North Western Railway



"Please tell everyone that whatever happens elsewhere, Steam will still be at work here. We shall be glad to welcome all who want to see, and travel behind, real engines."

- The Fat Controller, "Enterprising Engines"

The North Western Railway was first created in 1914 after a government-funded joining of Sodor's standard gauge railways. The railways involved were the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light and the Wellsworth-Suddery Railways. In 1948, it became the "North-Western Region of British Railways", but this term was never used as the railway kept its operating independence. With Privatisation in the early 1990s, it officially became the North Western Railway.

The railway's motto is "Nil unquam simile", which, translated from Latin, means "There's nothing quite like it!"

Locomotives in service

 * Thomas (1)
 * Edward (2)
 * Henry (3)
 * Gordon (4)
 * James (5)
 * Percy (6)
 * Toby (7)
 * Duck/Montague (8 officially, 5741 technically)
 * Donald and Douglas (9 and 10 officially)
 * Oliver (11 offically, 1436 technically)
 * Bill and Ben (SCC 1 and SCC 2 respectively)
 * Eagle
 * Daisy (D1)
 * BoCo (D2)
 * Bear (D3)
 * The Works Diesel
 * Pip and Emma

Additional locomotives in service in the television series

 * Harvey (27)
 * Emily
 * Fergus
 * Arthur (LMS)
 * Murdoch
 * Molly
 * Neville (33010)
 * Rosie
 * Whiff (66)
 * Billy
 * Stanley
 * Hank
 * Flora
 * Diesel
 * Mavis
 * Derek
 * 'Arry and Bert
 * Salty (2991)
 * Dennis (11001)
 * Hiro