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Other Real Diesel Locomotives

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Several other real diesel standard gauge locomotives have appeared in Thomas & Friends media.

BR No. 11001

11001 was a prototype diesel locomotive built by British Railways.

It is the real-life counterpart of Dennis. Additionally, Norman and the Custom Diesel share the same basis.

Appearances

Miscellaneous

BR 11001 was mentioned on Dennis and Norman's Engine Depot pages on the Official Website[1][2].

BR Class 04 No. D2203

D2203 appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia, The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned; not named) and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned; not named).

Trivia

  • Mavis is another member of this class.
  • D2203 is the only surviving locomotive from the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway.

Gallery

BR Class 04 No. D2298

D2298 appears in Character Encyclopedia, The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned; not named) and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned; not named).

Trivia

  • Mavis is another member of this class.
  • D2298 has been used to portray Mavis on Days Out with Thomas events at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

BR Class 07 No. 07007

07007 is a diesel shunter which appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia and Character Encyclopedia. This specific engine is the real-life counterpart of Salty.

BR Class 08 No. 08288

08288 appears in Hello Thomas and James and Thomas Goods Encyclopedia.

Trivia

BR Class 08 No. 08377

08377 appears in Original 70th Anniversary History Time Travel.

Trivia

BR Class 08 No. 08604 Phantom

Phantom appears in Character Encyclopedia.

Trivia

BR Class 08 No. 08850

08850 is a diesel shunter. It is seen shunting a milk tanker in the Mr. Perkins' Railway segments. This engine (based in service mainly on the Western Region) was numbered D4018 until the early 1970's, when it was re-numbered 08 850. In preservation it was based on the West Somerset Railway but has moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway where it can still be seen today.

Technical Details

Livery

The Class 08 diesel is painted in the British Railways' "Rail Blue" livery with yellow warning panels.

Trivia

BR Class 08 No. D3007

D3007 appeared in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia.

Trivia

Gallery

BR Class 08 No. D3369

D3369 appeared in an annual story.

Appearances

Annuals

Trivia

BR Class 08 No. D3937 Gladys

Gladys appears in Secret Journey of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Trivia

BR Class 11 No. AD601

AD601 is a diesel shunter which appeared in the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSR), locomotive number 7120 was one of a batch of 30 locomotives constructed at their Derby works between 1945 and 1948.

Powered by a 350hp English Electric 6KT 4-stroke diesel engine with 6 cylinders of 10" (254mm) bore by 12" (305mm) stroke, this design of locomotive is actually a diesel-electric, as the wheels are connected by two axle-hung, nose-suspended, 430V traction motors driven from a generator connected to the engine.

Livery

AD601 is painted in the British Railways black livery.

Gallery

BR Class 17 No. D8500

D8500 was a diesel engine built in 1962.

Appearances

Miscellaneous

D8500 was mentioned on Derek's Engine Depot pages on the Official Website and ERTL character card description[3].

BR Class 24 No. D5032 Helen Turner

Helen Turner is a diesel engine which appeared in an annual story.

Appearances

Annuals

BR Class 24 No. D5061 Experiment

Experiment is a diesel engine. It is seen pulling passengers in coaches. It appeared in the Mr. Perkins' Railway segments.

After 2014, Experiment was withdrawn from service in need of an overhaul.

Technical Details

Livery

Experiment is painted in British Railways Deep Bronze green with red buffer beams.

Gallery

BR Class 25 No. D7628 Sybilla

Sybilla is a diesel engine. It appeared in the Mr. Perkins' Railway segments, where it was in the works waiting for new wheels.

Technical Details

Livery

Sybilla is painted in British Railways' two tone green livery with yellow warning panels.

BR Class 27 No. 27024

27024 is a diesel engine which appeared in the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Livery

27024 is painted in British Railways "Rail Blue" livery with yellow warning panels.

BR Class 28 No. D5710

D5710 appeared in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia, The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned; not named) and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned; not named).

Trivia

BR Class 35 No. D7063

D7063 appeared in The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned; not named) and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned; not named).

Trivia

  • Bear is another member of this class.

BR Class 37 No. 37264

37264 is a diesel locomotive. It appeared in the Mr. Perkins' Railway segments.

Technical Details

Livery

37264 is painted in British Railways' "Rail Blue" livery with large logo and yellow warning panels.

BR Class 37 No. D6836

D6836 appears in Original 70th Anniversary History Time Travel.

BR Class 40 No. 40195

40195 appeared in an annual story.

Appearances

Annuals

Trivia

BR Class 43 (HST)

A Class 43 engine in the Great Western Railway green livery appears in Original 70th Anniversary History Time Travel.

