Buses

"Goodbye Thomas, you must be tired, sorry I can't stop, we buses have to work you know."

- Bertie to Thomas, Thomas and Bertie, first season

 Model Series= |-|Railway Series=   Sodor Roadway Buses    Besides Bertie, the Sodor Roadway Bus Services also owns a few other red buses that were seen around the Island of Sodor, used to carry and transport passengers. These buses are almost identical to Bertie, except they are faceless.
 * Class: AEC Regal T Class London Country Area bus
 * Builder: Associated Equipment Company
 * Built: sometime between 1929 and 1948
 * Drivetrain: 4WD

In the  Railway Series, various other buses have appeared in multiple colours such as green and blue.

There also appears to be Double-Decker Buses that work around the Island as well. In Henry the Green Engine, a blue double-decker bus with a sign advertising the book Troublesome Engines can be seen in the background. Bulgy is the only known Double-Decker Bus to have worked on the Island, although in the magazines, two double-decker buses were introduced; The Special Bus Service and The Open-Topped Double-Decker Bus.

In the magazines, a green bus resembling a faceless Bertie, used for hospital services, appears in the story Important Passengers. In the annual story, Bertie the Snow Bus a faceless blue bus resembling Algy appears with the headcode "401".

Basis
The buses are based on the AEC Regal T Class London Country Area buses, very much like Bertie.

The Double-Decker Buses are based of AEC Bridgemaster buses, very much like Bulgy.

Livery
The buses are painted in the famous red bus livery used by London Transport, with silver hubcaps, like Bertie. Other buses featured in the Railway Series, annual stories and magazine stories are painted in various colours such as blue, green and yellow.

Appearances
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Railway Series

 * Tank Engine Thomas Again - Thomas, Terence and the Snow (mentioned)
 * Henry the Green Engine - Percy and the Trousers
 * Toby the Tram Engine - Toby and the Stout Gentleman

Television Series

 * Season 1 - Thomas and Bertie
 * Season 2 - Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree
 * Season 3 - Time for Trouble, Gordon and the Famous Visitor, The Trouble with Mud, No Joke for James, Trust Thomas, Buzz, Buzz, All at Sea, Escape and Bulgy
 * Season 4 - A Bad Day for Sir Handel, Trucks!, Rusty to the Rescue and Bowled Out
 * Season 7 - Toby's Windmill (stock footage)

Magazine Stories
A bus also appeared in the magazine story, Holidays. A bus also appeared in the story library books Edward }}
 * 1996 - Important Passengers!
 * 2002 - Sodor Goes Pop! and Diesels and Steam Engines
 * 2004 - Thank You, Thomas! and Duck's Little Joke!
 * 2013 - Bulgy's Back