Aside from those featured in Thomas and the Great Railway Show, several other real engines owned by the National Railway Museum have appeared in various pieces of The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends media. For a comprehensive list on all locomotives - click here.
BR Class 31 No. D5500[]
D5500 is a diesel-electric engine.
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D5500 is painted in British Rail blue with big yellow panels at each end.
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- Dwayne and the First Diesel are other members of this class.
BR Standard Class 9F No. 92220 Evening Star[]
Evening Star is a large green tender engine. It holds the distinction of being the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways and the only member of its class to be named by British Railways.
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Evening Star is painted in British Rail green with black and orange lining and has the BR late crest on both sides of its tender.
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- Murdoch and Cock O' The North are other members of this class.
- Murdoch's concept art illustrated by Robert Gauld-Galliers, is based on a photograph of Evening Star in the 1960s.
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FR A2 Class No. 3 "Old Coppernob"[]
Furness Railway No. 3, nicknamed Old Coppernob, is a preserved tender locomotive from the Furness Railway.
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It was built in 1846 by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy of Liverpool as a four wheel-coupled version of Bury's famous bar frame design.
Old Coppernob was withdrawn from service in 1900 and is on static display at the National Railway Museum in York.
Livery[]
Old Copernob is painted in the Furness Railway's Indian red livery with black lining.
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GNR Class J13 No. 1247[]
1247 is a saddle tank engine.
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It was built in 1899 for the Great Northern Railway (GNR). After it was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), it was reclassified from the GNR Class J13 to the LNER Class J52.
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1247 is painted green.
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GNR G3 Stirling Single No. 1[]
No. 1 is a tender locomotive with a single set of drive wheels. It appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia and Character Encyclopedia.
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No. 1 is painted green.
Trivia[]
- Emily is another member of this class.
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GNR Class C1 Atlantic No. 251[]
251 is a tender locomotive.
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251 is painted green.
GWR 4073 Class No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle[]
Caerphilly Castle is a tender locomotive which is mentioned in The Thomas the Tank Engine Man.
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It has been on permanent display at the STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway (formally the Swindon Works) since it opened in 2000.
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Caerphilly Castle is painted in dark green with black and orange lining.
LB&SCR B1 Class No. 214 Gladstone[]
Gladstone is a tender engine.
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Gladstone is painted in the LB&SCR goldenrod livery.
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NER 901 Class No. 910[]
910 is a tender engine.
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910 is painted green.
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NER Class ES1 No. 1[]
ES1 No. 1 is an electric shunting engine.
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ES1 No. 1 is painted green.
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NER No. 66 Aerolite[]
Aerolite is a preserved British tank engine originating from the North Eastern Railway. It was classified X1 by the LNER.
Whiff is based on Aerolite.
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Real-life History[]
Aerolite was built in 1869 to replace a destroyed Kitson locomotive of the same name and to haul the Mechanical Engineer's saloon coach, which is also preserved on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. It was rebuilt extensively several times during its career. It was classified X1 by the LNER in 1923 and was retired in 1933, being preserved at York the following year.
It can be found at the National Railway Museum in York.
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Aerolite is painted in a light green livery.
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Annuals
Books
Miscellaneous
Aerolite was also mentioned on Whiff's Engine Depot page, on the Official Website[1]. |
LNWR Precedent Class No. 790 Hardwicke[]
Hardwicke is a tender engine.
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Hardwicke is painted in black with red and white lining.
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NSR Battery-Electric Shunter No. 1[]
NSR No. 1 is a 4w battery-electric locomotive originating from the North Staffordshire Railway. Stafford is based on this engine.
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NSR No. 1 was built at Stoke Railway Works in 1917 according to the specification of the NSR's Locomotive Superintendent J.A. Hookham and Electrical Engineer A.F. Rock. It was designed to be able to contend with the narrow internal railway of Thomas Bolton & Sons Ltd. Copper Works. It was one of only two battery electric locomotives to be employed by a British main line company and on one charge, could run for up to six hours and haul a load of more than four times its weight at 11mph. It was retired in 1963, having had only two drivers in its entire career. Since 1975, No. 1 has been preserved at the National Railway Museum.
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NSR No. 1 is made of veneered wood with yellow lining.
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Trivia[]
- Stafford's number comes from the year his basis was built and his name comes from where his basis worked.
SECR D class No. 737[]
737 is a tender engine.
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737 is painted green.
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SR Battle of Britain Class No. 21C151 Winston Churchill[]
| This article is about the standard gauge engine. You may be looking for the minimum gauge engine. |
Winston Churchill is a preserved locomotive, who is owned by the National Railway Museum, named after the wartime prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Winston Churchill is a Southern Railway Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 originally numbered 21C151, later renumbered 34051 by British Railways on 23 October 1948. Built in Brighton Works in December 1946, he hauled the late Winston Churchill's funeral train on 30 January 1965, only to be withdrawn from service on 19 September 1965.
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Winston Churchill was originally painted in Bulleid's malachite green with yellow lining and sunshine lettering. He was repainted in British Railways' Deep Bronze green in December 1950.
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Thomas & Friends
Music Videos
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Ellerman Lines is a tender engine.
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Ellerman Lines was sectioned in 1974 to show how a steam locomotive worked from the inside.
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Ellerman Lines is painted dark green.
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References[]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509165244/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/whiff Whiff's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509164348/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/stafford Stafford's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
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