Eric

"Alaric and Eric are seven and eight, they're nice quiet engines."

- Ernest and Wilfred, Danger Points, Mountain Engines

 Railway Series=   Eric    Eric is a mountain engine on the Culdee Fell Railway. Like most of the other mountain engines, he has his own coach used for passenger services.
 * Number: CFR 8
 * Builder: Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
 * Built: 1962
 * Gauge: 2ft 7 1⁄2in
 * Configuration: 0-4-2RT
 * Arrived on Sodor: August 1962

Bio
Eric was the last engine to be ordered by the Culdee Fell Railway and he was built at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1962 to a "super-heat" design. He arrived on Sodor in time to help ease the strain of the last two months of the season.

Eric later was mentioned in a conversation between Culdee, Wilfred, and Ernest. According to them, Eric is "nice and quiet".

Basis
Eric is based on Eryri, an engine who worked on the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Eryri was withdrawn in 1992 and is unlikely to return to service.

Livery
Eric is painted purple with orange lining. The number "8" is painted on the sides and back of his cab in yellow and he has red nameplates, with his name in gold, on the sides of his tanks.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Mountain Engines - Danger Points (mentioned), and "Devil's Back" (not named; mentioned)

Companion volumes
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 * 1972 - The Railway Series: Surprise Packet (mentioned)
 * 1976 - Famous Engines and Railway Map of the Island of Sodor
 * 1979 - Annual (mentioned)
 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned)
 * 2005 - Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned)