'Arry and Bert

"Pah! I could take those two with bent buffers and a busted boiler!"

- James, "Middle Engine", sixth season

    'Arry and Bert  'Arry and Bert are two diesels who work for the Sodor Ironworks at the smelters.
 * Class: BR Class 08
 * Builder: BR Works of Crewe, Darlington, Derby and Doncaster
 * Built: 1953
 * Configuration: 0-6-0

Bio
'Arry and Bert are simply downright villainous troublemakers. They have been known to attempt to scrap Stepney, make Percy and James "middle engines", and make the engines believe Neville was planning to bump them. According to merchandise bios, they also wish to scrap Oliver.

Persona
'Arry and Bert are unquestionably devious and scheming. Although at first they had a heartened dislike for steam engines, they appear to have accustomed to their smoke-puffing companions and now only have a "friendly rivalry" with them.

Basis
'Arry and Bert are BR Class 08 shunters. Their models were repainted from Splatter and Dodge's after the filming of "Thomas and the Magic Railroad".

Livery
'Arry and Bert are painted green-grey with yellow hazard stripes on their fronts and rears and yellow cabs. They have "Sodor Ironworks" written on their sides in white.

Appearances
'Arry and Bert appeared in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth seasons. One also appeared in an intermission segment of the tenth season.

Both appeared in "Calling All Engines" and made cameos in "The Great Discovery".

Merchandising

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Learning Curve Wooden
 * Take-Along (normal and metallic)
 * Trackmaster
 * Hornby
 * Lionel
 * "My First Thomas" ('Arry only)
 * My Thomas Story Library

Trivia

 * The two are not quite identical: 'Arry has narrow eyes, while Bert has stubble and a deep voice with a West London accent.
 * In some merchandising the twins are named "Iron 'Arry" and "Iron Bert".
 * 'Arry and Bert's Hornby models have Splatter and Dodge's faces.
 * The metallic release of 'Arry and Bert in Take-Along has a spelling error on the character card: it reads "'Arrt and Bert".
 * Some merchandise bios and even the Thomas and Friends website say Arry and Bert are called "The Grim Messengers of Doom" because of their grim job of melting down engines.