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Background Information[]
In the Railway Series[]
City of Truro is based on the real-life locomotive of the same name. He appeared in the Railway Series book, Duck and the Diesel Engine, which was published in 1958. He was the first real-life locomotive to appear in the series.
Illustrations of City of Truro:
1957 City of Truro as illustrated by John T. Kenney (1958)
1980 City of Truro as illustrated by Edgar Hodges (1980)
Behind the Scenes[]
Awdry's model[]
The Reverend Wilbert Awdry built an OO scale model of City of Truro. The model was later put on display on the mantelpiece of the Awdry's Study exhibit at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, at the Tywyn Wharf station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales.[1]