engine cleaner

noun

An employee who cleans railway locomotives, especially steam locomotives in the days of steam.

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Meanings

nounengine cleaner (plural engine cleaners)

plural engine cleaners

  1. UKdatedrail transportAn employee who cleans railway locomotives, especially steam locomotives in the days of steam.

    Driver Langdale entered the service of the L.N.W.R. as an engine cleaner at Camden on April 25, 1898, at the age of 17, and has been stationed in the London area ever since.

    1943 September and October, “Top Link Drivers”, in Railway Magazine, page 293
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