The Mainland

England, located in the United Kingdom, is the Mainland of Sodor.

Location
The Mainland is located across the Walney Channel from Sodor and is accessed via the Vicarstown Bridge. Barrow-in-Furness is the nearest mainland station and town to Sodor.

Named Locations
Certain locations on the Mainland have been mentioned by name in both the Railway Series and the television series. These include:

Railway Series

 * The Eight Famous Engines
 * Duck and the Diesel Engine
 * Enterprising Engines
 * Gordon the High-Speed Engine
 * Henry and the Express

Television Series

 * Season 19 - Reds vs. Blues (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Toby the Tram Engine (mentioned)
 * Thomas's Christmas Party (mentioned)

Television Series

 * Season 1 - Thomas' Christmas Party (mentioned, Ringo Starr narrations only)

Specials

 * The Adventure Begins (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine (mentioned)

Television Series

 * Season 4 - Rusty to the Rescue (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Gordon the High-Speed Engine (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Thomas and the Great Railway Show (mentioned)

Railway Series
Television Series
 * Henry the Green Engine (mentioned), Enterprising Engines (mentioned) and Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines (mentioned)
 * Season 1 - The Flying Kipper (mentioned) and Whistles and Sneezes (mentioned; only in the UK version)

Railway Series

 * Enterprising Engines (mentioned)
 * Gordon the High-Speed Engine (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Eight Famous Engines (Euston, King's Cross, Paddington, and St. Pancras station; mentioned)

Television Series

 * Season 17 - The Thomas Way (Paddington Station)

Railway Series

 * Wilbert the Forest Engine (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Thomas and the Great Railway Show

Railway Series

 * Thomas and the Great Railway Show (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * The Little Old Engine (mentioned), and Great Little Engines (mentioned)

Railway Series

 * Thomas and the Great Railway Show

Televison Series

 * Journey Beyond Sodor

Engines
Numerous engines have come from or worked on the Mainland, including Jinty, Pug, Stepney, Flying Scotsman, The Diesel, Spencer, Connor, Caitlin, Samson, Logan, Frankie and Hurricane. Some other mainland engines were also mentioned in the thirteenth season episode, Play Time.

Rolling Stock
Bradford also hails from the mainland.

Appearances
The Mainland has made several appearances in the Railway Series. In the television series, it's first appearance was in the fourth season episode, Thomas and the Special Letter. In the CGI series, the Mainland has been mentioned several times and briefly seen whenever the Vicarstown bridge appears. Crovan's Gate was once used as a station on the mainland. The Mainland makes its first full appearance in The Great Race and will appear in Journey Beyond Sodor.