“FOOTPLATE” на російській мові

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.