Mavis

"Fudge!"

- Mavis, Tramway Engines

   Mavis   Mavis is a female Diesel engine who works for the Ffarquhar Quarry Company at Anopha Quarry. Between the sixth and eleventh seasons of the television series, she has worked at Centre Island Quarry. Since the twelfth season, she has worked at the Sodor Slate Quarry.
 * Number: FQC 1
 * Class: BR Class 04
 * Designer: Drewry Car Co.
 * Builder: Drewry Car Co.
 * Configuration: 0-6-0
 * Speed: 25-27 mph
 * Arrived on Sodor: 1962

Bio
Mavis was particularly fond of putting the trucks at Anopha Quarry in different places, despite Toby's protests. Toby finally lost patience and left Mavis to her own devices. Mavis, urged by Daisy (Diesel in the television series), started to ignore Toby's advice and ended up looking silly when she got stuck outside Ffarquhar.

Mavis was then forbidden to leave the quarry, but when a thaw increased production at Anopha Quarry, Mavis persuaded the manager to let her go up to the first crossing in order to shunt trucks quicker and formulated a plan to pass the level crossing with help from the trucks. However, the plan backfired when the trucks decided to bump Toby instead, and he ended up being suspended by flimsy rails over a rushing stream and Mavis had to help. Mavis confessed, but the Fat Controller and the Manager were pleased by Mavis' courage and honesty and allowed her occasional trips to Ffarquhar.

In 1987, Mavis was involved in a collision with a lorry and Toby had to do her work while she was absent.

Persona
Mavis was arrogant until being brought down to earth after her embarrassing incident at the Ffarquhar crossing. Despite this, Mavis is reliable, honest, hard-working engine, and unusually for a diesel, shows respect for the steam engines. However, unlike most engines, hauling trucks makes her feel important.

From the sixth season onwards, Mavis has matured and acts as a motherly figure to the other engines.

Basis
Mavis is a BR Class 04 0-6-0 fitted with additional cowcatchers and sideplates so that she can run near public roads.

Livery
Mavis is painted black with hazard stripes on her front and rear. She has her name and "The Ffarquhar Quarry Co. Ltd." written on her sideplates in white.

Appearances
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 * Tramway Engines
 * James and the Diesel Engines (mentioned)
 * Toby, Trucks and Trouble
 * Thomas Comes Home (non-speaking role)
 * Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines (non-speaking role)

Television series

 * Season 3 - Mavis, Toby's Tightrope, and Escape (cameo)
 * Season 4 - Rusty to the Rescue (cameo) and Thomas and the Special Letter (does not speak)
 * Season 5 - Stepney Gets Lost and Oliver's Find (cameo)
 * Season 6 - Salty's Secret, A Bad Day for Harold the Helicopter (cameo), and Buffer Bother
 * Season 7 - Bill, Ben and Fergus and James and the Queen of Sodor (cameo)
 * Season 8 - Thomas to the Rescue
 * Season 9 - Emily Knows Best
 * Season 10 - Toby's Afternoon Off
 * Season 11 - Dream On and Don't be Silly, Billy
 * Season 12 - Don't Go Back
 * Season 13 - The Early Bird, Percy's Parcel, A Blooming Mess, Thomas and the Runaway Kite (cameo), and The Biggest Present of All (does not speak)
 * Season 14 - Charlie and Eddie (cameo), Thomas in Charge, and Thomas and Scruff (cameo)
 * Season 15 - Toby and Bash (cameo), James to the Rescue (does not speak), Henry's Happy Coal (cameo), Surprise, Surprise (cameo), Spencer the Grand, Kevin the Steamie (cameo), Wonky Whistle (cameo), Tree Trouble (does not speak), and Fiery Flynn (does not speak)
 * Season 16 - Race to the Rescue (cameo), Thomas Toots the Crows, Bust My Buffers!, Thomas and the Sounds of Sodor, Sodor Surprise Day (cameo), and Whiff's Wish (does not speak)
 * Season 17 - Henry's Hero (cameo) and Away From the Sea
 * Season 18 - Thomas the Quarry Engine and Not So Slow Coaches

Specials:
 * Thomas and the U.K. Trip (does not speak)
 * Calling All Engines!
 * The Great Discovery (does not speak)
 * Hero of the Rails
 * Misty Island Rescue (cameo)
 * Day of the Diesels
 * Blue Mountain Mystery

Magazine stories

 * 1996 - Proud Mavis!, and The Little Line
 * 2001 - Soak Joke, Diesel Day! (does not speak), and The Eyesight Test (mentioned)
 * 2004 - Fergus' Funnel (does not speak), Sky Shapes, Toby's Troubles! (does not speak), Buffer Bother!, Engine Trouble (cameo), and Rock Shock!
 * 2005 - Working Christmas (cameo) and Pop Goes the Diesel (cameo)
 * 2006 - Shower Power and Emily Knows Best
 * 2007 - BoCo the Brave (does not speak)
 * 2010 - Percy's Parcel, The Best Present of All (cameo), Early Bird (does not speak), Magpie Mavis, Piggy-in-the-middle!, Proud Puffers (cameo), A Blooming Mess and Disgusted Diesels (does not speak)
 * 2012 - Bedtime Tale, Early Bird (does not speak), Thomas and the Sound of Sodor (does not speak), and Thomas Toots the Crows (does not speak), The Best Present of All (cameo), Jack's Tracks! (mentioned), and Flaming Flynn (mentioned)
 * 2013 - Early Bird! (does not speak) and The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 662) (mentioned)
 * 2014 - Confusion and Delay

Mavis also appeared in the magazine stories, Bridge Bother, Diesel Display, Everyone's Friend, Percy's Stories, Pirate Passengers, Rude James, Seal Passenger, Special Statue, Spotting Shapes, Stone Shapes, Stone Signal, The Poorly Engine!, and The Strongest.}}

Trivia

 * Mavis was named after the Reverend W. Awdry's neighbour in Rodborough, Stroud
 * Mavis was the last character Wilbert Awdry created before he retired from writing the Railway Series.
 * Mavis' name in the French narration of the Classic Series was Murielle.
 * Mavis had three different horn sounds during the series run. Her current horn is the same as Diesel's from the fourteenth and fifteenth seasons.
 * In the eighteenth season, Mavis gains a permanent lamp of the same design as Charlie's.

Voice Actors

 * Teresa Gallagher (UK; Hero of the Rails onwards - US; seventeenth season onwards)
 * Jules de Jongh (US; Hero of the Rails - Blue Mountain Mystery)
 * Marit Berg (Norway; Hero of the Rails - seventeenth season)
 * Marianne Westby (Norway; Day of the Diesels onwards, excluding the sixteenth and seventeenth season)
 * Nao Nagasawa (Japan; third season only)
 * Ryō Horikawa (Japan; fifth season only)
 * Yuka Shioyama (Japan; sixth - eighth seasons)
 * Kumiko Itō (Japan; Calling All Engines! - thirteenth season)
 * Sakura Yoshioka (Japan; fourteenth season onwards)
 * Joey Cordevin (Germany)
 * Zuzanna Galia (Poland)

Theme Instrumental
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Merchandise

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway
 * Take-Along (discontinued)
 * Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
 * TrackMaster
 * My First Thomas
 * Bachmann
 * Wind-up Trains
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * Bandai (several versions; discontinued)
 * Take-n-Play
 * Nakayoshi (discontinued)
 * Wind-up (Normal and Clear)
 * Trading Cards (discontinued)
 * Mega Bloks

Quotes
Toby's an old fusspot!

-Mavis, Tramway Engines, Mavis.