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

Andrew Barclay No. 1245

1245 is a small tank engine which appeared in the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Real-life History

This locomotive was delivered to the Carron Iron Company, Falkirk and given locomotive number 14, where it worked until 1947. Following this, it was transferred to the company’s site at Bannockburn to work on the Coke Ovens and in 1949 its ownership was transferred to the National Coal Board's Bannockburn Colliery, where it continued to work until a major rebuild in 1959 at the Alloa Central Workshops.

It was given the new designation of number 10 and spent the remainder of the 1960s working between the Michael Colliery and Wellesley Colliery in Fife.

In 1972 the locomotive was retired and sold for scrap to Thomas Muir Metal Merchants, who moved it to their Thornton yard in Fife for a short while before being put into longer term storage, with four other Andrew Barclay locomotives, at their yard in Kirkcaldy.

For the next 30 years the locomotive was totally neglected, until 2004 when, despite its appearance, it was purchased and moved to the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway for restoration. Work was intensive but 19 months later, repainted in an eye-catching Caledonian Blue livery, it steamed to Lakeside for the first time.

Livery

1245 is painted blue with yellow lining.

Appearances

Trivia

Gallery


Bear Harbor Lumber Company No. 1


Bash and Dash are based on this engine.

Appearances

Miscellaneous

Bear Harbor Lumber Company's locomotive #1 was mentioned on Bash and Dash's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[1][2].


Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 15

Main article: Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 15

DRG Class 61 No. 61 001

61 001 appears in The Making of The Great Race. It was a proposed basis for Frieda.


Dübs & Company Works No. 4101 "Dubsy"

4101, nicknamed Dubsy, is an 0-4-0 crane tank engine.

Harvey is based on this engine.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Dubsy is presently based at the Foxfield Railway in Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, England.

Livery

Appearances

Miscellaneous

Dubs Crane Engine No. 4101 was mentioned on Harvey's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[3].


GWR No. 101

GWR No. 101 is a 101 Class 0-4-0 side-tank locomotive that appears in Mr. Perkins' Railway Lesson as a Hornby model.

Technical Details

Real-life History

The real locomotive was built by the GWR Swindon Works in June of 1902 it was under the direction of George Jackson Churchward and was consisted of a single experimental 0-4-0 side-tank locomotive.

In 1903 it was given a Lentz boiler with a cylindrical corrugated firebox inside the barrel. The saddle tank for fuel was removed and oil stored at the rear end of the side tanks.

It was intended for light passenger service on the Wrington Vale Light Railway near Bristol. However, due to technical issues associated with the design, the locomotive never saw the intended service. It remained at Swindon Works, used as a works shunter. No further engines were built to this design, and the locomotive was withdrawn and scrapped in 1911.

Trivia

  • In July 1902, it was redesigned with a smaller firebox and a single burner.
  • In 1905, the locomotive was rebuilt as a coal burner, with the cab backplate replaced by a bunker.
  • Despite it being a unique, obscure and short-lived experimental loco, Hornby have been producing a 00 scale model of No. 101 since 1978, in many prototypical and non-prototypical guises. It is currently sold as part of the Railroad range. Hornby inaccurately ascribe the whole design to Holden, instead of just the oil-burning mechanism.


GWR No. 1340 Trojan

Trojan is an 0-4-0 saddletank engine from the Great Western Railway.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Trojan (Works No. 1386) was built in 1897 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England. Her first owners were Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. In 1903, she was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway. This was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923.

In July 1932, the GWR sold her to the Netherseal colliery, Burton-on-Trent. She changed hands again in 1947, going to Alders (Tamworth) Ltd.

Trojan is now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre. It was restored to working order in 2002 and remained in service on demonstration trains at Didcot until 2011 when it was withdrawn for a ten-yearly overhaul. Trojan was moved offsite in 2016 for the overhaul to take place, and returned in 2021.

Livery

Appearances

Books

Miscellaneous

Trivia

Gallery


GWR 1400 Class No. 4801

No. 4801 is a GWR 14xx class engine which appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned)

Technical Details

Real-life History

The Great Western Railways No. 4801 was built in August 1932 at Swindon. It was the second member of the 4800 class, which totalled 75 by 1936. In 1946 the locomotive along with the rest of its class were rebranded as the 1400 class (specifically as No. 1401), as the GWR converted twelve of its 2800 class of Consolidations to burn oil, reassigning the 4800 class to that series of experimental locomotives.

In 1953, she starred in the Ealing Studios comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, occasionally swapping numberplates with sister locomotive 1456, so more filming could be done quicker. A replica was also built for the crash sequence. After this, she carried on her existence as normal, before being broken up in November 1959. Stock footage of the engine in motion also appears in the 1966 Hammer horror film The Reptile.

