Farmer Collett is a farmer who regularly appeared in the magazines.
He is good friends with Jem Cole and owns a bull named Lord Harry, several horses and other animals. He and his wife own a farm and two tractors (a red one and a green one). They also have four children; three sons and a daughter.
Biography
Thomas & Friends
Farmer Collett been seen working at McColl Farm on a few occasions. He once herded some sheep that were to be taken to McColl Farm, however, a sleep deprived Thomas took them to a farmer's market instead.
Magazines
Collett is old-fashioned and often reminisces about the "good old days". He regularly travels to the village on one of his horses along a bridleway, which was split in two when Thomas' Branch Line was constructed. The gap was later bridged when the Fat Controller purchased a cheap scrap turntable from the Mainland to be made into a bridge to cross Thomas' line.
Farmer Collett once decorated an old oil tank to make it look like Thomas in an effort to get a rare bluebird to move out of Thomas' funnel. The trick worked and the bluebird now happily resides in a chimney pot on the old oil tank. Thomas named the oil tank, Bluebird. After drawing the face on the oil tank, Thomas remarked that Collett is a good artist as well as a farmer.
When Collett's sheep escaped and ended up at the engine sheds, searching for food, Percy returned them to the farm.
Collett once got stuck in a ford with his horse and cart and two boxes of plums. Terence had to come to his rescue.
He once broke his foot at Gallow's End and was found by a rescue team and their dog, Lucky Charm. He was then airlifted to hospital in Harold.
Collett has worked as a gardener at Dingley Hall where he cut some bushes into the shapes of animals which scared the engines.
Appearances
Thomas & Friends
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Magazine Stories
Farmer Collett also appeared in the magazine stories, Reindeer Cheer!, Animal Antics!, Bulgy's Bridge, Sodor's Strong Man, Spotty Spencer and Thomas Blew his Whistle. |
Trivia
- In the magazine story, Summer Fun!, Farmer Collett is represented by a photograph of Jem Cole from the fifth series episode, Baa!.
- Although Farmer Collett was unnamed in the television series, a magazine poster revealed that he was the sheep farmer in the eighth series episode, Chickens to School.
- Farmer Collett's large scale figure is a combination of the captain's body with a Railway Board member's head.
- His small scale figure was reused from a generic passenger body from the third series.
- Farmer Collett shares his surname with a locomotive designer for the Great Western Railway, Charles Collett.
| Locomotives | Flying Thistle | The Patentee-Class Replica | Publicity Engines | Silver | Thirteen | Sidney | The Red Tank Engines | Victor | Little Barford | The Blue Tender Engine | Emily's Ghost Engine | The Pier Train | The Cable Car | The High-Speed Post Train |
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| Rolling Stock | Annie and Clarabel's Old Friend | The Animal Sanctuary Coach | The Station Coach | The Play Coach | The New Coach | The Posh Coaches | Old Bennett | The Naughty Pink Truck | Carols on Wheels | The Old Guard's Van | The Elderly Brake Van |
| Vehicles | Angus | The Special Bus Service | The Open-Topped Double-Decker Bus | The Ice-Cream Van | The Float Lorry | The White Van | Bluebird | The Dodgems | Algy | The Tandem Rotor Helicopter |
| People | Farmer Collett | Dave | Minor Human Characters |