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James the Red Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tender locomotive from The Railway Series children's books by the Reverend Awdry and the TV series adaptation Thomas & Friends. [1] James is the number 5 engine on the North Western Railway , the Fat Controller 's railway on the Island of Sodor .
James is very proud of his splendid red coat, and he spends his time looking at his reflection in the canal, instead of helping Percy at the coaling plant. To make up for lost time, James takes a very long line of Troublesome Trucks from the coaling plant to the docks, which soon ruins his coat.
The locomotive has been out of service since 2001 and has been painted as James the Red Engine. It departed the line in August 2014 following the expiration of its loan agreement and is currently stored at Swanage following cosmetic restoration. [8] Swanage Railway: BR Lined Black No. 31806 SR U Class 2-6-0
James has recently been repainted red and given the proper brakes for his wheels and is eager to show off. Unfortunately, he is rather careless and gets into a lot of trouble (in James and the Bootlace , James is grumpy after being threatened with blue paint and having to fetch his own coaches), but by making some troublesome trucks behave and ...
The Class 28 was the inspiration for the character James the Red Engine from The Railway Series books by the Rev W Awdry, and the spin-off TV series Thomas and Friends. [3] Awdry describes James as an experimental rebuild as a 2-6-0 with 5 ft 6 in driving wheels. The other obvious visual difference from the Class 28 is the lack of a leading ...
Like its predecessor, this book was a success, and Awdry was asked to write stories about James, a character who first appeared in Thomas and the Breakdown Train, the final story in Thomas the Tank Engine. The book James the Red Engine appeared in 1948, the year in which the railways in Britain were nationalised, and from this point onwards ...
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."
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.