Whilst most commonly used for small shunting engines, on some railways the term'Pug'was used for all tank engines.
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In SAR service, the Class C locomotives were used as shunting engines until the last one was withdrawn from service in 1940.
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This was later taken over by steam shunting engine'Sirapite'which was then replaced by a battery electric engine in 1962.
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The first locomotives to be produced were " Prairie " type " C " shunting engines, of which 12 were built at the Hutt Workshops.
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The allocation of locomotives to York North covered many classes of locomotive, ranging from small shunting engines to main line locomotives capable of hauling major express services.
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The Double Fairlies were later taken off mainline work and employed as dock shunting engines in East London Harbour, working between the wharf and the goods sheds.
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In 1911, the " L�deritzbucht Eisenbahn " ( L�deritzbucht Railway ) placed two Cape gauge 0-6-0T locomotives in service as shunting engines.
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When the group shifted to Seaview, RM 5 ( by then working again ) was used as an impromptu shunting engine to move the group's collection.
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Meanwhile, a shunting engine and three carriages were travelling through the tunnel away from the station having been warned by the station master about the runaway mail train.
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The advantages of this design are that change between forward and reverse gear can be made very quickly as is needed in, for example, a shunting engine.
