The adjustment of the length of trains to the fluctuations of the service is made easier by the absence, in the multiple-unit system, of the necessity of shunting at the termini.
With steam traction the number of trains which may enter or leave a terminus is limited by the time occupied in shunting and by the necessity of leaving lines of rails free for that operation.
No lines have to be kept open for shunting locomotives, so that the available accommodation for trains is considerably increased.
From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance.
In Woking junction, until a late hour, trains were stopping and going on, others were shunting on the sidings, passengers were alighting and waiting, and everything was proceeding in the most ordinary way.
We tried it all along the line after that; my own belief is that we should still be at the unknown place, without that letter, shunting trucks.
The shunting at night in particular is wearing to the temper, especially in the winter time, when it is mostly dark in an hour or two whenever your train happens to start.
What did they want to be shunting trucks for, with the train just due?
But if there was anybody else in love with her, if she cared the least bit about anybody else, wouldn't I go straight to her and insist on her shunting that fellow aside?
I don't mean in being vexed with me, but in shunting me off, as it were, instead of having it out at once.
In the last-mentioned case the endings have been preserved in a purer form, while in the former the shunting or changing law is observed.
At Calais it was discovered that the kitchen had been left behind, in shunting a store waggon, so we have been hung up all day waiting for it at St Omer.
Last night they were shunting and jigging us about all night between Rouen and Sotteville.
On account of this shunting effect the current dies out sooner in the gaps, GM, than it otherwise would.
General Electric 2,200 volt arrester in the act of discharging, and shunting the line current.
At this instant the medium resistance, M, aids the rectifying quality of the gaps, GM, by shunting out the low frequency current of the alternator.
The resistance of this coil is so proportioned to the other parts of the circuit as to prevent the illumination of the lamp just exactly as in the case of the shunting resistances of the lamps in the A-operator's cord.
A further interesting element is the very heavy shunting of the telephone receiver by means of an inductive coil.
The effect is the same as would be produced by shunting across the line at each point an infinitesimal condenser having a capacity equal to that of an infinitesimal length of circuit.
Instantly the dull gray blank of the shunting screen became transformed into a clear and colorful picture of the great city of the Jovians of the South.
That was a shunting case, that was, with a goods train, at a little station, past which we on the express down used to go at the rate I said just now.
On this occasion a variety of experiments in haulage and shunting were shewn, and for part of each day two trains were run concurrently.
To perform shunting operations with caution, taking care that all point-lever weights are left in their proper position.
He shall perform no fly-shunting with the engine pushing, and in draw-shunting he shall proceed with the utmost caution.
Hand shunting of vehicles on sidings shall be done carefully, so as to avoid injury to the rolling stock; but no vehicle shall be moved at all except by an authorised person.
Through accident or design, what is known as a "blind switch" had been turned while the engine was shunting the accommodation car about the yards.
It was all very confusing to Phil, and he was in constant fear of being run down by switching engines that were shunting cars back and forth as fast as they were loaded, rapidly making up the circus train.
Tugs were shunting car barges, and an occasional steam craft passed, but nowhere was there a sign of a motor-boat or of the fugitive Germans.
The car rolled up to the bridge and passed over the dark waters where tugs were shunting car-floats into their docks and churning up white foam with their propellers.
The danger lies in this, that shunting has frequently to be done during intervals between the passing of passenger-trains, and, on lines where passenger and goods traffic is very great, these intervals are sometimes extremely brief.
There he was continually employed in shifting the points for the shunting of trains, none of which dared to move, despite their mighty power and impatience, until Will Garvie gave them leave.
It appeared, on inquiry, that in the course of the shunting the coupling-chain which connected the tail coach with the body of the train had by some means become unlinked; hence the accident.
Occasionally, moreover, the monotony of progress was interrupted by the shunting of the train into a siding, where it might wait for more respectable passenger trains and fast goods to pass.
But the mottled gray behemoth was increasingly unstable, shunting sideways, drifting over the security fence and spiraling upward toward the mountain that bristled with SatCom's communications gear.
Then he realized the keyboard had an on/off switch, which was currentlyshunting it out of the system.
It was not an easy matter to force, with the column intact, an entrance into the line, and to prevent other and more influential columns from shunting us aside.
They could hear the shuntingup the track, interspersed with faint voices calling.
The port and the shunting yards are all lit at night with electricity, and ships can be illuminated.
There is the constant shunting of trains, the shrieking of cranes, and the swinging of derricks.
The normal shunting of the generator armature from the circuit of the line is advantageous in several ways.
Again, the normal shunting of the generator tends to save the generator armature from injury by lightning.
The symbols for magneto or hand generators usually embody a simplified side view, showing the crank and the gears on one side and the shunting or other switching device on the other.
As the trains run very frequently this appears to be a very economical arrangement, as no shunting tracks are needed for storage.
This is obviously very inconvenient for shunting purposes, especially as the cars are not provided with hand brakes and no chance to get at them if there were any.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shunting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
