Timeline

This is a timeline chronicling the events of the Railway Series:

=1806=
 * Plateway from Ward Fell to Balladswail built.
 * The Skarloey Railway is opened.
 * Neil is built.

=1853=
 * The Sodor and Mainland Railway is built.

=1864=
 * Skarloey is built.
 * Talyllyn is built.

=1865=
 * Skarloey arrives on Sodor.
 * Rheneas is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Dolgoch is built.
 * Skarloey has trailing wheels added to improve stability, and has a cab installed.

=1870=
 * The Wellsworth-Suddery Railway is opened.

=1875=
 * Stepney is built.

=1879=
 * Duke is built.

=1880=
 * The Mid Sodor Railway is opened.
 * Victoria is built.
 * Sir Topham Hatt I is born.
 * The Mines Engine is built.

=1883=
 * The Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway is opened.

=1887=
 * Tim is built.

=1895=
 * Godred is built.
 * Ernest is built.
 * Wilfred is built.

=1896=
 * Edward is built.
 * Godred arrives on Sodor.
 * Ernest arrives on Sodor.
 * Culdee is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Shane Dooiney is built and arrives on Sodor.

=1897=
 * Construction on the Culdee Fell Railway begins.
 * Wilfred arrives on Sodor.
 * Percy is built.
 * The red engine is built.

=1898=
 * Jim is built.

=1899=
 * Donald and Douglas are built.

=1900=
 * The Culdee Fell Railway is opened.
 * Godred falls down the cliff and is taken out of service.

=1901=
 * The Culdee Fell Railway is re-opened after receiving further maintainance after the events of Godred's death.

=1903=
 * Toby is built.
 * Falcon is built.
 * Albert is built.

=1905=
 * Falcon is rebuilt with a rear pony truck.

=1911=
 * The Reverend W. Awdry is born.

=1912=
 * Stepney is rebuilt.

=1913=
 * Thomas is built.

=1914=
 * The North Western Railway is formed from the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light and the Wellsworth and Suddery railways.
 * Sir Topham Hatt II is born.

=1915=
 * Thomas arrives on Sodor.
 * James is built.
 * The Ballahoo tunnel is built.
 * The workshops at Crovan's Gate are established.

=1916=
 * The Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch is built.
 * Johnny Morris is born.

=1917=
 * Stanley is built.
 * The Peel Godred electric engines are built and arrive on Sodor.

=1918=
 * Duncan is built.

=1919=
 * Jerry is built.

=1920=
 * Edward arrives on Sodor.
 * Henry is built.
 * Trevor is built.
 * George is built.

=1921=
 * Edward is rebuilt with an enclosed cab and a Fowler tender.

=1922=
 * Gordon is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Henry arrives on Sodor.
 * Lord Harry is built.
 * The red engine arrives on Sodor.
 * 98462 and 87546 arrive on Sodor and are shortly sent packing.
 * A second bore is cut for the Ballahoo tunnel after Henry stops in the original.

=1923=
 * Victoria arrives on Sodor and is made into a summerhouse at an Elsbridge orchard.
 * Alaric is built.
 * Eric is built.
 * Stuart is built.
 * Rex is built.

=1924=
 * The Reverend Teddy Boston is born.

=1927=
 * Annie and Clarabel are built.
 * Merlin is renamed "Bert" and rebuilt into a 0-8-2 tender engine.

=1929=
 * Duck is built.
 * The spiteful breakvan is built.

=1932=
 * Oliver is built.
 * Blister I and Blister II are built.

=1934=
 * Terence is built.

=1937=
 * Willie Rushton is born.
 * George Carlin is born.

=1938=
 * David Mitton is born.

=1939=
 * Gordon is rebuilt with Stanier parts and a Fowler tender.

=1940=
 * Christopher Awdry is born.
 * Bulgy is built.
 * Toad is built.
 * Ringo Starr is born.

=1941=
 * Stephen Topham Hatt is born.

=1944=
 * Sixteen is built.

=1945=
 * Michael Brandon is born.

=1946=
 * James arrives on Sodor and is overhauled.
 * Thomas is given his branch line.
 * Stanley breaks down and is scrapped.

=1947=
 * The Mid Sodor Railway and the Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branches are closed.
 * Duke is sheeted and abandoned in a shed.
 * Falcon and Stuart are purchased by the aluminium works at Peel Godred for an expansion project.

=1948=
 * The North Western Railway becomes officially known as the "North Western Region of British Railways".
 * Bertie is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Terence arrives on Sodor.

=1949=
 * Henry, Gordon and James go on strike.
 * Percy arrives on Sodor.
 * Harold is built.

=1950=
 * Henry is overhauled.
 * Rheneas is overhauled.
 * Falcon and Stuart are sheeted.
 * Henry is rebuilt into an LMS Stanier Class 5 following his crash.
 * Fred is built.

