North Western Railway

The North Western Railway was first created in 1914 after a government-funded joining of Sodor's standard gauge railways for coastal defence. The railways concerned were the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge and the Wellsworth and Suddery. 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 (8 officially, 5741 technically)
 * Donald and Douglas (9 and 10 respectively)
 * Oliver (11 offically, 1436 technically)
 * Bill and Ben (SCC 1 and SCC 2 respectively)
 * Eagle
 * Barry
 * Jinty
 * Daisy (D1)
 * Boco (D2)
 * Bear (D3)
 * Mavis (FQC 1)
 * Wendell
 * Pip and Emma

Additional locomotives in service in the television series

 * Harvey (27)
 * Emily
 * Fergus
 * Arthur
 * Murdoch
 * Molly
 * Neville
 * Rosie
 * Whiff
 * Billy
 * Stanley
 * Flora
 * Hank
 * Diesel
 * Derek
 * Arry and Bert
 * Salty
 * Dennis