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  • n  an employee of a railroad

  • Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing.
  • Innes, 69, a crusty former railwayman, fights an unrelenting battle against commercial encroachment from his retirement house a few hundred meters from the soaking spray of the .
  • Herr Meier, a pensioned railwayman, thereby achieved a statistical distinction: he was the 300,000th refugee to escape to West Berlin in 1953, the biggest year of flight since .
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  • St Ambrose in BBC News
    But Mr Ambrose says others might not be so quick on the uptake: "Your traditional railwayman that's been on for 30-odd years, they were taught completely differently - to brake really hard to start with - and some of them tend to be set in their...

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