shunter


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a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips

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Shunters are used in rail yards to assemble trains and make short hauls.
He has also worked as a shunter at Duddeston Mill, been a university testing technician and tried employment in California for six months.
General Electric Company of the USA are rehabilitating a Class 47E shunter locomotive at a cost of $300,000.
Freight logistics firm AV Dawson is taking on HGV, crane and shunter drivers as well as material handlers and electricians among other roles.
GE Transportation will design and manufacture up to 300 shunter locomotives for KTZ, with delivery beginning in 2019.
The museum is home to a Mazda diesel-electric shunter, an extensive array of electric locomotives and the 2-EPB unit complete with street art livery by Warwickshire-based artist Rumah, which depicts the history of electric railways.
Ken Middlemist drove the small six-wheeled diesel shunter at Whittle Colliery, near Alnwick, in the 1980s.
Hammer The shunter would sort wagons into trains bound for different destinations and ensure the empties were returned to their loading points.
Joe O'Brien, aged 79, who still lives in Sandwell Street, Caldmore, where he was based at the time of the murder, worked on the railways as a shunter and recalled police searching wagons at Witton railway station.
The decision was influenced by Fenstanton's chief shunter, Alan Crouch, who, while impressed by Salvo's simplicity and ease-of-use, was particularly taken with the product's ability to put control of the loading procedure in the hands of shunters.
Mr Ford, who worked as a lorry shunter, collided with a car near the Alpine Corner and heading towards Ballaugh from Kirk Michael on the 37.7-mile course.
It would appear he had been caught driving the little shed shunter and having wonderful fun until caught by the shed foreman and handed over to the British Transport Commission Police.