Timothy

"You and your oil burning ways!"

- Bill, No Steam Without Coal, eighteenth season

    Timothy    Timothy is a little oil burning tank engine, who works at the Sodor China Clay Company with Bill, Ben, and Marion.
 * Builder: Bell Locomotive Works, Inc.
 * Configuration: 0-4-0ST
 * Built: Sometime between 1908 and 1923

Bio
Timothy loves to work at the China Clay Pits with Bill and Ben, but his naïvete can sometimes lead to the twins playing tricks on him. Despite this, Timothy just dismisses them as silly and gets on with his job.

Bill and Ben once teased Timothy for being an oil-burning engine instead of a regular coal-burning engine. Timothy started to get upset by this, but ended up having the last laugh when the clay pits ran out of coal. Timothy collected some coal from Brendam Docks and the twins finally apologised for their teasing. Sometime later, the twins sent him on a wild goose chase to find a rainbow-coloured truck, causing Timothy to run around the island until he came across a waste truck covered in paint.

Persona
Timothy is friendly, helpful, and loves being really useful, but can also be naïve and gullible.

Basis
Timothy is based on an open cab oil burning steam locomotive built by Bell Locomotive Works, Inc. of New York City. These engines, which were built in a variety of gauges, were used throughout the United States, Cuba, Central America, and South America in construction and industrial work.

Livery
Timothy is painted dark blue with red lining. He has "SCC" written on the sides of his water tank in yellow and a gold nameplate with his name written in black.

Television series

 * Season 18 - Marion and the Pipe (cameo), No Steam Without Coal, Spencer's VIP, Marion and the Dinosaurs (cameo), and Timothy and the Rainbow Truck
 * Season 19 - Salty All at Sea (cameo)

Specials:
 * Tale of the Brave

Magazine stories

 * 2014 - Leaves on the Line! (does not speak)

Voice Actors

 * Tim Whitnall (UK/US)
 * Johannes Semm (Germany)
 * Paul Disbergen (The Netherlands)
 * Takahiro Suzuki (Japan; Tale of the Brave only)
 * Takuya Iwabata (Japan; eighteenth season onwards)
 * Fredrik Paasche (Norway)
 * Grzegorz Kwiecień (Poland)
 * Roberto Carrillo (Mexico)
 * Gheo Benjoino (Brazil)

Trivia

 * Timothy has been modified for use on British railways with loose couplings, added buffers, and a brake pipe.
 * Timothy has the same whistle sound as Thomas, but at a different pitch. He has a different whistle sound on the Tale of the Brave minisite, however.
 * In the Norwegian version of Tale of the Brave, Timothy is described as being a diesel engine.

Merchandise

 * Take-n-Play
 * Wooden Railway
 * TrackMaster
 * Collectible Railway
 * Capsule Plarail