Jeremiah Jobling

“The passengers all said what a bad railway it was. Then they told the man how bad he was instead. Everyone was very cross!”

― The narrator^[src]

Jeremiah Jobling was once a passenger on James' train.

Biography

After James bumped the coaches too hard, it was Jeremiah Jobling who had the leather bootlaces needed to mend the brake-pipe along with the newspaper. When he refused to give up the laces, the passengers started to say it was a bad railway and called him a bad man, which pressured him into giving them to the guard. It was not revealed if they were returned.

In the television series, it appears that he has become a railway inspector and once requested James to take him to the Fat Controller for a meeting.

Appearances

The Railway Series

James the Red Engine - James and the Bootlace

=Companion Volumes

1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection

Jeremiah Jobling also appeared in the magazine story, Lost Luggage!

Voice Actors

Hirohiko Kakegawa (Japan; first series only)
Katsuji Mori (Japan; Bertie's Chase)
Takeshi Endo (Japan; Daisy)
Toshio Kobayashi (Japan; third series only)
Yasuhiro Takato (Japan; Bulgy only)

Trivia

Jeremiah was never named in the television series.
In the third series, his hat was repainted into a different shade of brown. The body of his model was also swapped with other characters from this series onward.