A train of thought shunted its way through Hugh's mind.
It seems the original design (as with the Dymchurch bay platform) assumed trains would arrive and then shunt into a different departure platform to release the loco and turn.
Arriving trains empty of passengers then shunt to the other platform.
Wagons ran away while a mixed train was shunting at Duncrue siding near Carrickfergus.
A major gain in altitude is made at the Devil's Nose (Nariz del Diablo) where the train shunts back and forth along the rocky promontory.
On 30 August 1920 five people were killed when a train shunted into the back of a locomotive at Hurstville station.
As the two children were crossing the tracks, the train shunted backwards dragging Christiansen under and the dual set of wheels ran over his legs almost severing them.
The train was shunting backward.
The train shunted and jolted its way north with the occasional burst of speed to break the monotony of the sudden stops and starts.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any more depressing, the train shunted past three cars parked at the side of the road, nose to tail.