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The Peel Godred Engines are a set of Bo-Bo electric engines powered by overhead wires who run the Peel Godred Branch Line.

Biography

The Railway Series

The Peel Godred Branch Line was built as a light railway, and as the gradients are heavy, it was agreed that it should be worked by electric locomotives on current supplied by the Peel Godred Power Company. The traffic is mainly freight, but eight passenger trains run each way daily from Killdane. Four of these run to and from Cronk, with the locomotive exchange being made at Killdane.[1]

No specific details are given as to the engines that first worked the Peel Godred Branch Line. As of 2005, goods traffic is handled by engines similar to the British Rail (BR) Class 86 and 87, while the passenger services are run by electric multiple units. The goods engines deal with the line's heavy aluminium traffic.[2]

Thomas & Friends

Bad Days for Thomas

One of the electric engines features in the story Nearly an Unhappy Christmas. This engine is said to be male, but because he is a new engine, does not have a name yet.

Technical Details

Basis

The goods engines are said to be similar to the BR Class 86 and BR Class 87 engines.[2]

The passenger engines, meanwhile, are BR Electric Multiple Units (EMUs).[2] While their specific basis is unknown, it is most likely they would be part of the first generation of AC/dual-voltage EMUs.

In the book More Bad Days for Thomas and his Friends, the new electric engine which appears resembles either a BR Class 90 or BR Class 91. One BR Class 91, No. 91124, used to bear the name Reverend W. Awdry, after the creator of The Railway Series.

As these classes did not exist when the branch line opened in 1923, there would have most certainly been different engines running it when it first opened. What these engines were, however, is currently unknown.

Livery

In More Bay Days for Thomas and his Friends, the BR Class 90/91 is shown to be painted in a two-tone version of BR Rail Blue. They have yellow warning panels on their front and back ends.

The liveries used by the original engines, the goods engines and the electric multiple units are currently unknown.

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