Shunter

Shunters are responsible for coupling and uncoupling engines from trains using a long pole with a hook on the end called a shunter's pole. When there is no shunter around, a fireman or a workman usually does the job. They have appeared more regularly since the twelfth season.

Locations

 * Accidents
 * Stations
 * Sheds
 * Depots
 * Factories
 * Constructions
 * Quarries and Mines
 * Harbours
 * Junctions
 * Forests
 * Flour Mills
 * Windmills
 * Warehouses
 * The Washdown
 * The Works
 * Sodor Steamworks
 * Sodor Dieselworks
 * Signal Boxes
 * Shunting Yards
 * Scrapyards
 * Crocks Scrap Yard
 * The Coaling Plant
 * The Coal Hopper
 * Sodor Search and Rescue Centre
 * Brendam Docks
 * Sodor Shipping Company
 * Ulfstead Castle
 * The Lumber Mill
 * Whiff's Waste Dump

Trivia

 * Shunters dress identically to workmen; a blue suit with overalls, and with either a flat cap or a hard hat.

Voice Actors

 * Keith Wickham (UK/US; Tale of the Brave)
 * Kōhei Miyauchi (Japan; Daisy)