'Arry and Bert

"Pah! I could handle those Diesels with bent buffers and a busted boiler!"

- James, Middle Engine, sixth season

    'Arry and Bert  'Arry and Bert are two gruff Diesel twins who work for the Sodor Ironworks at the smelters. As of the twelfth season, they appear to be based at the Sodor Slate Quarry.
 * Class: BR Class 08
 * Designer: British Railways
 * Builder: Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, or Horwich Works
 * Configuration: 0-6-0
 * Speed: 15-20 mph

Bio
'Arry and Bert are villainous troublemakers. They have been known to attempt to scrap Stepney, make Percy and James "middle engines", and make the engines believe Neville was planning to bump them. They also tease Henry because of the the special coal he has to use by calling him "Mr. Special Steam". According to merchandise bios, they also wish to scrap Oliver.

Persona
'Arry and Bert are unquestionably devious and scheming. Although at first they had a heartened dislike for steam engines, they appear to have grown accustomed to their smoke-puffing companions.

Basis
'Arry and Bert are BR Class 08 shunters.

Livery
'Arry and Bert are painted green-grey with yellow hazard stripes on their fronts and rears and yellow cabs. They have "Sodor Ironworks" written on their sides in white.

Appearances
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Television series

 * Season 5 - Stepney Gets Lost ('Arry not named; Bert does not speak)
 * Season 6 - Middle Engine and Twin Trouble (cameo)
 * Season 7 - Bill, Ben and Fergus (cameo), Fergus Breaks the Rules, and James and the Queen of Sodor (cameo)
 * Season 8 - Percy's New Whistle, Thomas to the Rescue (do not speak), Percy's Big Mistake (cameo), Halloween, and Percy and the Magic Carpet (cameo)
 * Season 9 - Thomas and the New Engine
 * Season 11 - Dirty Work (cameo), Hide and Peep (cameo), and Thomas and the Stinky Cheese
 * Season 12 - Don't Go Back (do not speak) and Gordon Takes a Shortcut (cameo)
 * Season 14 - Victor Says Yes and Thomas in Charge (cameo)
 * Season 15 - Edward the Hero (cameo) and Henry's Happy Coal
 * Season 16 - Ol' Wheezy Wobbles and Bust My Buffers!

Specials:
 * Calling All Engines!
 * The Great Discovery (cameo)
 * Day of the Diesels

They also appeared in a tenth season learning segment.

Magazine stories
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 * 2008 - Flower Engine (do not speak)
 * 2011 - Victor Says Yes (do not speak) and Creepy Claw
 * 2012 - Henry's Happy Coal, Ol' Wheezy Wobbles (Arry only; cameo), and Fish and Ships (Arry only; does not speak)

Voice Actors

 * Kerry Shale ('Arry; UK/US; fourteenth season onwards; Bert; UK/US; fourteenth and fifteenth seasons)
 * William Hope (Bert; UK/US; sixteenth season onwards)
 * Tomohisa Asō (Arry; Japan; fifth season only)
 * Hiroyuki Satō (Arry; sixth-eighth seasons)
 * Keiji Hirai (Bert; Japan; sixth-eighth seasons)
 * Shinichi Namiki (Both; Japan; Calling All Engines! onwards)
 * Christoffer Staib ('Arry; Norway; fourteenth season onwards)
 * Sigbjørn Solheim (Bert; Norway; fourteenth season onwards)

Trivia

 * The two are not quite identical: Bert has more stubble.
 * 'Arry and Bert were made into CGI for the CGI test episode, Thomas and the Stinky Cheese.
 * In some merchandising, the twins are named "Iron 'Arry" and "Iron Bert".
 * 'Arry and Bert's Hornby models have Splatter and Dodge's faces.
 * The metallic release of 'Arry and Bert in Take-Along has a spelling error on the character card: it reads "'Arrt and Bert".
 * Some merchandise bios and even the Thomas and Friends website say 'Arry and Bert are called "The Grim Messengers of Doom" because of their grim job of melting down engines.
 * The 1998 official website called 'Arry and Bert "The Yellow Diesels".
 * A model of 'Arry and one of Bert are currently on display in Canada at Nitrogen Studios.

Merchandise

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway
 * Take-Along (normal and metallic; discontinued)
 * Take-n-Play
 * TrackMaster
 * Bachmann (coming soon)
 * Hornby (discontinued)
 * Lionel (discontinued)
 * My First Thomas
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * De Agostini