brakesman


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brakesman

(ˈbreɪksmən)
n, pl -men
(Mining & Quarrying) a pithead winch operator
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brakesman

[ˈbreɪksmən] N (brakesmen (pl)) → encargado m del montacargas de la mina
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On the front platform was the driver and brakesman Edward Harris, and beside him stood 12-yearold Margaret Worthington, homeward bound after her daily duty of taking lunch to her father who worked in the winding shed halfway up the track.
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George Stephenson, then aged 23, took a job in 1804 at West Moor Pit as a brakesman.
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It was 200 years ago on Saturday that a colliery brakesman demonstrated his newly-invented miners' safety lamp to a gathering on Tyneside.
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As a brakesman in 1811 when the pumping engine kept breaking down at High Pit, Killingwoth, Stephenson offered to have a go at fixing it, resulting in him being given responsibility for the maintenance of all colliery engines in the region, soon he became an expert in steam driven machines and as they say the rest is history.
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When all was in order head brakesman Ian Wilkinson waved his flag and the brakes were released.
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