Old Slow Coach

"I'm what it?"

- Old Slow Coach, Happy Ever After, fifth season

    Old Slow Coach Old Slow Coach is a GWR Victorian luxury coach.

Bio
Old Slow Coach was originally part of The Cornishman, taking passengers to Falmouth to catch the Translantic liners. Impressed by her very grand and luxurious interior, she was brought to the Island of Sodor by Sir Topham Hatt, but was eventually replaced by modern rolling stock. Sent to the scrap yards, Old Slow Coach was luckily found and saved by Thomas and Percy, so she is once again very useful indeed.

Old Slow Coach was long due for the scrapheap when Thomas and Percy met her, and the two tank engines vowed to find a way to save her. Their chance came sooner than expected when the workmen's hut was destroyed by fire. Thomas and Percy suggested that Old Slow Coach house the workmen while a new hut was being made.

After the hut was rebuilt, Old Slow Coach was restored into a coach, and later became the "old" item for Mrs. Kyndley's daughter's good luck package.

Basis
Old Slow Coach is based upon a Falmouth Coupe TRI Composite coach, built in 1893 for the Great Western Railway.

Livery
Old Slow Coach is painted in the Great Western's chocolate and cream livery.

Television series

 * Season 5 - Thomas, Percy and Old Slowcoach and Happy Ever After

Trivia

 * Old Slow Coach is the only coach with moving eyes and a moulded face like the engines.

Merchandise

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway (discontinued)
 * Bandai Tecs
 * Hornby
 * TOMY (Asia only)