciated on the footplate.
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That shot from the footplate supposedly heading eastwards was quite definitely taken travelling in the opposite direction.
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The royal train will be travelling under steam on the Settle-Carlisle railway line and there are strong rumours that he will don overalls and take to the footplate, driving a steam train over Ribblehead Viaduct.
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You simply stepped onto the footplate at the rear which was only about a foot from the ground.
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It is strongly rumoured that he will take to the footplate and drive the steam train for part of the way along the route, which will stop at Kirkby Stephen and Appleby Stations.
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The footplate moved up and down so it alternately bent and straightened the ankle, forcing the fibres within the muscles to alternately lengthen and shorten.
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WIRED Thick footplate offers springy sensation on ascents.
Wired Top Stories
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As train fans queued for the chance of a photograph on the footplate of the locomotive Yorkshire Post readers helped keep in this country, Mr Higton recalled his training in the Doncaster railway works which built Flying Scotsman in 1923.
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The mechanism seems to be that noise energy is transmitted from the stapes footplate into the vestibular part of the labyrinth, especially to the sacculus and the utriculus.
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Be full of the design of period flavor, stair uses stripe clarity normally, chromatic and slight the footplate that perhaps uses natural primary colors, match again in order to design simple armrest.
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Footplate, baluster and armrest are stair gives a person the most intuitionistic " figure " , they also are the mainest component of stair, matter to us really " body home life " .
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When the train stopped the stationmaster spoke to the engine driver and the footplateman.
The Key to Rebecca
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‘He travelled in style on the footplate,’ said John.
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Did you know (he declaimed triumphantly, shedding the opera-cloak to reveal an anorak) that during WWII there were a number of accidents (all crown-sheet failures) in American locomotives in use here which were caused by the inability of British footplatemen to read their modern and sophisticated Klinger reflex-type water-gauges?
Libertarian Blog Place
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Prince Philip stepped up to the footplate of Mallard, the world's fastest steam locomotive, before moving into The Works, where pupils from Poppleton Road School in York were enjoying a storytelling session.
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The most appealing of these grades is indisputably the footplate workers, with signallers running second.
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We also see Bar Convent schoolgirls fulfilling every schoolboy's dream by standing on a locomotive's footplate.
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The 120 year-old Footplate steam locomotive is named for its large metal footplate, which is full width of the locomotive and extends all the way from the front buffer beam to the back buffer beam.
ETravelBlackboard.com
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By sheet valuation is aimed at stair of high-grade fact wood more, press stair namely all component quote, include general column, large post, columella , baluster, armrest, footplate, expand screw.
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On the footplate behind me, my javel-ineer was making deadly practice.
River God
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The stapes has a large footplate which fits into the oval window of the inner ear and transduces the physical movement of the bones back into pressure waves in the perilymph of the inner ear.
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The footplate of the stirrup which serves as the innermost link of the ossicle chain is movably mounted in the opening of the oval window of the inner ear which faces the middle ear.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 - Presentation Speech
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I had wedged a block of wood under the footplate so I could hold a steady course, but it kept shifting under the pressure of my foot.
Rowing the ATLANTIC
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But the thick footplate had one unforeseen advantage: On uphill hauls the stiffness actually lends a spring-like feeling, flexing just enough to give you the impression that you're being propelled upwards.
Wired Top Stories
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Prince Charles will arrive in Pickering on the footplate of a steam locomotive on Monday, October 2, only five days after his brother, Andrew, visits Helmsley.
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And it's around 40 years since he rode on the footplate as a fireman when the line was part of the national rail network.
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The pair were standing on the footplate of his locomotive.
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IN 1969 notices went up in rail depots across the nation asking for volunteers to work on the footplate of steam locomotive Flying Scotsman during a forthcoming promotional visit to the US.
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Rail buffs could take a step back in time to Swindon's golden rail era age and get spliced on the footplate of a vintage locomotive at Steam.
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As my boat drifted out between the lines of moored yachts, I strapped my feet onto the footplate and grasped the textured rubber grips of the oars.
Rowing the ATLANTIC
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Gregory interpreted Phlegethonia as fossorial, based upon the highly ossified braincase, forward position of the jaws, large round stapedial footplate, and low neural spines, which it has in common with amphisbaenids.
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I fussed around, making a few last-minute adjustments to the footplate.
Rowing the ATLANTIC
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While the boot offers great heel and ankle support, the footplate feels too flexible and the upper too flimsy for extended trips with a 40-pound pack.
Wired Top Stories
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The youngster was hauled out from between the platform and the train by bystanders after falling from a footplate during yesterday's busy rush hour.
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They might weigh up to ninety tons, but footplate staff always referred to their warm and trembling steam locomotives (each marked by its individual, if not always tractable, character) as ‘she’.
