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He originally worked as the station pilot at the Big Station, but longed to leave his yard to go out and see the world. Details of Thomas' arrival on the North Western Railway in are more or less undocumented, and it is unknown how exactly he showed up. The most popular theory put forward, however, is that he was sent to in a wartime mix-up. His driver and fireman got along well with the local people and married Sudrian girls, and by neither one wanted to leave the Island or their beloved engine. Thomas originally worked as the station pilot at Vicarstownshunting trains for the bigger engines on the main line to take out. He enjoyed teasing the other engines, Gordon most of all, and would quietly sneak up on him and whistle loudly as he dozed on a siding. However, one Thomas & Friends Annual 2016, Gordon managed to Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 back at Thomas by pulling out of the station before he could be uncoupled from his coaches, dragging him down the line at tremendous speeds. Thomas vowed to never tease Gordon again, but made him change. Perhaps as a result of his brief excursion beyond his boundaries, Thomas Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 to see more of a world and become a part of it, and became jealous of the bigger engines for having the opportunity to pull trains. When Henry fell ill one morning, Thomas was allowed to take his morning passenger train when there were no other engines available, much to his delight. However, for reasons unknown, Thomas left the station before he could be coupled to his train, leaving Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 the coaches, the passengers and their luggage. Thomas was not aware of his mistakeuntil he was stopped by a signalman who asked where his train was. Ashamed and humiliated, Thomas returned to the station, this time waiting to be coupled to his coaches, but the incident had made him a laughing stock among the bigger engines. Thomas continued to grumble to the other Thomas & Friends Annual 2016, though they took no notice of him. However, Edward felt sorry for him, and allowed him to take his goods train to Wellsworth while he handled his shunting duties in the yard. Although Edward warned him to be careful around the trucks, Thomas took no notice and bumped the trucks as he started. When they reached Gordon's Hillthe trucks pushed him down the line, causing him to lose control. Thomas raced through Maron station and camewhere he was confronted by . Sometime after this, Thomas was relocated to Wellsworth to learn more about handling trucks. Thomas was present in the yard when James ran out of control with his trucks and derailed in a field outside the station. Thomas fetched the Breakdown Train and Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 to James' aid, and he helped to clean up the broken trucks and bring James back to the shed when he was re-railed. As a reward for his actions, Thomas was given two new coaches, Annie and Clarabeland was given the responsibility of running the Ffarquhar Branch Linemuch to his delight. Thomas loved his branch line dearly, and had many adventures during his first days on the line. He once left his guard behind by accident, and on another occasion he accidentally swallowed a fish in his tank when he took on water from the lake, causing him tremendous pain. During the autumn season, Thomas met Terence and teased him for his caterpillar tracks, though he later came to regret this after he became stuck in the snow and had to be pulled out by him. Thomas later met Bertie Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 was challenged to a race to Ffarquhar. Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 he was behind for most of the race, Thomas managed to overtake Bertie and won. After a compliment by his driver went to his smokebox, Thomas became conceited, believing that he no longer needed his driver to control him. The next morning, Thomas found himself moving on his own after a careless cleaner had meddled with his controls, but he was unable to stop and crashed into the Ffarquhar stationmaster's house. Thomas was sent to the Works to be mended and received some changes to his design, including a new footplate that was now level from smokebox to bunker. When Thomas returned to the branch line, he began looking after the passenger trains with Daisy. Thomas was excited, but the journey to York was shaky; he damaged his front bufferbeam when he hit a crossing gate, and the lorry he was traveling on was booked for parking illegally. Thomas was repaired when he arrived at the Museum and befriended Green Arrow while he was being mended, though he continued to have bad luck when he ran into a bag thrown onto the line and frightened a small child. Fortunately, Thomas managed to make up for his bad luck when, as he was double-heading a railtour with Green Arrow, he noticed the line up ahead was damaged and stopped the train. As a reward for his actions, Thomas was made an honourary member of the National Railway Museum and received a commemorative plaque. Before coming to SodorThomas lived at Brighton, where he worked alongside several other engines. He was brought to the North Western Railway when the Fat Controller was in need of a new tank engine to shunt trains at Knapfordand was Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 painted green before receiving his blue livery. Thomas was cheeky at first, and enjoyed teasing Gordon by Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 him up while he was resting at Knapford. Gordon managed to get back at Thomas by leaving the station too quickly before he could be uncoupled, and though Thomas learned his lesson about teasing Gordon, he wanted to see more of the Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 and go beyond the yard at Knapford station. He was given the chance to pull his first passenger train when Henry became ill, but left the station too early when he mistook the Guard's whistle for Edward 's train for his own, leaving behind his coaches and