=1951=
 * Toby's tramway closes down.
 * Toby arrives on Sodor.
 * Stuart and Falcon are purchased by the Skarloey Railway and renamed "Peter Sam" and "Sir Handel" respectively.

=1952=
 * Mavis is built.
 * Trevor is scrapped.
 * Queen Elizabeth II visits Sodor
 * Michael Angelis is born.

=1953=
 * Trevor is purchased by the Vicar.
 * Edward is overhauled.
 * Bill and Ben are built.
 * Diesel is built.
 * Wilbert is built.
 * Barry is built.

=1954=
 * Rusty is built.

=1955=
 * Duck arrives on Sodor.
 * Mark V is built and arrives on Sodor.

=1956=
 * Sir Topham Hatt I dies.
 * Daisy is built.
 * Ted Robbins is born.

=1957=
 * City of Truro visits to Sodor.
 * Diesel arrives on Sodor.

=1958=
 * BoCo is built.
 * Rusty arrives on Sodor.
 * Duncan arrives on Sodor.
 * Skarloey returns from being mended.
 * Cora, Ada, Jane and Mabel, Gertrude and Millicent are purchased for the Skarloey Railway.
 * BBC producers make a documentary about the Skarloey Railway.

=1959=
 * Donald and Douglas arrive on Sodor.
 * The spiteful breakvan is crushed by Douglas.

=1960=
 * 199 is built.
 * The Diesel is built.
 * Old Stuck-Up is built.

=1961=
 * Daisy arrives on Sodor.
 * 7101 is built.
 * The Peel Godred Electric Multiple Units are built and arrive on Sodor.

=1962=
 * Mavis arrives on Sodor.
 * Peter Sam gets a Gisel funnel.
 * Sir Handel gets "steamroller" wheels.
 * Rheneas returns to the Skarloey Railway.
 * Lord Harry arrives on Sodor.
 * Alaric arrives on Sodor.
 * Eric arrives on Sodor.

=1963=
 * Stepney visits Sodor.
 * The Diesel visits Sodor.

=1964=
 * The Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch is re-opened, to be serviced by Duck.
 * Culdee returns to the Culdee Fell Railway.
 * Lord Harry is renamed "Patrick".
 * The Works Diesel is built.

=1965=
 * The one-hundredth anniversary of the Skarloey Railway is celebrated.
 * BoCo arrives on Sodor.
 * Barry is scrapped.

=1966=
 * Bill and Ben arrive on Sodor.
 * Mike is built.

=1967=
 * Bert, Mike and Rex arrive on Sodor to service the Arlesdale Railway.
 * Reverend W. Awdry and Reverend Teddy Boston visit Sodor.

=1968=
 * 7101 arrives on Sodor.
 * 199 visits Sodor.
 * 7101 is renamed "Bear".
 * Oliver, Isabel and Toad are rescued by Douglas and arrive on Sodor.
 * Dulcie, Alice and Mirabel are saved from scrap for service with Oliver and Duck.
 * Scruffey is scrapped.

=1969=
 * Bulgy arrived on Sodor.
 * Duke is discovered by Fergus Duncan, the Reverend W. Awdry and the Reverend Teddy Boston.

=1972=
 * Bert is rebuilt into a narrow gauge outline with a taller chimney, dome and cab.

=1976=
 * Jock is built.
 * Bert is rebuilt with a larger boiler.
 * Pip and Emma are built.

=1980=
 * Thomas is overhauled.
 * The Works Diesel arrives on Sodor.

=1981=
 * Henry is given a Fowler tender.

=1983=
 * Old Stuck-Up visits Sodor.

=1984=
 * Duke is fully restored.
 * Sir Handel visits the Talyllyn Railway.
 * Annie and Clarabel are rebuilt.

=1985=
 * Blister I and Blister II arrive on Sodor.

=1986=
 * The Reverend Teddy Boston dies.
 * Sigrid of Arlesdale and arrives on Sodor.

=1987=
 * Mavis is involved in a collision with a lorry.
 * Bulstrode is turned into a children's playground on a beach.

=1990=
 * After Privatisation, the name "North Western Railway" becomes official.
 * Thomas is invited to a railway show in York.

=1993=
 * Donald and Douglas need help from Wilbert, but as Percy is away, Wilbert is redirected to Thomas' branch.

=1994=
 * Barry is rescued and arrives on Sodor.

=1995=
 * The Golden Jubilee of the Railway Series is celebrated.
 * Pip and Emma are purchased by the North Western Railway.

=1996=
 * Ivo Hugh is built.
 * Willie Rushton dies.

=1997=
 * The Reverend W. Awdry dies.
 * Sir Topham Hatt II dies.

=2006=
 * The manager of Anopha Quarry is visited by the police after Henrietta is booked for allowing workmen to ride on her balconies.

=2007=
 * Victoria is returned to service.