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Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, published from 1945.He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation Thomas & Friends and its reboot Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.
A red (originally blue) 0-4-2 saddle tank engine and is named after Sir Handel Brown, the first manager. His original name was Falcon, after the Falcon Works where he was built. Sir Haydn: Peter Sam: SR/MSR 4 A red (originally green) 0-4-2 saddle tank engine who lives and works on the Skarloey Railway and is named after the previous controller.
Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
All of the stories in Series 1 were originally written by the Rev. W. Awdry, including a one-off story commissioned by the staff, Thomas' Christmas Party.The seven engines introduced in this series became the core of the cast in later episodes, with crew member (and from Series 8–12, director) Steve Asquith terming them the "Magnificent Seven". [1]
The series in Japan is known as Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (きかんしゃトーマスとなかまたち), and is dubbed in Japanese. [55] Unlike the original English dub where the live-action model seasons of the series had the characters be consistently voiced by a single narrator, the Japanese dub featured a full voice cast for all ...
A little oil-burning saddle tank engine who works at the Sodor China Clay Company with Bill, Ben, and Marion. Bell Open Cab Oil Burner Tim Whitnall Gator: A large green tank engine that ends up on Sodor from Colombia by mistake. Colombia Steam Motor Clive Mantle: Marion [2] An orange rail-mounted steam shovel. She usually works at the Clay Pits ...
More About Thomas the Tank Engine: 22 September 1986: 31: Gordon the High-Speed Engine: 7 September 1987: Pip & Emma 32: Toby, Trucks and Trouble: 19 September 1988: The Old Engine · Bulstrode 33: Thomas and the Twins: 11 September 1989: 34: Jock the New Engine: 6 August 1990: Arlesdale Railway engines: Frank · Jock 35: Thomas and the Great ...
Introduces Toby, Henrietta, Percy, Bertie and Harold.; Thomas does not at all appear in this book despite appearing in "Bertie's Chase" and "Percy Proves a Point". In the original print, the sentence line "It was such an insult to be reminded of the time a bootlace had been used to mend a hole in his coaches."