Narrow Gauge Breakdown Train

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Narrow Gauge Breakdown Train (primary)
Narrow Gauge Breakdown Train (secondary)
Background Information
First appearance	Granpuff (primary type) (T&F) A Bad Day for Sir Handel (secondary type) (T&F)
Last appearance	Sir Handel in Charge (primary type) (T&F) Stepney Gets Lost (secondary type) (T&F)
Character Overview
Country	Island of Sodor France (primary type) (built)
Technical Details
Basis	French Magnard 6T Crane (primary type)
Gauge	2'3" (686 mm, narrow gauge)
Railway	Skarloey Railway Mid Sodor Railway (formerly)

The Narrow Gauge Breakdown Train is composed of one crane and conflat. It is often hauled by Rusty and used to mend the line and put engines back on the rails. The crane was also seen on the Mid Sodor Railway in the television series. Unlike the North Western Railway's breakdown train, the Narrow Gauge breakdown train does not have a works unit coach for the workmen. However, it is occasionally equipped with a brake van.

It appeared in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eleventh series. In the Railway Series, the breakdown crane was only mentioned in the book, Duke the Lost Engine.

A secondary type of Breakdown Train mounted on an open-wagon truck and accompanied with a brown brake van.

Technical Details

Basis

The primary Narrow Gauge Breakdown Train is based on a French Magnard six ton crane used in World War I.

The breakdown crane's basis

Livery

From the fourth series to the sixth series, the primary breakdown train was painted a reddish-brown all over. From the seventh series onwards, the crane itself became green while the conflats remained red.

Appearances

• Primary type
• Secondary type

Thomas & Friends Series 4 - Granpuff, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady, Special Funnel and Rock 'n' Roll Series 5 - Duncan Gets Spooked and Snow Series 6 - Dunkin Duncan Series 7 - The Old Bridge, The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop, Something Fishy, The Runaway Elephant, Bulgy Rides Again, Harold and the Flying Horse and Gordon and Spencer Series 11 - Wash Behind Your Buffers and Sir Handel in Charge Music Videos Series 11 - The Narrow Gauge Engines Magazine Stories 1998 - Really Useful Rusty! 2001 - A Special Story About Skarloey and Airborne Engine

Thomas & Friends

• Series 4 - A Bad Day for Sir Handel, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady (stock footage), Rock 'n' Roll, Passengers and Polish and Rusty to the Rescue
• Series 5 - Stepney Gets Lost
• Series 7 - Trusty Rusty (stock footage)

Trivia

• The large-scale model of the Breakdown Crane was briefly reused as a stationary crane used for set dressing at the Works and Knapford Sheds in the seventh series episodes, Something Fishy, Bulgy Rides Again and Gordon and Spencer.
• The small-scale model of the Breakdown Crane, which was used in the fourth and fifth series, is owned by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.

Merchandise

• Take Along (discontinued; known as "Rescue Cars")
• Plarail (discontinued)
• Collectible Railway

Mid Sodor Railway

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* RWS only | ** T&F only

Skarloey Railway

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* RWS only | ** T&F only