Small railroad locomotive intended for assembling trains.
Railway worker specialized in shunting.
1 Limited proposals for a small-scale heritage railway, deploying the restored shunter , also seemed to be going nowhere.
2 This fair will also include a piece of old Irish railway memorabilia, a very large shunter 's master key.
3 A bright blue 1950s shunter , straight from the pages of Thomas the Tank Engine, sits next to a 1920s railway carriage used for storage.
4 Coupling under slow movement, the wagons being shunted together by two shunters .
5 Intelligent non-commissioned officers and men were converted into shunters , guards, and pointsmen.
6 The little chimney of the van smokes, and I hear the voices of guards and shunters talking cheerily together.
7 'We'll get you there in time, sir, if we have to go clear through the shunters .
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