Trivia

Gallery


BR Class 101 No. 101680

101680 is a BR Class 101 diesel multiple-unit (DMU) train. The train is made of two DMUs, nos. 50204 built in 1957 and 51511 built in 1959. They appeared in the Mr. Perkins' Railway segments.

Technical Details

Livery

The Diesel Railcar set is painted BR green with small yellow warning panels.

Trivia

  • Daisy is a member of its class, with the difference being that Daisy is a single railcar, whereas the real units could have configurations of 2-4 cars per set.

BR Class 109 Nos. 50416 and 56171

50416 and 56171 are a 2-car diesel multiple-unit (DMU) train. They appeared in the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Real-life History

This two-car class 109 DMU was part of an original fleet of 5 units built for British Railways (BR) in 1957 by D. Wickham and Co. – the same builders as the track inspection trolleys that inspired the character Winston.

The class was a unique design, inspired from the lightweight diesel railcars used in South America. They were fitted with two 150 horsepower BUT Leyland 6-cylinder engines. The unique nature of the design resulted in them being withdrawn in 1971. One set was exported to Trinidad and Tobago, one set went into departmental service, two sets were scrapped; but the other set was not. That set was overhauled in 1967 at Doncaster Works and used on the General Manager's special train until retirement in 1971.

Today they are based at the Llangollen Railway, where they are in working order. This set was restored using lottery money.

Livery

50416 and 56171 are painted dark green with cream lining.

Trivia

  • Five sets were built between 1957 and 1958; 50416 and 56171, the second set built, is the only surviving set.

BR Class 122 No. W55003

W55003 appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia.

Trivia

BR Class 122 No. W55005

W55005 appears in Character Encyclopedia.

Canadian National SW1200 Class No. 7309

7309 appears in the Thomas the Tank Engine Man documentary.

Fowler 0-4-0 Diesel Mechanical

This engine appears on the cover of the Great Railways book, which appeared in the sixteenth series episode Flash Bang Wallop!

Trivia

  • Thumper's front-end is based on this type of diesel.


FS Class ALn 772

The FS Class ALn 772 is a diesel-railcar. Awdry's 00 gauge model of the engine was used in place of Class 40 as reference for Gunvor and Peter Edwards when illustrating Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine.


Jones Shunting Crane No. 10071

10071 is a diesel-powered shunting crane, used to lift heavy objects.

Technical Details

Real-life History

This crane was built for the Ministry of Supply and numbered 10071 where it proved its military usefulness. Soon, 10071 was sold to the Weldit Engineering Company in the Barrow-in-Furness dockyards and by 1980 it was retired. Later in the same year it was bought and preserved by the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway for use on maintenance trains. As of now it is awaiting an overhaul. It appeared on the Down at the Station segments.

Livery

The diesel crane is painted dark green.

Lancaster, Oxford & Southern Railcar No. 10

The Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway doodlebug car is a doodlebug car that was seen at the Strasburg Rail Road hauling passengers in 10 Years of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and sitting in the yard in A Wonderful American Journey with Thomas and Connie.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built in 1915 by the Oxford shops from the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway, it was later purchased from Grasse River Railroad in 1962. It was sold to the Strasburg Rail Road, where it works today operating in passenger service and as a substitute for any of the steam engines, in case one or all of them were out of service.

Gallery

PRR E7A No. 5901

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 5901 is an EMD E7A diesel that appears in A Wonderful American Journey with Thomas and Connie.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built in September 1945 it was used for the South Wind, a joint PRR/L&N/ACL Chicago-Miami service. It was also given random interim assignments on passenger runs between Harrisburg and Altoona, PA.

It was one of the first passenger diesels on the Pennsylvania Railroad, under whose diesel classification scheme it was designated an EP20 (Electro-Motive, Passenger, 2000 horsepower).

Today, it is on static display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. This locomotive has been cosmetically restored and is on indoor display. It is also the sole surviving E7.

Livery

The locomotive is painted in its Pennsylvania Railroad Tuscan Red with Gold Pinstripes and the Pennsylvania Railroad's keystone is red.

PRR GP9 No. 7006

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 7006 is an EMD GP9 diesel that appears in A Wonderful American Journey with Thomas and Connie.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built in 1955, it was part of an order of three hundred and ten GP9s that spelled the end of steam on the Pennsylvanian railroad: within two years, the last steam locomotive ceased operation.

It was gifted to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in 1985 and was repainted in its original PRR black livery at Altoona in 2002.

Rolls Royce Sentinel No. 10283 Progress

Progress appears in Character Encyclopedia.

Trivia

  • Den is another member of this class, albeit the diesel-hydraulic version.

Strasburg Rail Road No. 21

Strasburg Rail Road No. 21 is a Railbus that sits in storage while it appears in 10 Years of Thomas.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built in 1921, this rare surviving railroad bus was built by Brill Motorcar Company and was powered by a gasoline engine built by Mack Brothers, later Mack Trucks.