passengers. Thomas was stopped by a Signalman, and he went back to the station to fetch his train. Thomas was teased relentlessly about this mistake by the other engines, especially Gordon and Jamesthough Edward felt sorry for him and offered to let Thomas take his goods train while he took care of his shunting duties in the yard. Thomas could hardly contain his excitement Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 was too excited to listen to Edward's warning about the trucks, believing that he could handle them easily. However, as he reached the top of Gordon's Hillthe trucks began pushing Thomas down the line, causing him to run out of control and nearly crashed until he stopped in a siding at Maron. As punishment for not doing his work in the yard, the Fat Controller made Thomas shunt in the yard only, giving Edward the same punishment as him. Upon noticing that Henry had not come out of the sheds to pull his train during a rainy day, Thomas raced back to Tidmouth Sheds and managed to convince a paranoid Henry that the rain would not hurt him, finally helping him get over his fear of the rain. Thomas continued to work in the yard, and over time, he became Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 skilled at shunting. While taking a break in the yard one day, Thomas saw James being pushed by his trucks. Thomas bravely chased after James and tried to stop him, but unfortunately James derailed and landed in a field. Thomas rushed back to Knapford and retrieved Judy and Jeromewho helped him re-rail James. As a reward for his heroic actions, Thomas was rewarded with his own branch line and two coaches of his own, Annie and Clarabel. From that point on, Thomas began proudly working on his branch line. Thomas is described as being a cheeky, fussy engine. He often gets into scrapes, usually by being over eager to do things best left to bigger and more sensible engines. But clouds never last long in Thomas' life, and he's soon bustling about Thomas & Friends Annual 2016, playing his part in the yard and on his very own branch line, of which he is extremely proud. He loves teasing the others, especially the bigger engines, such as Gordon, and on occasion brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone willing to correct him, especially the Fat Controller, and his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful and rather impatient. However, he is also optimistic, idealistic, and altruistic, and has a heart of gold. He lives to be a Really Useful Engine and encourages everyone else to do the same. These engines were built by Brighton Works between to replace the aging Stroudley E1 class, and were primarily used for heavy shunting and short-distance freight trains in the London area and on the south coast. During their final working years, the E2 class worked as shunting engines at Southampton Docks, until they were replaced by the BR Class 07 diesel shunters. All of the E2s have been scrapped, with none surviving to preservation. Thomas has several major differences from the original E2 class. He is much shorter in length than his original basis, he has two Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 windows on the sides of his cab, and he has wheel splashers, something the E2 class lacked. Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 early volumes of and the television series, Thomas' footplate is dipped at the front, but oddly enough is not dipped at the back. In Branch Line Engineshis footplate was leveled out from smokebox to bunker. Thomas is painted in the North Western Railway's sky blue livery with red lining. His number is painted on the sides of his tanks in yellow Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 red lining, and the lining around his cab windows is yellow. In The Adventure BeginsThomas was originally painted teal-green with white lining. He had the initials "LBSC" and the number 70 painted on the sides of his tanks and cab respectively in yellow with red lining, and his wheel rims were white. In the first three seasons of the television series, Thomas had red lining on the back of his coal bunker, but during production of All at Seathe lining was removed for unknown reasons. The lining was later re-added to him in The Adventure Begins. No Problem! 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This page is best viewed in Monobook because of the wide content it contains. To view this page in Monobook, please click here. Although this page is best viewed in Monobook, to return to Oasis, please click here. Welcome to the Thomas mini wiki at Scratchpad! These books follow the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. The books were based on stories Wilbert told to entertain his son, Christopher, during his recovery from measles. The series is animated using live-action models, seen at the time of first Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 as the most effective way of realising the stories without the cost and expense of conventional animation. The locomotives and other vehicles move, but people and animals are generally static. Stop-motion is generally used for instances in which a human or animal character is seen to move. In recent seasons, CGI has been used to generate smoke and other effects. The use of a narrator removes the need to make characters' mouths move when they speak. However, their eyes do move by use of remote controlled mechanisms. The characters' faces are sculpted from foam rubber. Each character has several different faces to convey different emotions. The models were initially built to a scale of 10 millimetres to the foot. They used chassis made by Marklin with specially made bodies. As well as the eye mechanisms, these bodies also include smoke generators. Coaches and trucks were made using Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 kits. Models were later constructed entirely from scratch. From Season 5 onwards, some larger scale models were used for the Skarloey Railway characters, in order to make it easier to fit the complex mechanisms into them while retaining a sufficient level of detail. In Season 