Timeline

This is a timeline chronicling the events of the Railway Series, TV Series and the railways:

=1806=
 * Plateway from Ward Fell to Balladswail built.

=1847=
 * Iron Duke is built.

=1851=
 * Iron Duke is displayed at the Great Exhibition.

=1853=
 * The Sodor and Mainland Railway is built.

=1864=
 * Skarloey is built.

=1865=
 * Skarloey arrives on Sodor.
 * Rheneas is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Skarloey has added trailing wheels to improve stability, and has a cab installed.

=1870=
 * The Wellsworth-Suddery Railway is opened.
 * Albert is built.

=1875=
 * Stepney is built.

=1877=
 * Captain Baxter is built.

=1879=
 * Duke is built.

=1880=
 * The Mid Sodor Railway is opened.
 * Victoria is built.
 * Boxhill is built.
 * Cromford is built.

=1883=
 * The Tidouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway is opened.

=1888=
 * Sir Topham Hatt I is born.
 * Albert is rebuilt into a J1 2-4-2 class.

=1896=
 * Edward is built.
 * Godred is built.
 * Ernest is built.
 * Wilfred is built.
 * Culdee is built.
 * Shane Dooiney is built and arrives on Sodor.

=1897=
 * Construction on the Culdee Fell Railway begins.
 * Wilfred arrives on Sodor.

=1898=
 * Percy is built.
 * Henry is built.

=1899=
 * Donald and Douglas are built.

=1900=
 * The Culdee Fell Railway is opened.
 * Godred dies in a fall.

=1903=
 * Toby is built.
 * Falcon is built.
 * City of Truro is built.

=1905=
 * Boxhill is rebuilt into a 2-4-0T.

=1910=
 * Bluebell and Primrose are built.

=1913=
 * Thomas is built.
 * Boxhill is rebuilt into a 0-6-0T.

=1914=
 * The North Western Railway is formed from the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light, the Wellsworth-Suddery and the Crosby-Brendam railways.

=1915=
 * Thomas arrives on Sodor.
 * James is built.
 * The Ballahoo tunnel is built.
 * The workshops at Crovan's Gate are established.

=1916=
 * Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch built.

=1917=
 * Stanley is built.

=1918=
 * Duncan is built.

=1919=
 * Addams is built.

=1920=
 * Edward arrives on Sodor.

=1922=
 * Gordon is built and arrives on Sodor.
 * Henry is pre-rebuilt into a LNER Class A3 with a six-wheeled tender and arrives on Sodor.
 * A second bore is cut for the Ballahoo tunnel after Henry stops in the original.
 * Lord Harry is built.

=1923=
 * Victoria arrives on Sodor and is made into a summerhouse at an Elsbridge orchard.
 * Alaric is built.
 * Eric is built.
 * Stuart is built.

=1924=
 * Reverend Teddy Boston is born.

=1929=
 * Duck is built.

=1932=
 * Oliver is built.

=1940=
 * Rusty is built.

=1946=
 * James arrives on Sodor.
 * Thomas is given his branch line.
 * Stanley dies in a breakdown.

=1947=
 * The Mid Sodor Railway and the Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch are closed.
 * Duke is sheeted.
 * Falcon and Stuart are purchased by the aluminium works at Peel Godred for an expansion project.

=1948=
 * The North Western Railway becomes officially known as the "North Western Region of British Railways".

=1949=
 * Gordon, James and Henry go on strike.
 * Percy arrives on Sodor.

=1950=
 * Henry is overhauled.
 * Rheneas is overhauled.
 * Falcon and Stuart are sheeted.
 * Henry has a collision with a goods train and is sent to Crewe to be rebuilt into a LMS Stanier Class 5.
 * Fred is built.

=1951=
 * Toby arrives on Sodor.
 * Thomas has a brush with the law after he is booked for travelling from the Anopha Quarry line without cowcatchers or side plates.
 * Stuart and Falcon are purchased by the Skarloey Railway and renamed Peter Sam and Sir Handel respectively.

=1952=
 * Mavis is built.

=1953=
 * Bill and Ben are built.
 * Diesel is built.

=1955=
 * Duck arrives on Sodor.

=1956=
 * Sir Topham Hatt I dies.
 * Daisy is built.

=1957=
 * Diesel comes to and arrives on Sodor.

=1958=
 * Boco is built.
 * Rusty arrives on Sodor.
 * Duncan arrives on Sodor.

=1959=
 * Donald and Douglas arrive on Sodor.

=1960=
 * 199 is built.
 * The Diesel is built.
 * Old Stuck-Up is built.
 * Stepney is rescued by Rusty and arrives on Bluebell Railway.
 * Captain Baxter arrives at Bluebell Railway.

=1961=
 * Thomas has a collision with the Ffarquhar stationmaster's house and is sent to be repaired.
 * Daisy arrives on Sodor.
 * 7101 is built.

=1962=
 * Mavis arrives on Sodor.
 * Rheneas returns to Skarloey Railway.

=1964=
 * Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch re-opened.
 * Culdee returns to Culdee Fell Railway.
 * Lord Harry arrives on Sodor.
 * Alaric arrives on Sodor.
 * Eric arrives on Sodor.
 * Lord Harry is renamed "Patrick".

=1966=
 * Bill and Ben arrive on Sodor.

=1967=
 * 199 comes to Sodor.
 * 7101 arrives on Sodor.
 * 7101 is renamed "Bear".

=1968=
 * Oliver, Isabel and Toad are rescued by Douglas and arrive on Sodor.
 * Merlin, Mike and Rex arrive on Sodor.
 * Merlin is renamed "Bert".
 * Bert is rebuilt with a new boiler, long frames, a cab, a six-wheel tender, a cab and two new wheels, making his wheel arrangement 0-8-2.

=1969=
 * Duke is discovered by Mr. Fergus Duncan, the Reverend W. Awdry and the Reverend Teddy Boston.

=1984=
 * Duke is fully restored.
 * Sir Handel visits the Talyllyn Railway.

=1987=
 * Mavis is involved in a collision with a lorry and Toby has to do her work while she is absent.

=1990=
 * After Privitisation, the name "North Western Railway" becomes official.
 * Thomas is invited to a railway show in York.

=1995=
 * The Golden Jubilee of the Railway Series is celebrated.
 * Pip and Emma are purchased by the North Western Railway.

=1996=
 * Ivo Hugh is built.

=1999=
 * Cromford is loaned to Barrow Hill Engine Sheds.

=2006=
 * Victoria is returned to service.

=2008=
 * Cromford returns to Bluebell Railway.