yeoman service

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yeoman service

  1. Alternative form of yeoman's service
    • 1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 321:
      Though largely ousted on main-line duties by the 4-6-0, this type [the 4-4-0] performed yeoman service on express work during the latter part of the last century and the early part of this.