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Bear: NWR D3/BR D7101 A green (originally blue) mixed-traffic diesel engine who works on the main line. Originally numbered "D7101", he first came to Sodor in 1967. 7101 suffered from a leaking brake ejector and was helped by Henry along with 199. 7101 was nicknamed "Bear" due to the "growling" sound his engine makes. He was given a new number ...
The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. It was the first 4-6-2 (Pacific) locomotive used on a railway in Great Britain, [ 2 ] and the only one of its type built by the GWR.
The Cathedral Class would have featured similar features from other locomotives in the UK, such as having 4-cylinders, an all-new tender design from the Hall Class and 1000 County Class that would come years later, same pony truck from the King Class 4-6-0s, different trailing bogie design coming from the LMS Princess Royal Class 4-6-2 Pacifics and, the same body design from the LMS Princess ...
Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor.There are 42 books in the series, the first published in May 1945 by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry.
The 4073 or Castle Class are 4-6-0 steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway, built between 1923 and 1950. [2] They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working the company's express passenger trains. [3]
A Class J70 steam tram on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, early 1950s. Toby is based on a J70 tram engine from the Great Eastern Railway (GER Class C53). [1] His cowcatchers and sideplates allow him to run on roadside tramways, which other engines are not allowed to do for safety reasons. [2]
The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, [i] a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route.