The Mail Train

"I'm Percy. I pull the mail trucks. They're red and they're wooden, and they're full of very exciting parcels!"

- Percy, Thomas and Scruff, fourteenth season

   Mail Coaches Mail Coaches, or Mail Trucks, known as Mail Cars in the US, are used to run a special night train pulled by Thomas or Percy, but in recent seasons, the train is pulled in broad daylight. Since the seventeenth season, however, the train seems to be pulled primarily at night again. Percy is almost always in charge, although other engines take the train on occasion.

Occasionally, the mail is carried in open-wagons or flat trucks.

Trivia

 * From Hero of the Rails onwards, "SODOR MAIL" on the sides is replaced by an envelope with wings.
 * Five mail coach models are currently on display; four at Drayton Manor and one in Canada at Nitrogen Studios.

Merchandise

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway (discontinued)
 * Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
 * TrackMaster (normal and see-inside)
 * Take-Along (discontinued)
 * Take-n-Play (Pull 'n 'zoom Percy)
 * Bachmann
 * Hornby
 * Tomix
 * Wind-Up (reintroduced; Japan only)
 * Bandai Tecs (with brakevan; discontinued)
 * Nakayoshi (discontinued)