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Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway (1992–2017, 2022–), later rebranded as Thomas & Friends Wood (2017–2021), is a wooden railway system designed and created by Learning Curve. It is one of two Wooden Railway lines that feature the characters from Thomas & Friends. The other is BRIO.
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, D3 ...
Bigjigs Rail is the wooden railway system from Bigjigs Toys Ltd. [43] There are over 130 different items in the Bigjigs Rail Range, compatible with all other wooden railway systems. Sio is a Dutch toy factory which produced wooden toys and trains. [44] [45] [circular reference] Kids-Wood, had a wooden toy train line including a road system. It ...
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.
The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive."
The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway. It is described as a permanent way because, in the earlier days of railway construction, contractors often laid a temporary track to ...
Tracks – The Train Set Game, [a] commonly referred to as Tracks, is an indie simulation video game developed by British indie studio Whoop Games and published by Excalibur Publishing for Microsoft Windows. Originally released onto Itch.io in February 2017, the game was added to Steam ' s Early Access program in September.
In the fictional town of Chuggington are young novice anthropomorphic railway locomotives, called "Trainees", Koko, Wilson, Brewster, Hoot, Toot and Piper. The trainees and sometimes the more experienced chuggers learn the value of loyal friendship, telling the truth, listening carefully, persisting under adversity, completing tasks, resolving conflict without violence and similar values.