Jeremiah Jobling

Jeremiah Jobling is a passenger on James' train in the Railway Series book "James the Red Engine" and the first season episode "James and the Coaches" (although, in this incarnation, he is nameless). When James ruins a brake pipe, the Guard asks him for his leather bootlaces to fix it. When he refuses, the passengers pressure him into giving the Guard his laces. It is not revealed if they are returned.