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Meaning of "shunter"
shunter (noun) - in English, it is a term used in the context of railways and transportation. A shunter is a person responsible for moving train carriages or wagons within a rail yard or station
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- A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher.
- A person who carries out shunting operations.
- One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).
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Switcher or shunter locomotives help the composing.
This locomotive was mainly operated as a shunter.
Small shunter with vertical boiler.
A poem regarding the death of a shunter.
A regular shunter in the yard.
The shunter was then given instructions to take charge of the necessary shunting movements.
They say that an error shunter made to operate the train.
The vehicle pushed the group of wagons together according to the instructions of a shunter.
Position of shunter as ladle passed by.
The breakaway cars were now speeding up and the shunter failed to make it.
Switch shunter for the shunting of the wagons on the ship.
Two diesel locomotives and a battery electric shunter are used for engineering trains.
The train shunter died at the scene and the train driver later died in hospital.
It was mainly used as a shunter in Burg station.
A Diesel shunter is a diesel locomotive used for shunting or switching.
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Operational as a yard shunter at Oswestry.
The locomotive was later sold to Ravensdown for use as their plant shunter.
Once his signal was clear the shunter signalled the driver to start the movement.
Had Shunter Morland taken the initiative the accident might have been prevented.
A coupling is arranged between the robot 's tool shunter and the fixing element.
Sammy the Shunter appears in various books.
Used regularly on freight trains and shunting, the most powerful shunter on the line.
Frankie is a diesel shunter who works at the Steelworks on the Mainland along with Hurricane.
Bombardier Transportation 's accessible market also excludes the infrastructure, freight wagon and shunter segments.
Ivan is a Russian diesel shunter who participated in the Great Railway Show.
Today, the term " Dido " is used to describe any small shunter on the NZR network.
A battery-powered shunter is used to move trams on non-electrified tracks within the depot.
However the full number includes the type code " 98 ", so it is a diesel shunter.
Whilst here, the shunter coupled up the necessary vehicles and connected the brakes.
February 1896, a freight train loaded with eight trucks of dynamite was struck by a shunter while unloading.
Yard shunter at Dinas, spare passenger diesel.
Ivan is based on a TGM23 diesel shunter.
The 08 was the resident shunter at Lincoln Central for many years.
Shomoy James Mitchell as Diesel, [ 5 ] a black diesel shunter and one of Thomas 's more competitive friends.
After the War it was used as a shunter at Bricklayers Arms until 1951.
