The same photo, only slightly clearer and with the signal included! It features in John Hutton's excellent reference book 'The Taff Vale Railway' - Volume 3. [197]
Horses were also used to shunt wagons at the docks and life as a shunter was hard and dangerous whether using steam or equine power, and especially in the darkness at midnight, as this report taken from the Railway Review [141] of 4th January 1884 illustrates:
"Accident at the Penarth Docks.- On last Thursday midnight Chas. McCarthy, 19, of 37, Tyndall-street, was admitted to the Infirmary badly injured. He had been engaged near the new dock, and was driving a team of horses attached to some railway trucks, when his foot slipped and got fast in the points. He was unable to extricate himself, and the wagons coming in contact with him knocked him down and passed over his leg. Amputation of the injured limb above the knee became necessary."