6, the characters known as "the Pack" were also constructed to a large scale, Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 large models of Thomas and Percy were made to interact with them. Beginning with the ninth season, the Thomas model also interacted with the narrow gauge engines. It was joined by a large version of James in the tenth season. For the first two seasons the series was closely based on stories from the Railway Series. The first season took stories from the first eight books, along with one specially written by the Rev. Awdry, Thomas's Christmas Party. This last book was unusual, in that it was Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 specifically by in order to be adapted for the series, Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 a contractual obligation of the series at that time was that it could not create original stories that had not previously appeared in print. The series also adapted a story from a Thomas Annual, 'Thomas and Trevor', and an especially written stand-alone story, Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree. Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 were two primary reasons for diverging from the original books. The first was that many of the books not yet adapted featured large numbers of new characters, and so would be expensive to produce. The second was that the producers wanted more stories centering on Thomas, the nominal main character. The Rev. Awdry complained that the new stories were unrealistic and not true to the spirit of the books. For the fourth season, the producers planned to introduce some "new" female characters, including Caroline the car, Nancy the guard's daughter and The Refreshment Lady. Some commentators took this as a response to a number of accusations of sexism that had been levelled against the series two years earlier. In reality, they were not "new" characters, but creations of the Rev. Awdry, borrowed from The Railway Series. Season 4 was almost entirely based on the Railway Series, the last season so to do. The narrow gauge engines were introduced, greatly increasing the number of stories that could be produced. Only one original story was used, namely 'Rusty to the Rescue', but this took certain elements of plot and dialogue from the book Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine. The fifth season was a radical Thomas & Friends Annual 2016, as it was entirely original. This season saw the introduction of new characters and more action-packed storylines. Following this season, the film ' Thomas and the Magic Railroad ' was released. It featured only a small number of Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 from the television series and was rather more fantasy based. Despite high production values and the popularity of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, the movie was criticised for being confusing, badly written, poorly directed, poorly acted and not true to the spirit of either the Railway Series or the television adaptation by UK audiences. New episodes that had been written by and director David Mitton were from then on scripted by hired-in writers. The sixth and seventh seasons continued the policy of action-packed storylines and new characters. The sixth season was notable for its attempt to create a spin- off series. In this sixth season, two episodes were produced centering around a group of new characters known as 'The Pack'. These were construction machines, and it has been speculated that this was an attempt to cash in on the success of Bob the Builder. The spin-off never materialised, and as the models of the Pack were incompatible with the other characters in the series, they have not been seen in the series since. However, they have recently appeared in a straight-to-video spin-off release called On Site with Thomas. Following Season 8, a number of significant changes took place. The series was taken over Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 HIT Entertainment. Episode length was increased from four and a half to seven minutes, and a new theme tune was composed. Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 complaints from parent action groups concerning the number of accidents in the series, the stories' emphasis was moved from action to character, with episodes generally focusing upon morals. Shortly before the release of Series 9, a straight-to-video film, ' Calling All Engines ', was released. This featured characters from 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad', but was not a sequel as such. It received a far better reception than the earlier film, and HIT are thought to be considering the possibility of similar specials in the future. Series 9 and 10 featured the introductions of new characters, as well as returns of several older ones. The show format generally remained the same as Series 8. Season 10, which aired inbecame the first season to ever feature 28 episodes, as opposed to the standard 26 episodes per season. The 20th season had a new computer-CGI style that was realistic, which is used in most professional films. The 20th season included 28 episodes. This change also marked the first time that a railway series character that had never been seen in the Television Series before appeared for the first time. The characters were Mike, Rex and Bert. The 21st season in was the shortest so far, having just 18 stories. Bulgy the bus appeared in this season for the first time since season 12 in Toby was also quietly dropped, and the narrator was replaced with Thomas in a first person perspective. Season 23 was once again, split into two halves: One half with Thomas travelling around the world, and one half taking place on the Island of Sodor. Along with more episodes set in the previously visited China, India and Australia, Thomas also visited two new countries, Italy and Brazil. It was shown throughout the late eighties and into the early 90s when it was taken off the terrestrial UK network following broadcast of the third series. Between andThomas was never shown on terrestrial UK networks, although it did make a