Snowploughs (UK) or Snowplows (US) are devices used by the engines to clear snow from the tracks as they pull their trains during winter. They are usually fastened onto the engine's front buffers and push the snow aside when the engines run through it. Most snowploughs are painted in the colour corresponding to their engine's livery. Some engines are known to hate their snowploughs as they tend to be heavy and uncomfortable, such as the case with Thomas. Eventually though, he got used to his snowplough after the seventeenth series episode, No Snow for Thomas, though he does still complain about it in later episodes.
Thomas' Snowplough[]
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Thomas' first snowplough is painted in North Western Railway (NWR) blue.
His secondary snowplough is made out of dark rusted brown iron.
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Annual Stories
Magazine Stories
Books
My Thomas Story Library
Engine Adventures
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Merchandise[]
- ERTL (discontinued)
- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
- Take Along (discontinued)
- Push Along (discontinued)
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
- Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
- Capsule Plarail
- Bachmann
- Thomas Engine Collection Series (discontinued)
- Pocket Fantasy (discontinued)
Edward's Snowplough[]
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In the ninth series episode Keeping Up with James, Edward's snowplough is silver. However, as of the seventeenth series episode No Snow for Thomas, Edward's snowplough is NWR blue like Edward himself.
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Henry's Snowplough[]
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In the magazine story Snow Fun for Henry, Henry's snowplough is NWR green. In the ninth series episode Keeping Up with James, his snowplough is silver. In the CGI series, Henry's snowplough is NWR green with red lining around it and red vertical lines going down it.
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Magazine Stories[]
- 1992 - The Dark Engine
- 2001 - Snow Fun for Henry
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Engine Adventures[]
- 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas
Merchandise[]
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
Gordon's Snowplough[]
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In the ninth series episode Keeping Up with James, Gordon's first snowplough is silver. In the CGI series from the thirteenth to twenty-second series, his second snowplough is NWR blue with red lining around it and red vertical lines going down it. In the twenty-third and twenty-fourth series, his third snowplough is NWR blue.
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James' Snowplough[]
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On a 1990 postcard, James' snowplough is black. In the ninth series episode Keeping Up with James, his snowplough is silver. In the CGI series, James' snowplough is red.
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Merchandise[]
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
Percy's Snowplough[]
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In the annual story Post Early for Christmas, Percy's snowplough is black. In the ninth series episode Keeping Up with James and the CGI series, Percy's snowploughs are NWR green. In the eleventh series episode Henry's Lucky Day, Percy's snowplough is silver.
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- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
- Take-n-Play (discontinued)
Duck's Snowplough[]
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Both of Duck's snowploughs are green.
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Merchandise[]
- Pocket Fantasy (discontinued)
Donald and Douglas' Snowploughs[]
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All of Donald and Douglas' snowploughs are black.
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Annual Stories[]
- 2000 - Donald and Douglas
Magazine Stories[]
- 2001 - Midnight Mavis
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My Thomas Story Library[]
- 2003 - Donald and Douglas and Terence
Merchandise[]
- Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
Oliver's Snowplough[]
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Oliver's snowplough is painted green.
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Emily's Snowplough[]
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In the model series, Emily's snowplough is silver. In the CGI series, Emily's snowplough is emerald green.
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Merchandise[]
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
Bill and Ben's Snowploughs[]
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Bill and Ben's snowploughs are painted black.
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Stepney's Snowplough[]
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Stepney's snowplough is painted black.
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Spencer's Snowplough[]
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Spencer's snowplough is painted black.
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Rosie's Snowplough[]
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Rosie's snowplough is painted lavender like herself before her repaint into red.
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Hiro's Snowplough[]
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Hiro's snowplough is painted black like himself.
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Merchandise[]
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
Bash and Dash's Snowploughs[]
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Yong Bao's Snowplough[]
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Yong Bao's snowplough is painted red like himself.
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Nia's Snowplough[]
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Nia's snowplough is painted black.
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Merchandise[]
- Push Along (discontinued)
Rebecca's Snowplough[]
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Rebecca's snowplough is painted yellow like herself.
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The Mean Engines' Snowploughs[]
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The Mean Engines' snowploughs are painted black.
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Diesel's Snowplough[]
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Diesel's snowplough is painted black like himself.
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Victor's Snowplough[]
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Victor's snowplough is painted red like himself.
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Terence's Snowplough[]
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Terence's snowplough is painted orange like himself.
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Thomas & Friends
Specials
Music Videos
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Annual Stories
Magazine Stories
Books
My Thomas Story Library
Engine Adventures
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Merchandise[]
- Bachmann
- Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
- Pocket Fantasy (discontinued)
Jack's Snowplough[]
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Trivia[]
- Toby's cowcatchers double as built-in ploughs, but as seen in the sixth series episode It's Only Snow and the twentieth series episode Love Me Tender, they work best with light layers of snow and particularly low drifts.
- In the sixth series episode, It's Only Snow, Thomas is seen wearing a different snowplough instead of his usual blue one.
- No diesel engines have ever been seen wearing snowploughs throughout the entirety of the television series.
- Terence has been the only non-rail vehicle to be seen wearing a snowplough, although Jack was planned to have one in the cancelled Jack and the Pack episode Jack's Snow Rescue.
- Duck's snowplough used to share the same design as Donald and Douglas' original snowploughs. It was then utilised by Percy in the ninth series episode, Keeping Up with James. Starting from the eighteenth series, Duck wore a snowplough to the same design as Thomas'.
- In the ninth series, all the engines except Thomas and Percy had silver snowploughs, with the sides of each plough painted in the same livery as the engine who wore it. However, Henry did have a green snowplough that went unused.
- Starting from the thirteenth series onwards, all of the engines' snowploughs were painted in the liveries corresponding to them and are based on the design of Thomas' snowplough, excluding Victor's, Donald's, Douglas', Henry's, Gordon's, James' and Emily's. In the merchandise ranges, excluding the Donald and Douglas Snowplough set from Motor Road and Rail, all the engines' snowploughs are based on the design of Thomas' snowplough.
- The North Western Railway is the only railway seen to use snowploughs.
- Starting with the twentieth series, Donald and Douglas' snowploughs are the same designs as Emily's, as is Spencer's in the twenty-first series.
- Most of the snowploughs in the merchandise ranges are not removable.
- Starting in Big World! Big Adventures! and the twenty-second series, Yong Bao gains a snowplough of the same design as Gordon's and Henry's, and Nia gains one of Thomas' designs, although her's is black (yet her TrackMaster Push Along snowy variant is depicted with an orange plough). Likewise, Rebecca gains one to the same design as Emily's.
- As of the twenty-third series, Gordon's snowplough has changed to the design used by Emily.
- Dustin and Marshall have rotary snowploughs as they are snowplough locomotives.
- The tenth, fourteenth, and sixteenth series were the only series not to have an engine wear a snowplough.
- Nia and Hiro have the same snowplough, in structure and livery. This also applies to Donald and Douglas and The Mean Engines. Since the eighteenth series, Thomas and Edward also share this distinction.
- Gordon is the only engine on the Island of Sodor known to have an alternate snow clearing device other than a snowplough, that being his own snow machine.