The Water Works

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The Water Works
Background Information
First appearance	The Great Discovery (2008)
Last appearance	Best Friends (2008)
Creator(s)	Sharon Miller
Overview
Location	Great Waterton, Island of Sodor
Year opened	March 1953 (reopening)
Operations
Managed by	North Western Railway
Line(s)	The Main Line Stepney's Branch Line
No. of platforms	1

The Water Works is a large waterworks located at Great Waterton.

History

Thomas & Friends

The Water Works consists of some large buildings which housed the steam pumping engines, as well as the standpipe tower which dwarfs all the buildings. Inside the waterworks, there have been two steam pumping engines with a large stationary boiler to provide steam pressure.

The standpipe tower has a huge iron pipe inside its structure; its purpose is to allow the steam pumping engines to pump the water up the standpipe and then, by gravity, the pressure inside the standpipe moves the water along with the water mains towards all the other towns. Once the waterworks closed the standpipe tower fell into disrepair, and it was a huge undertaking to restore the standpipe - especially as Thomas' trick on Stanley caused the trucks to crash into it. Now, the standpipe tower looks as good as new. Harvey is said to work here.

Appearances

• Television Series

Thomas & Friends

• Series 12 - Steady Eddie, Toby's Special Surprise, James Works It Out, Tram Trouble, Gordon Takes a Shortcut, Percy and the Bandstand and Best Friends

Specials

• 2008 - The Great Discovery
• 2009 - Hero of the Rails (title sequence only)

Trivia

• The waterworks is based upon the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London, which is housed in a steam-driven pumping station, originally used for pumping clean water for all of London.
• The tower is currently on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park although it's top half was cut down in order to fit.
• A stunt wall made for the tower can be purchased from prop dealership The Movie Reliquary in separate sections.

The Main Line

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* David Mitton maps only | ** Sam Wilkinson map only

Stepney's Branch Line

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