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Big City Engine: An express tender engine who worked for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and later British Railways. Once, he had gotten into an argument with Gordon and Duck about what was the name of the big station in London: King's Cross, Euston, Paddington, and St. Pancras. However, none of the engines realized that London had ...
In the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's 1957 children's book The Eight Famous Engines, Gordon the Big Engine undertakes a journey to London, hoping to reach King's Cross, but ends up at St Pancras instead. [103] In the 1994 children's book The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson. Platform 13 of King's Cross Station in London has been closed for years.
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A famous tender engine from the Great Western Railway, who once visited the Island of Sodor. He is one of the three real-world tender engines to have appeared in the main series. In the episode "Gordon & the Famous Visitor", he is only referred to as "The Famous Engine", although a banner outside the sheds features his name and number.
Virgin's role in the privatisation of British Rail was lampooned in Thomas the Privatised Tank Engine, a 1994 parody children's book published by Private Eye magazine. A send-up of The Railway Series by the Reverend W. Awdry , it mentions characters such as "Gordon the Virgin Engine" ( Gordon the Big Engine ) and "The Bearded Controller" ( The ...
The first known audio adaptation was a 7" (33⅓rpm) EP narrated by the Rev. W. Awdry himself (), with "background effects taken from real engines". This record, released in 1957 by Chiltern Records of Princes Risborough, contained two stories – Edward's Day Out and Edward and Gordon – from the first book in the Railway Series: The Three Railway Engines.
A little blue tank engine called Thomas lives and works at a big station on the Island of Sodor. He enjoys teasing the other engines, especially Gordon, the biggest and proudest tender engine of all. When Thomas gets carried away with the teasing, Gordon decides to teach him a lesson.
The Fat Controller is a fictional character in The Railway Series books written by Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.In the first two books in the series (The Three Railway Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine) he is known as The Fat Director, and as of the third book (James the Red Engine) he becomes The Fat Controller, as the railway has been nationalised.