4801 was to remain in service until November 1958 when it was withdrawn from 85B Horton Road shed in Gloucester before being scrapped in November 1959 by TW Ward of Briton Ferry.

Trivia

  • Oliver is another member of this class.

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GWR 4500 Class No. 4561


No. 4561 is a 4500 class 2-6-2T.

Appears in The Thomas the Tank Engine Man documentary.


GWR 5600 Class No. 5643

5643 is a tank engine which appeared on the Down at the Station segments. It was seen pulling passengers and being shunted by 44422. It is owned by the Furness Railway Trust and based at the Ribble Steam Railway but is currently out on loan.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Livery

5643 is painted in British Railways' Deep Bronze green livery with a brass safety valve bonnet.

Appearances


GWR 5700 Class No. 3738

3738 appeared in Character Encyclopedia.

Trivia

  • Duck is another member of this class.


GWR 5700 Class No. 5775


Appearances

Annuals

Trivia

  • Duck is another member of this class.
  • 5775 on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway featured in the film The Railway Children painted brown and lettered with GN&SR (Great Northern and Southern Railway).


GWR 5700 Class No. 7715

7715 appears in Character Encyclopedia

Trivia

  • Duck is another member of this class.


GWR 6400 Class No. 6430

6430 is a GWR 6400 class pannier tank engine which appeared in the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Livery

6430 is painted in the British Railway's Deep Bronze green livery.


GWR 8750 Class No. 9681

9681 appears in The Thomas the Tank Engine Man.

Gallery


Haydock Foundry Bellerophon

Bellerophon is a brown well-tank engine which currently resides on the Foxfield Railway.

Appearances

Annuals

Videos

Trivia

  • Sonny is another member of this class.


Hudswell Clarke No. 1800 Thomas

Hudswell Clarke No. 1800 Thomas is a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST which currently operates on the Nene Valley Railway. It has appeared in The Thomas the Tank Engine Man, A Day With Thomas at The Nene Valley Railway and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines (mentioned).

Technical Details

Real-life History

The real locomotive was built by Hudswell Clarke in 1947 for use at the British Sugar Corporation Peterborough factory. In 1970, the newly formed Peterborough Railway Society (later the Nene Valley Railway) began their work­ing base in a compound within sidings owned by the sugar factory. The engine's resemblance to Thomas became so well known that the engine was officially christened by Wilbert Awdry as "Thomas" in 1971. The railway would purchase "Thomas" on 9th September, 1973, becoming a significant draw for tourists visiting the railway for years to come.

HiT Entertainment later tried, unsuccessfully, to sue the Nene Valley Railway on the grounds that the engine was breaching their trademark, with the case being dismissed as the name was given by Awdry. However, "Thomas" is not authorized for use for Day Out with Thomas events, with the railway instead operating their own events.

Trivia

  • This is the first full-scale replica Thomas to operate on any railway.

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Hunslet Austerity No. 24 William H. Austen

William H. Austen is a Hunslet Austerity that appears in Thomas & the U.K. Trip when Gachapin and Mukku were visiting several heritage railways.

Trivia


Hunslet Austerity No. 150 Cumbria

Cumbria is a saddle tank engine. It appeared in the Down at the Station segments. It is seen pulling passengers. Cumbria is owned by the Furness Railway Trust and is the trust's first steam locomotive.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Livery

Cumbria is painted in the Furness Railway Indian Red livery with black lining.

Trivia


Hunslet Austerity No. 1873 Jessie

Appears in Secret Journey of Thomas the Tank Engine

Trivia


Hunslet Austerity No. 7136 Warrington

Awdry'sWarringtonModel

No. 7136 Warrington was built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn for the Ministry of Defence and started life at Donnington near Telford in Shropshire. The locomotive was then numbered WD150.

Trivia


Hunslet Austerity No. 7289 Fred


Appearances

Annuals

Trivia


Hunslet Austerity No. 75254

Appears in The Thomas the Tank Engine Man

Trivia


Hunslet Works No. 2705 Beatrice

This article is about the real engine. You may be looking for the guard's van.

Beatrice is a preserved saddle tank engine on the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway that appears in the Storytime with Mr. Evans segments.

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JNR Class C11 No. 292

C11 292 is a preserved tank engine which is on display in front of Shimbashi Station in Japan and appears in the Japanese online mini-series Salaryman Thomas.


John Steven’s Geared Locomotive (replica)

John Steven’s Geared Locomotive Replica appears in A Wonderful American Journey With Thomas and Connie. The original John Stevens was built to demonstrate very high pressure steam locomotives. It was the very first locomotive to run in the United States of America. John Steven ran on a loop in his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey.


