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I found this little snippet
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Shunting was an activity
which was carried out a lot in
railway goods yards. It
involved moving wagons
around, the purpose being to
get them into the right
position for loading or
unloading, or to assemble a
group of wagons ready for
picking up by a passing
freight train.
In busy yards shunting
was done by small locomotives,
but at quiet country
stations
horses did the job.
Horse shunting continued
until as late as 1967 when
Charlie, the last railway
horse, was retired from
Newmarket station.
Unquote"
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