comeback Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 satellite through Cartoon Network inairing the first 5 seasons untiland then on Nick Jr inwhere it has remained since and become a popular fixture, even stretching to their involvement with Gullane and HIT Entertainment on recent series of the popular children's series. The sixth and seventh series were shown in Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 entirety in and The eighth series was broadcast inThomas & Friends Annual 2016 only 13 episodes were aired, possibly on account of the new format for the programme; it wasn't until July that the remaining 13 episodes were broadcast. Due to a new agreement between ITV and the Programming Authority which allowed them to cut their children's TV output in midFive bought the rights to the series. The ninth series began showing on 10 Octoberfollowed one month later on 10 November by the tenth. The channel now shows series in rotation. Inthe season 1 episodes finally aired on US TV by themselves. Today, Thomas and Friends is broadcast in more than twenty languages around the world. In Thomas moved to the big screen, with the release of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. However, the film was not a success. Despite this, Thomas' popularity soared to heights never seen before. The Thomas and Friends stories were four and a half minutes long. The first two series showed two episodes at a time, with a show of the characters in the middle. It changed to one at a time in series three. In each series until series eight, the number of trains on the railway increases as Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 railway expands. Inthe series began using computer animated special effects and the story length changed from five to seven minutes. The new series made major changes, such as changing the famous theme tune, and took on a more moralistic stance than previous series. Starting with Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 10, only two episodes aired, with the middle story being replaced with Places around Sodora recurring mini-story which features major locations and recaps episodes from Seasons that take place at the location. Since Season 13 inthe show has been fully animated in CGI with the engines obtaining their own voices. The most Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 and wide-ranging items of merchandise are the models of the characters, which have been produced in many Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 ranges, some including accompanying railway systems. Other popular products include videos, books and magazines, and computer games. However, 'Thomas' merchandise has also included such diverse items as: audiobooks, annuals, colouring and activity books, jigsaws, board games, Thomas & Friends Annual 2016, clothing, cutlery, household items such as curtains, duvet covers and lampshades, and even soft drinks and spaghetti shapes. The Thomas engine visits various historic railroads across the United States allowing visitors to play games, meet Sir Topham Hatt and to ride Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 a passenger car pulled by the engine. But, do NOT delete any. Complete parodies list. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Thomas | Thomas & Friends Fanfic Wiki | Fandom

They were hard-covered with colour pictures and photos throughout the book. The annuals also featured a number of exclusive characters. The and annuals did not contain any new material by the Rev. Awdrybut did have articles about real railways and railway terminology. The annuals published between had stories written by Christopher Awdry. Starting inthe stories were adapted from episodes of the television series. From this annual and onwards, Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 stories are not written by the Awdry's. Oddly, in this annual, the narrow gauge engines are depicted as being the same size as the standard gauge engines. Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 is the first annual to have CGI pictures. However, it contains stories from the eleventh series ; also, it has "Hide and Peep" printed twice. It was released on 1st Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 It contains 48 pages with two stories from the twelfth seriesactivities and stickers. It was released on Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 August It has 72 pages with stories from the thirteenth series and various activities. This annual was written by Pippa Shaw. The Holiday Annual was released on 4th April although it was actually available to purchase at least Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 week before. It has 96 pages with stories from the thirteenth series and various activities. The annual was released on 1st August and has seventy-two pages with stories from the thirteenth series and various activities. The Holiday Annual was released on 3rd March and has sixty-four pages. It includes a story with many activities and stickers. The annual was released on 6th August and is seventy-two pages long, with Thomas & Friends Annual 2016 from the twelfth and thirteenth series. The holiday annual was released on 4th Marchis sixty-four pages long and is written by Beth Harwood. It contains following stories:. The annual was released on 5th August and is seventy-two pages long. It contains the following stories:. The annual was released on 31st Julyhas seventy-two pages and was written by Emily Stead. The annual was released on 30th Julyhas seventy- two pages and was written by Mara Alperin. The annual was published on 28th July containing seventy-two pages and was written by Brenda Apsley. The annual was published in July and has seventy-two pages. It was written by Mara Alperin. The annual was published on 9th August It was written by Laura Jackson and contains the following stories:. It has seventy-two pages. It includes the following stories:. The annual was published on 6th August and has seventy-two pages. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Main Page. Categories :. Universal Conquest Wiki.