Sodor and Mainland Railway Numbers 1 and 3

    Sodor and Mainland Railway Numbers 1 and 3   According to The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, there were three 0-4-0T engines - one of which was Neil - with open cabs and square tanks that operated on the Sodor and Mainland Railway from 1856 until the line went bankrupt. They were used for different jobs on Sodor.
 * Numbers: 1 and 3
 * Builder: Neilson
 * Configuration: 0-4-0

Basis
The Sodor and Mainland Railway engines are thought to be based on Neilson 0-4-0 box tanks, a simple and robust class of engine built in Glasgow, Scotland and sold all over the world.