How To Use shunter In A Sentence
- Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
- According to Mr Hiller, his shunter has to withstand decelerations of 5g (ie, five times the force of the Earth's gravitational field).
- Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
- More than 800 railway shunters, signal operators and pointsmen from 10 stations across Sri Lanka struck for 24 hours on May 26 to demand a salary increase.
- These were the employees who operated the railway: the station staff, the signalmen, the shunters and the guards on the trains.
- Andrew's tutorage I had learned to distinguish the rumble of a "goods" from the rush of a "passenger," a two-engine haul from a single, and even the heavy voice of the big old "shunter" that lived about the Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
- These are of course available only at decennial intervals, and the Statistical Office translated ‘railway employment’ to mean those jobs which could not be done other than on the railway - signalman, guard, platelayer, shunter, etc.
- The total included carmen, seamen from the cross-Channel ferries, hotel and catering staff as well as those more predictable grades of cleaner, fireman, guard, shunter and driver.
- Anthony, who also works on the railway as a shunter, took up running after seeing how it improved Martin's fitness.
- The crew consisted of the stoker and driver, the guard and assistant guard, the shunter, the station master (or should I say ‘person’) and the signalman.
