Shunting Horse (1964)

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Newmarket, Suffolk.
A story about the way horses are used to pull railway carriages. Various shots of horses training in a field and in the stable yard. We see one horse eating in a field, Lawrence Kelly grooms him and puts a harness round his neck. A train drives by and they walk down the tracks. Lawrence hitches up the harness to a truck and the horse starts pulling the carriages. Signal man Jack Armstrong pulls the levers so the horse can go through, the train is shunted into position.
FILM ID:287.05
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@532bluepeter1 Год назад

This is a nearly forgotten part of railway history. Many stations had horses for goods shunting until the middle of the twentieth century. The provisioning of such a large number of horses across a system was an industrial operation. The Great Western Railway at Didcot having the huge horse provender stores for the collection, mixing, storage and distribution of horse provender.

@robotspark363 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant use of 'literal' horsepower!

@suereynolds6485 Год назад

When I was a child I used to ride on the back of Charlie between his daytime 'pasture' and his stable 🙂

@532bluepeter1 Год назад

Do you know when Butch and Charlie retired and which breed they were?

@suereynolds6485 Год назад

@@532bluepeter1 Charlie and Butch were both Shire Horses. Charlie was the last working shunt horse and retired in Feb 1967. Butch had retired a couple of years earlier

@532bluepeter1 Год назад

@@suereynolds6485 Thank you for replying. That is later than I would have thought. They looked like gentle giants. How did you mount them they being so tall?

@suereynolds6485 Год назад

@@532bluepeter1 the small 'pasture' enclosure had a wide metal gate. I would climb on the gate and with the help of his handler Mr Kelly scramble on to Charlie's back for a slow ride to the stable beside the rail tracks.