Thomas the Tank Engine

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Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Almost all of Thomas' adventures take place on the island of Sodor.

This article is about the fictional tank engine, for the television series, see Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic locomotive featured on the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and its American spinoff Shining Time Station, and earlier in books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry. In one episode he was described as follows:

• "Thomas is a tank engine who lives at a big station of the Island of Sodor. He's a cheeky little engine with 6 small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler and a short stumpy dome." -Narrator Ringo Starr from the episode "Thomas & Gordon"

He's locomotive number 1 on the Sodor Railways. He is the star of the television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Thomas the tank engine first appeared in the 1940s, when stories about him were published in The Railway Series by Reverend W.V. Awdry. Now he is the most well known fictional locomotive in the world.

Eddie Glen provided the voice of Thomas in the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Adventures of Thomas

Thomas and Gordon was the first episode of the television series and features a cheeky tank engine known as Thomas. He teases Gordon the Big Engine for being too slow and lazy. Gordon plots his revenge on Thomas. On a morning when Thomas is very sleepy, Gordon takes revenge by starting the Express Train before Thomas is uncoupled. Thomas is forced to go the journey at high speed and at the end of the line Gordon laughs. Thomas is faced with a long slow ride home for his foolishness.

Further adventures with Thomas cause him to:

• Have trouble with trucks
• Rescue James the Red Engine
• Get fish in his boiler
• Get stuck in snowdrifts
• Race with Bertie the Bus Photo
• Fall down a mine
• Rescue Mrs Kyndley
• Go on a runaway
• Get covered in coal
• "Go to breakfast" at the stationmaster's house
• Get scared by a "Ghost"
• Get caught in a snowdrift again while bringing the christmas tree.
• Help with the post train
• Get "bumped"
• Meet the "bluebell" engine, Stepney
• Go faster than Gordon the Big Engine, with the help of a jet engine
• He meets Neville the New Engine, Molly the Yellow Engine, Mighty Mac the Double-Ended Fairlie and Dennis the Lazy Diesel
• Help deliver items to the ice cream factory instead of taking children to the beach
• Delivering the Circus all around the Island of Sodor
• Found Elizabeth the Sentinel Lorry in an old shed that she stayed for years
• Go around the difficult bend by himself
• Take Mrs. Hatt's dog to the Docks (A-woof-woof)
• Get scared by Diesel 10

Other Information

• Thomas has 2 coaches Annie and Clarabel and his own branch line.
• The Fat Controller calls him a "Really useful engine"
• Thomas hates his snowplough and snow
• Thomas loves taking children around Sodor
• Thomas hates fish

• Thomas loves being called a 'really useful engine'.
• Thomas arrived on Sodor on a loan from a railway in the South of England

External links

• The "real" Thomas London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E2 class locomotive
• Thomas the Tank Engine .com Official website