How To Use Shunter In A Sentence
-
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.
-
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab.
WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie
-
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab.
WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie
-
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
-
The poor shunter - he's the one who has to go home and explain the love-bites to his missus.
A Fire Raging in Islington
-
Many jobs were no more nor less dangerous than thousands of posts in other walks of life, but for shunters, goods guards and brakesmen, permanent way staff and platelayers the story was different.
-
These were the employees who operated the railway: the station staff, the signalmen, the shunters and the guards on the trains.
-
Leaning on the arm of her mother for support, Mrs Neha told the inquiry that her husband had become a shunter after being made redundant as a locomotive engineer.
-
On our way back we called in at the field centre, a converted ex-shunter's cabin.
-
There were no passengers on board, there would have been a driver or a shunter involved but there are no injuries.
-
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
-
These were the employees who operated the railway: the station staff, the signalmen, the shunters and the guards on the trains.
-
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
-
Maltomeetim, alltomatetam, when a tale tarries shome shunter shove on.
Finnegans Wake
-
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.
-
I'm some shunter myself; but I dip the colors to Aunty: she does it so neat and sudden!
Torchy, Private Sec.
-
Samta, who is the only woman, will too have to go through the defined hierarchy of assistant loco pilot, shunter, goods loco pilot, passenger loco pilot and then Mail/Express loco pilot.
The Times of India
-
He was shunting locos in the yard at Wembley one night accompanied by the shunter.
Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
-
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
-
Arthur, now 73 was working as a shunter in the railways and Alma, 69 worked as a credit assistant at the Morses store in Swindon.
-
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
-
The shunter had one of the railway's most dangerous jobs, particularly in the Enfield yards - the largest in Australia, containing over one hundred miles of track.
-
Hear the sheer drag of scythe on metal the shunter makes at the curve of the viaduct while, with elongated wail, rolls three spoil-wagons to the hollow hill.
Unmanned
-
On the same day points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway Dematagoda work site suddenly walked out on strike on October 20 to protest the withholding of overtime pay.
-
Points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway work site in Maligawatte, Colombo struck on October 25 over a management decision to cut two hours' overtime pay from every 24 hours worked.
-
Rachel did this by 'herself' with the shunter watching - when 'she' had finished 'she' said to the shunter testily "If you had been a gentleman you would have done that for me." to which the shunter said "And if you had been a lady I would have done.
Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
-
Engine and shunting drivers, technologists and their assistants, shunters, points-men and signalers were involved.
-
Many jobs were no more nor less dangerous than thousands of posts in other walks of life, but for shunters, goods guards and brakesmen, permanent way staff and platelayers the story was different.
-
On throwing the handle over, and against the end of the wagon, the crank moves over and below the center, lifting up the catch into a position out of range of action, and from this position it cannot fall except it is released by the shunter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887