Rosie

"Rosie is a lively little tank engine. She's very quick. She also likes to be very busy. Any job is a good job for Rosie."

- The Narrator, Rosie's Funfair Special, twelfth season

Rosie is a tank engine who looks up to Thomas. She works as both a shunting engine and a mixed traffic engine.

Bio
Rosie began idolising Thomas to the point of hero-worship and imitation. Though this is said to be the most sincere form of flattery, it only served to irritate Thomas whilst he was trying to deliver a special birthday post train to Alice at High Farm. He even started to try and avoid her, but after Thomas had an accident in the course of delivering this train, Rosie helped him and he came to respect her.

Rosie was later called to help Thomas shunt trucks until Hector frightened her away.

Rosie was charged with acting as a back-engine to Emily with the funfair special. Wanting to take the train herself and thinking she was doing Emily a favour, Rosie succeeded only in creating confusion and delay on a grand scale, but eventually set things right.

Rosie rescued Thomas when his fire went out after playing a game of "Splish, Splash, Splosh". She later let Diesel take her train of flowers which was headed for market.

One day Rosie had a cracked wheel, so Thomas and Butch brought her a new one.

On Sodor Surprise Day, Thomas bumped some coal trucks to surprise Gordon, but ended up surprising her instead. She is later seen being cleaned up with Whiff at the washdown and joins Gordon and Thomas at Callan Castle to see Harold decked out in bright lights to make Gordon laugh.

In Journey Beyond Sodor, she was shunting in the Vicarstown Goods Yard when James came, looking for Henry's trucks to take to the Mainland. Rosie told him that she knew they were important and that was why Thomas came to take them early.

In the twenty-first season, after she is repainted into her red livery, James challenges her to a race.

Persona
Rosie is a friendly, respectful and helpful tank engine who likes Thomas very much. She and Thomas like to have fun and also like to help each other when they are doing work. Rosie could be described as a feisty, energetic and free-spirited tomboy who is not afraid to do hard work. She loves to race just as much as she loves to be Really Useful.

Basis
Rosie is based on an SR USA Class 0-6-0T. Originally classified as the USATC S100 Class and designed for shunting duties in Europe during the Second World War, after the war ended, fifteen of these engines were sold to the Southern Railway where they were used as dockyard shunters at Southampton. There, they worked alongside the LB&SCR E2s (Thomas' class). Both classes were replaced by BR Class 07 diesels (Salty's class) in 1962, though members of the class remained in service on departmental duties until 1966.

Four members of this class are preserved, one at the Bluebell Railway. Two S100s have also been bought from the former Yugoslavia and modified to USA condition.

Livery
From her debut up until The Great Race, Rosie was painted lavender with light grey tank panels, red lining and gold boiler bands. Her wheels were red with light grey wheel rims.

Starting from the twenty-first season onwards, Rosie is painted cherry red with dark raspberry tank panels, gold boiler bands and light grey lining. She has gold lining above her wheels and around her latter. Rosie has the letters "NWR" written on her tank panels in light grey and the number "37" in light grey under her cab windows.

Appearances
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Television Series

 * Season 10 - Thomas and the Birthday Mail
 * Season 11 - Hector the Horrid!, Thomas Sets Sail and Thomas and the Runaway Car
 * Season 12 - Rosie's Funfair Special
 * Season 13 - Steamy Sodor (cameo), Splish Splash Splosh and Hiro Helps Out (cameo)
 * Season 14 - James in the Dark (cameo), Diesel's Special Delivery, Merry Winter Wish (cameo), Thomas and the Snowman Party (cameo), Thomas' Crazy Day (cameo), Jumping Jobi Wood! (cameo) and Merry Misty Island (cameo)
 * Season 15 - Gordon and Ferdinand (cameo), Toby and Bash (cameo), Percy's New Friends (cameo), Henry's Happy Coal (cameo), Surprise, Surprise (cameo), Stuck on You and Kevin the Steamie (cameo)
 * Season 16 - Race to the Rescue (cameo), Ho Ho Snowman (cameo), Flash Bang Wallop! (cameo), Thomas Toots the Crows (cameo), Bust My Buffers! (cameo), Percy and the Calliope (cameo), Salty's Surprise (does not speak), Sodor Surprise Day, Muddy Matters (cameo), Whiff's Wish (cameo) and Happy Birthday Sir! (cameo)
 * Season 17 - Steamie Stafford (cameo), Henry's Hero (cameo), The Thomas Way (cameo), Percy's Lucky Day (cameo), Bill or Ben? (cameo), Away From the Sea (cameo) and No More Mr. Nice Engine (cameo)
 * Season 18 - Signals Crossed (cameo), Toad's Adventure (cameo), Long Lost Friend (cameo) and Samson at Your Service (cameo)
 * Season 19 - Very Important Sheep (cameo), The Beast of Sodor (cameo) and Philip to the Rescue (cameo)
 * Season 21 - The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor

Specials:
 * The Great Discovery (cameo)
 * Hero of the Rails (cameo)
 * Misty Island Rescue (cameo)
 * Day of the Diesels (cameo)
 * Blue Mountain Mystery (cameo)
 * King of the Railway (cameo)
 * Tale of the Brave (cameo)
 * Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (cameo)
 * The Great Race (cameo)
 * Journey Beyond Sodor

Learning Segments:
 * Season 10 - Which Load for Rosie?

