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horse shunting
At a gala quite some years ago the Festiniog had a welsh cob demonstrating slate waggon shunts at Harbour Station between trains, The weekly notice had an instruction to the effect that drivers of iron horses were requested/required not to frighten the live horse, there was a model (glass fibre I think) in the horse dandy as well, you see!
(Also, the empty slate waggons went back up to the quarries by horse haulage before The Prince and The Princess arrived)
Although the filing system has failed, ie I can't find my copy at the moment - it may be on loan to a friend, I remember reading a little while ago a book about Railway Horses, in which a 'Charlie' was mentioned as one of the two last shunters and his honhourable retirement was noted.
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