The Shunter is 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, firemen or workmen usually do the job.
Uniform
A North Western Railway shunter's uniform consists of blue trousers, a black tie, a white shirt, a blue jacket, with brown overalls and either a brown cap or hardhat, identical to the uniform of a standard workman.
Locations
- Accidents
- Stations
- Sheds
- Depots
- Factories
- Constructions
- Quarries and Mines
- Harbours
- Junctions
- Forests
- Farms
- Flour Mills
- Warehouses
- Beaches/Seaside
- Canals
- Railway Lines/Trackworks
- Railway Sidings
- Roadworks
- Windmills
- Water Towers
- The Washdown
- The Works
- Sodor Steamworks
- Vicarstown Dieselworks
- Signal Boxes
- Sodor Animal Park
- Shunting Yards
- Scrapyards
- Sodor Ironworks
- Crocks Scrap Yard
- The Coaling Plant
- The Coal Hopper
- Sodor Search and Rescue Centre
- Brendam Docks
- Sodor Shipping Company
- Sodor Airport
- Ulfstead Castle
- The Lumber Mill
- Whiff's Waste Dump
- The Steelworks (Mainland)
- The Great Railway Show Yard (Mainland)
- Bridlington Goods Yard (Mainland)
Trivia
- Despite the shunters use a shunter’s pole to couple and uncouple engines and rolling stock, in reality this is practice that is slowly obsolete as shunters would hold the coupling chain and slip them on the draw hook.
- Practically because shunter’s pole was withdrawn during BR days in 1950s
Voice Actors
- Hikaru Midorikawa (Japan; Daisy)
- Petteri Hynönen (Finland; Tale of the Brave)
- Klaus Gerner (Germany; Snow is Great! and Thomas and the Circus)