'Arry and Bert

"Pah! I could handle those diesels with bent buffers and a busted boiler!"

- James, Middle Engine, sixth season

   'Arry and Bert   'Arry and Bert are two gruff diesel twins who work for the Sodor Ironworks at the smelters. As of the twelfth season, they appear to be based at the Sodor Slate Quarry.
 * Class: BR Class 08
 * Designer: British Railways
 * Builder: Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, or Horwich Works
 * Configuration: 0-6-0
 * Speed: 15-20 mph

Bio
'Arry and Bert are villainous troublemakers. They have tried to scrap Stepney, and make Percy and James "middle engines", and frighten Fergus away from the smelters, and make the engines believe Neville was planning to bump them. They also teased Henry because of the special coal he had to use by calling him "Mr. Special Steam". According to merchandise bios, they also wish to scrap Oliver.

Persona
'Arry and Bert are unquestionably devious and scheming. Although at first they had a heartened dislike for steam engines, they appear to have grown accustomed to their smoke-puffing companions. 'Arry is the more violent of the two, whereas Bert is the more stupid.

Basis
'Arry and Bert are BR Class 08 shunters. Diesel, The Diesel Shunter, Splatter, Dodge, Paxton and Sidney are also members of this class.

Livery
'Arry and Bert are painted green-grey with yellow hazard stripes on their fronts and rears and yellow cabs. They have "Sodor Ironworks" written on their sides in white.

Appearances
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Television series
Specials: They also appeared in a tenth season learning segment.
 * Season 5 - Stepney Gets Lost ('Arry not named; Bert does not speak)
 * Season 6 - Middle Engine and Twin Trouble (cameo)
 * Season 7 - Bill, Ben and Fergus (cameo), Fergus Breaks the Rules, and James and the Queen of Sodor (cameo)
 * Season 8 - Percy's New Whistle, Thomas to the Rescue (do not speak), Percy's Big Mistake (cameo), Halloween, and Percy and the Magic Carpet (cameo)
 * Season 9 - Thomas and the New Engine
 * Season 11 - Dirty Work (cameo), Hide and Peep (cameo), and Thomas and the Stinky Cheese
 * Season 12 - Don't Go Back (do not speak) and Gordon Takes a Shortcut (cameo)
 * Season 14 - Victor Says Yes and Thomas in Charge (cameo)
 * Season 15 - Edward the Hero (cameo) and Henry's Happy Coal
 * Season 16 - Ol' Wheezy Wobbles and Bust My Buffers!
 * Season 18 - Thomas the Quarry Engine (cameo)
 * Calling All Engines!
 * The Great Discovery (cameo)
 * Day of the Diesels

Magazine Stories
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 * 2004 - Steam Power (Arry only)
 * 2005 - Thomas' Hallowe'en (Bert; does not speak)
 * 2006 - Percy's New Whistle
 * 2008 - Flower Engine (do not speak)
 * 2011 - Victor Says Yes (do not speak), Flower Engine (do not speak) and Creepy Claw
 * 2012 - Henry's Happy Coal, Ol' Wheezy Wobbles (Arry only; cameo), and Fish and Ships (Arry only; does not speak)
 * 2014 - Wobbly Ol' Wheezy (Arry only; cameo)

Voice Actors
'Arry: Bert:
 * Kerry Shale  (UK/US; fourteenth season onwards)
 * Tomohisa Asō (Japan; fifth season only)
 * Yūki Satō (Japan; sixth - eighth seasons)
 * Shinichi Namiki (Japan; Calling All Engines! onwards)
 * Christoffer Staib (Norway; fourteenth season onwards)
 * Jan Kulczycki (Poland; fifteenth season onwards)
 * Kerry Shale (UK/US; fourteenth and fifteenth seasons)
 * William Hope (UK/US; sixteenth season onwards)
 * Keiji Hirai (Japan; sixth - eighth seasons)
 * Shinichi Namiki (Japan; Calling All Engines! onwards)
 * Sigbjørn Solheim (Norway; fourteenth season onwards)
 * Mieczysław Morański (Poland; fourteenth season only)

Trivia

 * The two are not quite identical: Bert has more stubble.
 * 'Arry and Bert were made into CGI for the CGI test episode, Thomas and the Stinky Cheese.
 * In some merchandising, the twins are named "Iron 'Arry" and "Iron Bert".
 * 'Arry and Bert's Hornby models have Splatter and Dodge's faces.
 * The metallic release of 'Arry and Bert in Take-Along has a spelling error on the character card: it reads "'Arrt and Bert".
 * 'Arry and Bert's television series models don't have handrails but some of their merchandise lines do.
 * Some merchandise bios and even the Thomas and Friends website say 'Arry and Bert are called "The Grim Messengers of Doom" because of their grim job of melting down engines.
 * The 1998 official website called 'Arry and Bert "The Yellow Diesels".
 * A model of 'Arry and one of Bert are currently on display in Canada at Nitrogen Studios.
 * Another diesel engine, who looks exactly like 'Arry and Bert, is seen and mentioned in the video game, Right on Time.
 * In the CGI switchover, 'Arry and Bert's faces became slightly bigger.
 * In Season 12, 'Arry and Bert's faces were smaller.
 * In the television series, 'Arry and Bert were never specified as "twins", just "brothers".

Merchandise

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway
 * Take-Along (normal and metallic; discontinued)
 * Take-n-Play
 * TrackMaster
 * Bachmann (coming soon)
 * Hornby (discontinued)
 * Lionel (discontinued, later reintroduced with LionChief remote; coming soon)
 * My First Thomas
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * Trading Cards (discontinued)
 * De Agostini