"Travelling shunter"

[Western Sunset]

My wife is doing a bit of family history, and her grandad was a "travelling shunter" on the Southern Railway. Any idea what one of those were?

 

[hexagon789]

My wife is doing a bit of family history, and her grandad was a "travelling shunter" on the Southern Railway. Any idea what one of those were?

A shunter who would 'travel', to perform the duties of shunter at more remote locations which had no permanent locally based shunting staff or at busier locations as required where either there were no local staff or insufficient local staff to handle the traffic at certain times.

 

[Western Sunset]

Thanks.