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  1. Add book cover images to character pages
  2. Culdee Fell Railway locations (see Locations below)
  3. Oliver (see Characters below)
  4. Check for presence of WP:THOMAS flags on impt. pages
  5. Links gathering (ongoing) - see The Railway Series, below

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The Railway Series

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Book Cover images to be used

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Great potential for illustrating character pages using book cover images, in particular:

  • Peter Sam - Four Little Engines
  • Skarloey - Little Old Engine
  • Rheneas - Gallant Old Engine
  • Sir Handel - Great Little Engines
  • Ivo Hugh - New Little Engine
  • Annie & Clarabel - Tank Engine Thomas Again
  • Henrietta - Toby the Tram Engine
  • Bill & Ben - Thomas and the Twins
  • Mavis - Tramway Engines
  • Stepney - Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine
  • D4711 - Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine
  • Diesel - Duck and the Diesel Engine
  • Works Diesel - James and the Diesel Engines
  • NRM Engines (Rocket) - Thomas and the Great Railway Show
  • Pip & Emma - Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines
  • Bertie (just) - More about Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Harold - Percy the Small Engine (in background)
  • Fat Controller - Henry and the Express (also, earlier character?, appears on Enterprising Engines

Note that several structures are also visible, eg Ffarquhar shed, Arlesdale chute, etc.

References to add

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References are important. Add appropriate refs to non-Thomas-project pages:

Miscellaneous

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The Railway Stories

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Categories

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Locations

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See User:EdJogg/List of The Railway Series articles

Required:

(Do this in 'slow time' - can add piecemeal as other files are edited)

Mid Sodor Railway

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Skarloey Railway

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Await guidance from User:Gonzerelli before attempting anything significant. He is considering the best approach, and is (probably) planning a move of all characters to Skarloey Railway page.


The engines are still a bit 'all over the place'. Unlike the other railways, Skarloey Railway is prominent in the TV Series, and therefore needs to be handled in the same way as the NWR engines. Hence the Books/TV split is appropriate.

What is less clear is how to handle the Minor characters.

First task is to update the table of locos to show: No., Name (linked), Type (eg wheel arr, as per Talyllyn Railway), 'Real Loco' (2 columns: Name and Railway, since not all are from Talyllyn now), Manuf? (if space permits), and Appears in, which will show 'Books + TV', 'Books only', 'TV Series only', or 'Unfeatured'.

This will leave no room for notes. Instead, below the table will be a section for (all?) the engines, with a quick summary and a link to the 'Main Article'. In the case of any that feature twice, separate links will be provided for TV Series and Railway Series.

Suggest this is done as a user project and copied across, first to the Talk page, rather than attempted 'live'. After the initial table/descriptions are done, it may be possible to see whether any minor (Books-only) characters can be fully moved to the Skarloey Railway page.

Once complete, can consider what to do with the rolling stock entries...

Characters

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Oliver the Western Engine

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  • Add book pic (when Felix uploads it!) - DONE
  • Finish the story of Oliver's escape
  • Add details to story in S.C. Ruffey
    • Ensure redirect works OK!
  • Check and correct links via redirect
  • Check and correct links from elsewhere


Thomas the Tank Engine

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Last edit to Thomas the Tank Engine corrected the link to London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

  • failed to spot that there is a page for the LB&SCR E2 Class which can be linked
  • also link 0-6-0T - although note that 0-6-0 needs a subsection for 0-6-0T to which we can link directly
    • Note that the E2 page has a separate link to side tank shown as 0-6-0T - not sure this is the ideal way to do it, as the T doesn't show up individually as a link - better to have a direct link to side tank or tank engine?
    • tank engine page does not mention the suffixes for Whyte notation, although the latter DOES do this
  • LB&SCR page needs subsection for locos added, to which can add E2 class (and others - eg Adam's Radial?? - is there a list somewhere?)
  • ALERT: E2 class page calls the original illlustrator 'inept' - suggest summarising the info from the TTE page here to explain the discrepancy - poss even add images to show the differences?

