Hiro of the railway7/20/2023 ![]() He first appears in the book Enterprising Engines, where he was caught in a tough spot so close to reaching Sodor and he was rescued by Douglas. The GWR 1400 class engines were fitted with a connector system allowing the driver to control the locomotive remotely from the cab of an 'autocoach', such as Isabel. 11, but displays his ex-GWR number, 1436) is an 0-4-2 T ex-Great Western Railway 1400 Class locomotive, who 'escaped' from the Other Railway where he was due to be scrapped. Although the Fat Controller had only purchased one engine and intended to send the other back to Scotland, he changed his mind after hearing how hard they worked clearing the lines of heavy snow, and decided to keep both engines. Knowing that one of them would have been scrapped if left behind, they made quiet arrangements with their crews to travel together minus visible numbers and hope for the best. 8, but displays his ex-GWR number, 5741) is an 0-6-0 PT ex- Great Western Railway 5700 Class locomotive.ĭonald and Douglas (Numbers 9 and 10) ĭonald and Douglas are identical black 0-6-0 ex- Caledonian Railway locomotives of the 652 Class who arrived on Sodor from Glasgow, Scotland in 1959. Toby is a blue and brown 0-6-0 tram engine, of the Great Eastern Railway's class C53.ĭuck (real name Montague No. Gordon is a big blue 4-6-2 ('Pacific') ex- London and North Eastern Railway Gresley Class A1 locomotive. Awdry claimed that it was a case of oversensitivity on the part of the race relations board, but he apologized and changed the offending sentence to "as black as soot", which has been used in subsequent editions of the book. In 1972, articles in the British press raised this as an example of racism. In 'Henry's Sneeze', the character blasts some troublemaking schoolboys with soot and they "ran away as black as niggers". ![]() Henry was the central character in a controversial Railway Series story. Henry is painted green with red stripes, and can sometimes come across as arrogant and rude, but he does work hard and has even been called an "'enterprising engine'". After getting various letters from children about the character, Awdry changed his mind and in the sixth book, Henry the Green Engine, Henry is damaged in an accident and rebuilt offsite at Crewe Works to the design of the Stanier "Black Five". Reginald Dalby's drawings made him look too similar to Gordon. There have been two Railway Series books devoted to him: Henry the Green Engine and Henry and the Express.Īwdry originally planned to write Henry out of the series, because C. He was built circa 1919 and arrived on Sodor in 1922 when Sir Topham Hatt was swindled into buying him. Henry was originally a 4-6-0 designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. ![]() He runs his own branch line with a diesel named BoCo, which travels from Wellsworth to Brendam. He is a blue mixed-traffic tender engine who works on the North Western Railway and is the railway's number 2 engine. He is the first character to appear in The Railway Series. Thomas is a blue 0-6-0 T ex- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E2 class locomotive.Įdward is an old blue 4-4-0 ex- Furness Railway K2 class locomotive.
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