Ryan

"Well, Ryan, you are making yourself really useful!"

- Sir Topham Hatt, Ryan and Daisy, twentieth season

Ryan is a purple tank engine. He takes goods on the Harwick Branch Line, while Daisy takes passengers.

Bio
Ryan was brought to help run Thomas' Branch Line while Thomas was sent to help out at the construction yard during the building of the Harwick Branch Line. After Thomas fell into a deep cavern, Ryan was once again brought to do his job while he was being repaired. After taking bad coal, he accidentally set fire to some dynamite, which Thomas managed to dispose of quickly - however, the incident also landed Thomas in trouble with Sir Topham Hatt. Ryan later helped stop Captain Calles' Pirate Ship, which was being used by Sailor John to escape with the treasure. When Thomas was fished out of the water, Sir Topham Hatt told Thomas that Ryan told him everything that had happened, and that he was proud of him.

Soon afterward, Ryan started work on the Harwick Branch Line as the goods engine, with Daisy as the passenger engine.

In the twentieth season, Ryan had to help Toby take stone from Anopha Quarry to Harwick. But, he ended up doing Daisy's extra jobs too, and became so over-worked that he took his passengers to the quarry instead of Knapford Station. Later, Ryan found Judy and Jerome at Knapford. They had grown tired of sitting there for ages, so Ryan took them to Arlesburgh Harbour. He then went looking for Judy and Jerome when Daisy derailed near a signal box. Ryan looked everywhere for the breakdown cranes and finally found them at the Blue Mountain Quarry.

Persona
Ryan is an affable engine, who goes out of his way to be kind and is concerned when he sees others in trouble. Ryan would like to be a hero, but he is not actually as brave as he wishes he was and has a tendency to panic a little in the face of danger. It does not put him off trying though. Ryan is direct and sincere, but he has a good sense of humour too and is not above making a joke at his own expense. Ryan also appears to be somewhat of a pushover, as evidenced by how easily Daisy was able to make him do her work.

Basis
Ryan is based on the Great Northern Railway Class N2. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley as a improvement of Henry Ivatt's Class N1, these locomotives were fitted with condensing apparatus because they were used for inter-city work in the Metropolitan areas of London, while later examples were usually seen around Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. One member of this class, No. 1744 has been preserved and operates on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. In addition to being the sole survivor of its class, 1744 is also the sole surviving example of a Gresley designed tank engine

Livery
Ryan is painted purple with white and gold lining. He has the letters "GNR" painted on his tanks in gold. The number "1014" is painted on his bunker sides in the same colour. He also has brass nameplates on the sides of his boiler.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Season 20 - Ryan and Daisy, The Way She Does It, The Missing Breakdown Train and Mucking About (cameo)
 * Season 21 - Springtime for Diesel, A Most Singular Engine and Daisy's Perfect Christmas

Specials:
 * Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
 * Journey Beyond Sodor (cameo)

Music Videos:
 * We Make A Team Together

Learning Segments

 * Guess Who? Puzzles

Videos
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 * 2016 - DC Super Friends™ San Diego Comic Con

Books

 * 2015 - Pirate Treasure, Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: Sticker Activity Book, and Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie Storybook
 * 2016 - 6-Movie Coloring Collection (cameo), The Great Race (cameo), The Great Race: The Movie Storybook (cameo) and The Great Railway Show (cameo)
 * 2017 - Thomas' Color Book

Video Games

 * 2015 - Express Delivery
 * 2016 - Magical Tracks

Voice Actors

 * Eddie Redmayne (UK/US; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Steven Kynman (UK/US; twentieth season onwards)
 * Daigo Naitō (Japan; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Katsuhiro Tokuishi (Japan; twentieth season onwards)
 * Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (Latin America; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Gerardo Mendoza (Latin America; twentieth season onwards)
 * Kaihiamal Martínez (Latin America; DC Super Friends™ San Diego Comic Con only)
 * Oliver Böttcher (Germany; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Timo Kinzel (Germany; twentieth season onwards)
 * Przemysław Stippa (Poland; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Bartosz Martyna (Poland; twentieth season onwards)
 * Huub Dikstaal (The Netherlands)
 * Gilan Shachaf (Israel; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure only)
 * Zvika Fohrman (Israel; twentieth season onwards)

Trivia

 * Ryan's Trackmaster prototype shows him with the correct purple wheels, but when the final product came out, his wheels are black. However, this is corrected with the Trackmaster pack; 'Ryan and Jerome.'
 * In the original script of Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, Ryan was portrayed as being "overconfident and dismissive", as compared to his final portrayal. All merchandise descriptions of him mention this personality.
 * His whistle sound is the same one used for Smudger

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway
 * Take-n-Play
 * TrackMaster (normal and muddy two-pack version with Jerome)
 * Motorized Railway
 * Capsule Plarail
 * Motor Road and Rail (two-pack with Skiff)
 * Adventures
 * Wood

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