Minor Characters (The Railway Series)

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Talyllyn & Dolgoch

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  • Talyllyn does not mention the fantastic picture in The Little Old Engine.
  • Also link to Skarloey and Rheneas
  • Dolgoch (Rheneas' twin) is mentioned in intro to Gallant Old Engine, but without pic
  • Both are mentioned in Very Old Engines, with Tallyllyn part-pictured, and both pictured at back
  • Talyllyn is pictured again, this time at the back of Great Little Engines


Bear (D7101)

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  • 7/7/06: Bear has been edited by User:Thehalford
    • References to books have been removed, and need replacing in a different form.
    • Original text:
      • Although he is an engine of the North Western Railway, he has so far only appeared in the books Enterprising Engines and James and the Diesel Engines
    • Suggest replacing 'As described in the books' with 'As described in Enterprising Engines'
    • Suggest adding later paragraph along these sort of lines: 'When Bear arrived on the North Western Railway, he was painted in British Rail 'Corporate Blue' livery. In James and the Diesel Engines, Bear's new coat of paint is seen to be a close resemblance of the attractive two-tone green livery worn by the Hymeks in the 1960s.
      • (First half of that sentence is OK, but second half is a bit clumsy. Will need some more thought!)

Mavis

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  • Mavis first appeared in Tramway Engines, later appeared in Toby, Trucks and Trouble
  • TV Series entry is comprehensive, but does not link to the Railway Series entry (see above!)
    • Nor does it give prototype information.
  • British Rail Class 04 includes prototype information and faulty x-refs back to TV Series character, etc

'Other Railway' Engines

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  • Under Minor Characters, is it worth creating a new section for the various odd diesels that appear
    • NO - see The Other Railway for a list of BR engines that have appeared in the books. THIS is the place to note appearances of the various diesels, including 31 120, not under Minor Characters (make sure it is X-ref'd)
    • in the same book is a suburban DMU with a Derby-style front
      • Has it's own page, which should be moved in due course! (D10751).
    • Note another (sand coloured) Cl 31 can be seen in Oliver/Stepney (can't remember which book) together with a (maroon) Western and a (green) Class 40
    • In James and the Diesel Engines, James is rescued by a Class 47 sent from The Works (this is mentioned in The Other Railway). Another Cl 47 is seen at Barrow station on the first page of Henry and the Express (its number is not discernible).
    • There is a Cl40 (numbered D4711, but looks like a Deltic! although Deltics were D90xx!!) in Stepney - also appears in TV Series (entry already present)


Thomas and Friends

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  • TBA


Tidmouth

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The fictional borough of Tidmouth is the largest town on the fictional Island of Sodor created by the Rev. W. Awdry as a setting for his Railway Series children's books. The ancient capital of the island is however the "city" of Suddery.

The Town

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The town lies on the estuary of the River Tid and had in 1981 a population of 35,000. It is the island's principal port with extensive docks. It received a Royal Charter confirming borough status in 1918.

Nearby Knapford is a dormitory town of Tidmouth.

Tidmouth is famous for its fishing industry, particularly the delicacy known as the Tidmouth Kipper. There are ferry connections to the Isle of Man and Ireland. In centuries past it was also notorious for smuggling. These days it is also a popular tourist destination. The town's motto is "Industry and Progress".

The Railways and Tidmouth

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Tidmouth is Sodor's largest railway centre and has been the headquarters of the North Western Railway since 1925 when it moved from Vicarstown on the other side of the island. Indeed, the town's coat of arms features a wheel in commemoration of this fact.

Tidmouth Station (or, as it was known in the Railway Series books, "The Big Station") has four terminal roads and one through line, namely the Little Western branch line to Arlesburgh. The Fat Controller's Office is on one of the platforms.

HM Queen Elizabeth II once visited Tidmouth Station and engine sheds.

The first railway to reach Tidmouth was the Tidmouth, Knapford & Elsbridge Light Railway or Tramway in 1905. The NWR built an improved link to Knapford with the construction of the Tidmouth tunnel, in which Henry the Green Engine once met an elephant.

Tidmouth is the western terminus for all main line services on Sodor and is used by some services on Thomas's and Edward's branch lines.

There have been at times direct train services from Tidmouth to London.

Tidmouth Docks have an extensive railway system connecting with the NWR main line. The overnight express freight train to the mainland, The Flying Kipper, is loaded and starts from here.

Close to the railway station are the NWR's main engine sheds, where most of the main line and some of the branch line engines live.

Tidmouth on TV

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On the Children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, the big station on Sodor is Knapford. But Tidmouth is used for the name of the engine sheds where most of the characters in the series live.

In some episodes a station named Lower Tidmouth is shown sometimes as the junction station for Thomas's branch line.

However, in series 2 and 3 a Tidmouth station did appear. This was different from the one in the original books and was a through station with three roads and an over-roof. In Series 2 it appeared to be on Thomas's branch line but in some of the later episodes of series 3, it appeared to be a mainline station.

Sources

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Category:The Railway Series locations Category:Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends locations Category:Fictional populated places in England

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