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Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo
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Thu, 12 May 2005 18:50:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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(SNIP)
Now, it is my understanding that all of the characters are all based on
real-life locos. Not so?
(SNIP)
JOHN
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The characters from the original 26 books by the Rev W Awdry, and the next 14
books by his son Christopher Awdry use characters based on real engines and
stories that happened on the real railway (whether transposed to a different
railway setting with different engines or not).
I can’t vouch for anything beyond the original books and I stick to characters
featured in the originals, building the real engine on which each character is
based.
These are the ones I know: Thomas is a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
(LBSCR) E2, of which 5 were built
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=742630
Gordon is an LNER Gresley A3 Pacific. Henry (in his new shape) is an LMS “Black
5” 4-6-0 painted green like the first of class (842 built). Duck is a GWR 5700
series pannier tank http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=742627
Toby is an LNER steam tram and such engines used to work in the docks
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=742631
Mavis is a class 04 shunter with cow-catchers and side-plates, like the first
few of the class (142 built). The engines for Edward and James are a bit less
clear. Donald and Douglas are NBR C class J36s. Stepney is an LBSCR A1X
“Terrier” tank engine, which can be seen for real at the Bluebell Railway in
East Sussex http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=742629
Of the diesels, “Diesel” is a Class 08 shunter, “Bear” is a Class 35 Hymek Bo-Bo
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=832399
“BoCo” is a Class 28 Metropolitan Vickers CoBo
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=707083
Pip and Emma are the two Class 43 diesels one each end of an HST. Other diesels
were also featured but not named.
Of the trucks, Toad the brake van is a standard GWR brake van, of which the type
was called Toad http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1103699 If
you wondering why “Toad”, other wagon types in Britain were named after various
fish.
Of the small engines on the Skarloey Railway, there are direct equivalents on
the Talyllyn Railway at Towyn in Wales: Skarloey is Talyllyn, Rheneas id
Dolgoch, Sir Handel is Sir Haydn, Peter Sam is Edward Thomas, Rusty has his real
name, Duncan is Douglas and Ivo Hugh is Tom Rolt. I think in all cases where
the names are of particular people like the manager, the relationship is the
same in the book as in real life.
Rex, Bert and Mike, the engines run by the Small Controller, have equivalents at
the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria (NW England).
The mountain engines of “Culdee Fell” are at the Snowdon Mountain Railway in
North Wales.
Of course there are other characters besides the trains, such as Bertie the bus,
Harold the Helicopter and Terence the Tractor.
There is also a site that lists a few more with pictures here:
http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/engines.htm
Those who have added characters after the Awdrys have demonstrated a lack of
understanding of how the original was formed - from real railway events with
real railway engines. I think it’s such a shame! What was a brilliant idea has
become corrupted by poor quality for commercial reasons.
Mark
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