Kitson Works No. 5459 Austin I


Appearances

Miscellaneous

Austin I is mentioned on Stanley's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[4].


LB&SCR E2 Class No. 105

105 is an 0-6-0 tank engine with extended side tanks from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

Appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia and Character Encyclopedia.

Trivia

  • Thomas is another member of this class.


LB&SCR E2 Class No. 107

107 is an 0-6-0 tank engine with extended side tanks from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

Appears in The Adventures of Thomas (concept art)

Trivia


LH&JC No. 29


Appearances

Annuals


LMS Fairburn 4MT No. 42073

42073 is a tank engine. It appeared on the Down at the Station segments.

Technical Details

Real-life History

As newly-built, but with a boiler manufactured in 1946, 42073 spent its first three months working from Stewarts Lane Depot, in Battersea, in London’s east end, before moving on to Ashford in Kent in February, 1951.

It was sent to Dover later the same year, then back to Ashford again in 1952. In November 1954, it was transferred to the North Eastern Region and allocated to Gateshead. Probably its most famous moment occurred on the 19th April 1955 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, when, below the Norman Keep of the castle, it did battle with the LNER Gresley V2 2-6-2 number 60968 on the diamond crossing.

They converged onto the same stretch of line and in the resulting collision the V2 fell onto its side. In 1957 it worked from Bradford and Sowerby Bridge; in 1958 from York and Neville Hill; in 1959 from Low Moor and Wakefield. At Copley Hill it was to have its longest stay from 1960 to 1964.

In 1965 it was back at Low Moor again and finally in Normanton in June 1967, where it joined 42085 for the first time.

Livery

42073 is painted in British Railways black with white lining.


LMS Ivatt Class 2MT No. 41241

41241 is a tank engine based at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Appearances

Annuals

Trivia


LMS Stanier Class 3P No. 91

LMS Stanier Class 3P 2-6-2T No. 91 appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia.

Trivia

  • In Thomas Goods Encyclopedia, the author of the book said that they think that the NBR G Class resembles Arthur more. However, his true basis is the LMS Ivatt Class 2MT.

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LSWR M7 No. 53

No. 53 is an LSWR M7 based at the Swanage Railway. It appears in 2014 magazines fact file.


L&YR Class 21 No. 51218

51218 appears in The Railway Series: Surprise Packet.

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Manning Wardle L Class No. 1210 Sir Berkeley


Appearances

Annuals

Trivia


Minaz No. 1173

The Minaz No. 1173 is an 0-4-0ST+PT locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works that worked at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Sugar Mill in Cuba in 1915.

Victor is based on this engine.

Technical Details

Real-life History

The Minaz No. 1173 used to work for the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Sugar Mill, and spent most of it's life to haul sugars. It was in poor condition and withdrawn from service after 1993.

It was rescued from Céspedes on the 3rd August 2012 then from there it was transferred to the Patria Sugar Mill Museum where it was repainted and put on display with other engines rescued from Céspedes and other sugar mills.

Today it is still at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Sugar Mill but it is out of service while placed on display with the other engines rescued from Céspedes and other sugar mills as well.

Livery

1173 is painted black with white lining, red sidetanks and counterweight. It has a silver smokebox, boiler, funnel and handrails.

1173 was previously painted black all-over a yellow stripe on either sides of tanks.

Appearances

Books

Miscellaneous

1173 was mentioned on Victor's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[5].

Trivia

  • The engine carried water in its saddle tank and oil in its side tanks.
  • Unlike his basis, Victor is portrayed as a narrow gauge engine. Victor originally carried the same number as his basis.


MSC No. 686 The Lady Armaghdale

MSC No. 686 The Lady Armaghdale is an inside cylindered Hunslet 0-6-0T side tank engine. It appears in The Making of Thomas the Tank Engine where it masquerades as Thomas for a Day Out with Thomas event.

Technical Details

Real-life History

The real locomotive was built as No. 14 "St. John" by the Hunslet Engine Company in 1898 for the Manchester Ship Canal. It would be sold to Imperial Chemical Industries as a replacement for a damaged locomotive in 1963, where it would be renamed as "The Lady Armaghdale". The engine would be the second purchased by the Warwickshire Industrial Loco Preservation Group, arriving on the Severn Valley Railway on 14 July 1969, before being withdrawn from service in 1988 due to boiler issues.

In June 1992, the success of a Day Out with Thomas event on the railway resulted in "The Lady Armaghdale" being overhauled as "Thomas" for use future events. The engine would be rebuilt to closely resemble Thomas, frequently being used for various events on the railway, across England, and even internationally in railways in Holland and Germany.