It was built for the Lewisburg, Milton & Watsontown shortline in Pennsylvania United States. The bus carried local passengers for several railroads until it came to the Strasburg Rail Road in 1969. It ran infrequently there in the 1970s and was donated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in 2001 where it is on public display.

Strasburg Rail Road No. 33

Strasburg Rail Road No. 33 is a diesel engine that was seen shunting the Strasburg Rail Road's replica of Thomas out of the shed during Connie's visit to the railroad in A Wonderful American Journey with Thomas and Connie.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built by General Electric of Schenectady, New York, United States in 1948, it was used by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a shop switcher at the railroad's East Altoona shops until 1961, when the Pennsylvania Railroad leased it to the Strasburg Rail Road before it was purchased in 1966. Between 1971 and 2006, the engine was painted in a red colour scheme and renumbered 33. In 2006, it was repainted in its Pennsylvania Railroad livery and given its original number, 9331. In 2013, the Strasburg Rail Road sold it to the Walkersville Southern Railroad in Maryland, where it now operates.

Trivia

Amtrak No. 111

Amtrak No. 111 is a diesel engine that was seen in Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built by General Electric in the Summer of 1997 and delivered in the Phase IV Northeast Corridor paint scheme, it was originally allocated for maintenance in Wilmington, Delaware, United States and was part of the Northeast Corridor Keystone Pool, usually operating on Amtrak Keystone services from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It also substituted on Northeast Corridor Virginia Pool trains from time to time, such as the Twilight Shoreliner.

In September 2020, 111 had seen frequent service on the Lake Shore Limited, as the need for an engine change at New Haven and Albany had been suspended on three truncated routes due to the coronavirus pandemic, which reduced travel demand and non-essential cross border travel. In mid-December 2020, it was seen straying away from its captive area on the Capitol Limited from Chicago to Washington, D.C.

Livery

When it was featured in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, it wore an Amtrak Phase IV Northeast Corridor grey paint scheme which was a striking departure from the traditional red, white and blue style.

Appearances

Thomas & Friends

Specials

Trivia

  • In "Thomas and the Magic Railroad", it idled at the Amtrak Station in Harrisburg, PA, known as the "Harrisburg Transportation Center". 111 could be seen during the departure of the Rainbow Sun through reflections on the windows of the coaches.

Gallery


Strasburg Rail Road No. 1

Strasburg Railroad No. 1 is a diesel that sits in storage at the Strasburg Rail Road while it appears in A Wonderful American Journey with Thomas and Connie.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Originally built in 1926, this 18 tonner engine features a gasoline engine built by Climax.

It was sold to the Strasburg Rail Road that same year in 1926 where it still runs today.

Appearances

Video Releases

Trivia

  • This was the Strasburg Rail Road's first ever internal combustion engine.
  • It has a HL type 3 gas powered 20 ton model.
  • The engine is notable for being used to reconstruct the track and rails for the railroad between 1958 and 1959, after the railroad was purchased to become a tourist line.

Western Yeoman II

Western Yeoman II is an exported American diesel which works at Merehead Quarry in the United Kingdom.

Gallery

Tame

Tame was a little green diesel engine that worked at Barrow-in-Furness.

Technical Details

Real-life History

The Frank Hibberd standard gauge four-wheel diesel-mechanical engine (W/No. 3685 of 1954), which previously worked at David Caird's Barrow-in-Furness foundry along with two Ruston & Hornsby diesels, was temporarily placed in a children's play area adjoining a caravan park on the exposed Walney Island (Sodor) upon closure of the foundry. With Piel Island and castle visible behind to the right and photographed on 21 April 1992, the Planet engine was eventually disposed of for scrap. David Caird founded the Furness Foundry and Engineering Works in Barrow in 1884 and made high quality haematite castings for marine and general engineering use. Competition from larger steel plants saw the end of production in December 1987.[4]

Trivia

  • Tame to an extent counts a Sodor engine considering it was put on display at a caravan park on the Isle of Walney which was "replaced" on the maps by the Island of Sodor, despite not having been acknowledged in any official media relating to The Railway Series or Thomas & Friends.

See also

  • D5701 - a BR Class 28.
  • D5702 - a BR Class 28.
  • D5705 - a BR Class 28.
  • D31120 - a BR Class 31.
  • D40125 - a BR Class 40.
  • D261 - a BR Class 40.
  • 43047 - a BR Class 43.
  • Arundel Castle - a Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 diesel shunter which worked at the Manchester Ship Canal.
  • Leys - an 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic shunter built by W. G. Bagnall.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509164348/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/dennis Dennis' Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509165244/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/norman Norman's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19980629025632/http://www.thomasthetankengine.com/engine/paxman.htm Derek's page on The Official Website
  4. ↑ https://x.com/askhamhall1772/status/1736105126891319613
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