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Unite represents 11 trucker and shunter drivers who work for the company and will be taking part in the strikes between 11 August and 6 October.

Public transport workers including bus drivers, cleaners and shunters are set to begin strike action on Tuesday.

But his favourite role was working as a shunter, which involved taking the diesel engines off the trains, and rubbing shoulders with royalty.

Comerford, who is sixty-two, worked for a year and a half as a shunter, tipping molten slag out of huge ladles from the furnaces.

As the war progressed women took on the better paid but more hazardous posts of track maintenance platelayer, shunter and guard.