Following another withdrawal from service due to boiler issues in September 2009, the engine would cosmetically return to its red livery as 'The Lady Armaghdale'. The engine is currently on static display at the Engine House at the Severn Valley Railway. It is occasionally displayed with its Thomas face.

Trivia

  • Under its livery as Thomas, "The Lady Armaghdale" was the first SVR engine to go abroad in 2002 when it went to Holland.


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NBR G Class

NBR G Class

Appears in Thomas Goods Encyclopedia

Appearances

Books

Trivia


North British Works No. 24564 Coventry

Coventry is a tank engine owned by the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre which appeared in Thomas and the U.K. Trip painted to resemble Thomas.


Peckett No. 1900 "The Flying Bufferbeam"

Peckett No. 1900, nicknamed The Flying Bufferbeam, is an 0-4-0T tank steam locomotive that lives at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

In Thomas and the U.K. Trip, Gachapin and Mukku saw while visiting the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

Technical Details

Real-life History

No. 1900 was built in 1936 by Peckett & Sons of Bristol, England, it is the smallest standard gauge steam locomotive built in Britain, at a height of five feet, four inches. Unlike most of Peckett's products No. 1900 was not a standard design but still incorporated many standard parts, some of which came from narrow gauge designs.

As of today the engine is still at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre where it operates.

Livery

Appearances

Thomas & Friends

Specials

Trivia

  • With its diminutive size, it is known to many as The Flying Bufferbeam, though for a while at Quainton it had been named Jill.


Sentinel Works No. 7109 Joyce

Joyce is a Sentinel (chain-driven) vertical-boiler industrial steam locomotive.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Livery

Appearances

Thomas & Friends

Videos

Joyce was also mentioned on Logan's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[6].

Trivia

  • On the 2015 Official Website, Logan was incorrectly stated as being based on the Sentinel 7109. Logan is based on the S&DJR Sentinels, two similar-looking locomotives to Joyce. However, Joyce's number (7109) would be the inspiration for Logan's.
  • In Meet the Contenders, Raul is incorrectly described as being based on the Sentinel 7109. His true basis is the broad gauge Sentinel No. 166.


Sentinel Works No. 9369 Musketeer

Musketeer is a Sentinel 100 HP 'BE Type' (chain-driven) vertical-boiler industrial strength steam locomotive.

Scruff and Spunky Steamie are based on Musketeer.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Musketeer was built in 1946 built by Sentinel Waggon Works to work the Royal Ordnance Factory in Hooton, Wirral. It was purchased in 1958 by Thomas E. Gray Ltd. to shunt lime trucks from the Isham Quarries in Northamptonshire. Gray named the blue-liveried locomotive "Musketeer" to commemorate the Royal Navy ship that he served aboard during the Second World War. The coal-powered steam locomotive was retired in 1975 to the Northhamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust, Hunsbury Hill, Northants, where it is on static display.

Livery

Appearances

Miscellaneous

Musketeer was also mentioned on Scruff's Engine Depot page on The Official Website[7].


SR USA Class No. 72


Appearances

Trivia

  • Rosie is another member of this class.
  • The font style of red Rosie's NWR initials and number 37 is the same font that is used on 30072 of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.


Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern No. 65

No. 65 is an 0-6-0 saddle tank engine which appears in Character Encyclopedia.

Technical Details

Real-life History

Built in 1930 by the H. K. Porter Company of Pittsburgh, PA for the Safe Harbor Water and Power Company of Columbia it was first used as a switcher by The Arundel Corporation of Baltimore, MD for construction of the Safe Harbor Water and Power Company at Columbia, PA in 1930, and 1931. After the dam was constructed, the locomotive was sold to Safe Harbor where it would remain for the next four decades.

In 1941, the locomotive was reconditioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Then for a period during World War II #65 was used as a stationary boiler to provide steam for the Safe Harbor power house. This may have been due to wartime oil shortages.

In 1970, it was donated to the Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern Inc. Then, two years later in 1972, Number 65 was acquired from the Safe Harbor Water and Power Company of Columbia, PA where it worked as a switcher. Later that same year in 1972, the locomotive was donated to the Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad where it worked hauling tourist trains.

Today the locomotive is still at the Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad but it's right now under an Overhaul.

Trivia


See also

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509164348/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/bash Bash's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509165244/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/dash Dash's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509165244/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/harvey Harvey's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509164348/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/stanley Stanley's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509170141/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/victor Victor's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140818055845/http://www.thomasandfriends.com/en-us/Engines/logan.html Logan's Engine Depot page on The Official Website
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210509165244/https://play.mattel.com/thomas-and-friends/en-us/engines/scruff Scruff's Engine Depot page on The Official Website


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