Magazine Stories

 * 2007 - Airship
 * 2008 - Flower Engine and Perfect Promise
 * 2011 - Rumble Rescue, Snug in a Rug, Market Day, Rosie's Rocks, Rosie's Really Useful Scrap!, Harold and the Kites, Flower Engine and Diesel's Special Delivery (does not speak)
 * 2012 - Stuck On You, The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 643), Snug in a Rug and Messy Rescue!
 * 2013 - Sodor Surprise Day (speaks in speech bubble only) and Boiler Bother (speaks in speech bubble only)
 * 2015 - It's Okay to be Scared

Rosie also appeared in the magazine stories, Frying or Flying, Mighty Magnet!, Really Useful Rosie, Red for Rosie, Rushing Around and Stone Signal. }}

Voice Actors

 * Teresa Gallagher (UK; thirteenth - sixteenth season)
 * Jules de Jongh (US; thirteenth season - sixteenth season)
 * Nicola Stapleton (UK/US; Journey Beyond Sodor onwards)
 * Hisayo Mochizuki (Japan)
 * Simona Pahl (Germany; thirteenth - sixteenth season)
 * Micaela Incitti (Italy)
 * Justyna Bojczuk (Poland)
 * Talya Barkay (Israel)
 * Susa Saukko (Finland; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Lena Meieran (Norway; thirteenth - sixteenth season)
 * Mildred Barrera (Latin America; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Blanche Ravalec (France and French-speaking Canada)
 * María Rubio (Spain; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Elain Llwyd (Wales)

Trivia

 * Rosie is the first engine of several things:
 * The first engine of an American class introduced in the television series and the second such engine (after Stanley) introduced in the franchise overall.
 * The first engine in the television series to have her debut livery changed permanently and the third character in the television series overall, the first being S.C. Ruffey and the second being Bulgy.
 * The first engine in the television series to receive a number who did not already have one.
 * The first engine in the television series to be lettered for the North Western Railway. She is the second in the franchise overall after Emma.
 * Rosie's model is currently on display at Drayton Manor. Sometime in 2017, a part of her siderod had broken off.
 * In Red for Rosie, one illustration incorrectly depicts her with a tender.
 * When she had her lip gloss and blush, Rosie rarely had it in various merchandise lines.
 * Rosie's whistle is a higher pitched version of Thomas'.
 * A magazine fact file states that she works on Thomas' Branch Line, although she is yet to be seen doing so in the television series.
 * The My First Thomas & Friends' Railway Pals variant of Rosie is the first piece of merchandise to introduce her in her new red livery.
 * Since her debut, Rosie has appeared in every season and special except The Adventure Begins and the twentieth season with the latter possibly being because she was getting rendered into her new livery ready for the twenty-first season/Journey Beyond Sodor.
 * Rosie has both her whistle and connecting rods in different positions compared to her prototype:
 * Rosie's whistle is positioned behind her rear dome whilst her prototype has its whistle positioned on the right side of the middle dome.
 * Rosie's connecting rods are attached to her middle driving wheels whereas her prototype has its connecting rods attached to the rear driving wheels.
 * Her funnel is also taller than her basis.
 * Rosie has had a few modifications throughout the television series, which include:
 * Season 12:
 * Her tail-lamp was removed.
 * Season 13:
 * Her face became slightly smaller.
 * Her funnel and steam pipes became thinner.
 * Her lamp-irons were removed.
 * A detail on her coal bunker had been pushed in.
 * Mid-Season 17 (starting with Percy's Lucky Day onwards):
 * She gained a permanent headlamp of the same design as Ferdinand's, mounted in front of her funnel.
 * Tale of the Brave:
 * She regained her tail-lamp.
 * Season 21:
 * She received a new cherry red livery with "NWR" painted on her side tanks and the number 37 painted under her cab windows.
 * She lost her lip gloss and blush.
 * Rosie gained rivets across her cab, side tanks, smoke box, cylinders and the sides of her buffer beam.

Quotes

 * "Rosie was a cheerful, chirpy little tank engine. She was always pleased to meet Thomas. She liked him so much that she wanted to be just like him". (The narrator introducing Rosie, Thomas and the Birthday Mail, tenth season)
 * "Wow, do we have to shunt and fill that big truck Thomas?" (Rosie asking Thomas do they have to shunt and fill Hector, eleventh season)
 * "Uh which cars do you mean James?" (Rosie asking James which cars he was talking about, Journey Beyond Sodor)

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway (normal, battery powered; discontinued, holiday versions; discontinued, early engineers; discontinued and roll and whistle)
 * Take Along (discontinued normal, metallic and "lights and sounds")
 * Take-n-Play (normal, discontinued talking and glow racers)
 * Collectible Railway
 * Motor Road and Rail (discontinued outside Asia)
 * TrackMaster (many versions all discontinued)
 * Bachmann
 * Mega Bloks (discontinued)
 * Minis
 * Classic Minis
 * DC Super Friends Minis (as Supergirl, Starfire, Hawkgirl and Star Sapphire)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants Minis (as Mrs. Puff)
 * Tootsie Minis (Charms)
 * Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Minis (as the Pink Ranger)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as April O'Neil)
 * My First Thomas (discontinued)
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * Wind-up (normal, metallic and transparent; Japan only)
 * Boss (discontinued)
 * Discover Junction
 * Bath Toys
 * Micro Rubber Engines
 * Adventures (normal and light-up racers)
 * My First Thomas & Friends
 * Wood