I find it ironic how the difference between the RWS and TVS goes: Children wanted more Thomas and the main cast and never new engines in the RWS, but then the tables got turned around when they wanted to see more new engines that appear in every season of the show.
Tbf it’s because the TV series thomas LARGELY abandoned all the traits that made everyone like him in the first place after a few seasons. The railway series doesn’t even mention Thomas but he was so popular these show decided to name itself after him
This is all interesting book ideas, especially Little Blue Engines. Given how much lore and history Wilbert Awdry put into the Island of Sodor and its railways, plus having real-life history added in along with it, it’s surprising stuff like the Peel Godred Electric Engines, the NWR’s construction and stories taking place on all the Light Railways before they were all connected to form the NWR, were never made into stories in any books. Most of this is either up to the readers’ imagination on what happened or fans have written their own stories already. That’s the beauty of The Railway Series: the lore is ever-expanding and connects with real-life events in history, that the ideas for stories are endless. They could literally last until the end of time.
Wow, simply incredible! It is honestly a shame Christopher Awdry didn't get to do those concepts because the publishers wanted more of Thomas, but hey, we all know now. I definitely would've loved Barry the Rescue Engine as well as books about Peel Godred, the Mid-Sodor engines, the Austerity engine, Neil and the mountain engines in the present day. Your idea of Thomas and Edward working together on Sodor before the first ever book is also very interesting.
I'd say publishing those 4 or 5 books Christopher wrote and those small ideas mentioned in the IOS book would be perfect for anniversaries. I do hope Mattel would honour The Railway Series more in the future.
I actually wrote a book very similar to the Culdee Fell one you mentioned where the railway gets two diesels, and it also includes a story where Alaric becomes a runaway and almost ends up like Godred, I can't find the source now, but I remember reading a few years ago that his real life counterpart, Ralph, almost fell off the mountain after losing grip with the rack.
The more I learn about RWS stories that could've been, the more I wish we could've gotten them. Cause they would've been much better than what we have now.
This was an amazing video Adam. While there have been people that have explored a few of these things the most prominent person I can think of is TheBuriedTruck. But the railway series did leave a lot to be desired when it comes to these topics that we're very glossed over. If there were any books I would add to this I would love to see a book about the Diesel engines on the Arsdale railway more about Frank and getting to see Sigrid of Arlesdale and the Blister twins. What life is like on the skarloey railway is after the building of Ivo Hugh. Or getting more insight on the funicular railway that was built in 1985. Keep up the good work man can't wait to see more videos.
I feel a bit sad that Barry the rescue engine will never see the light of day. We never got any illustrations of him, he turned out to be a tank engine instead of a tank engine, and we don’t know anything about his story or personality.
I just want to point out my OWN thoughts about some of these book ideas: 1. Barry the Rescue Engine. I like to think that Barry becomes the station pilot, however I also think that he would also be the engine in charge of pulling the breakdown train, which would explain why he would be called The Rescue Engine. 2. Wellsworth & Suddery Engines. You should check out The Buried Truck's stories about them. 3. Coffee Pot Engines. You forgot to mention Glynn from the CGI series because he's the surviving Coffee Pot Engine in the Thomas Canon.
If we talking about Barry…he’s my thing…. RWS headcanon: Barry is suffering from trauma and has panic attacks whenever he sees a diesel. Luckily Douglas and Oliver being scrap refugees themselves are able to help him with his anxiety and overtime Barry becomes friends with Bear and Boco, and maybe be painted red TVs/RWS hybrid: Arthur and Barry exist as two different engines, they are brothers who never met and just like the RWS headcanon, it’s basically somewhat the same. Arthur and Barry have different opinions on scenery, since Arthur likes the Norramby branch since it’s a different kind of scenery but Barry would rather the countryside (since they are both midland engines). Barry would be painted maroon like Arthur, only different being he would have no logo on his side tanks…but to this day, sometimes engines who don’t pay attention will believe one is the other by mistake lol
I always wonder what the characters would have been like in the books. The buried Truck made fanmade Bloomer and W&S engines books. Barry is the book character everyone would want to see as well as The Mystery Austerity. The Peel Godred is one that would be nice to see. 7:45 waited for the laugh
When I studied childcare one of our tasks was to write our own book. I wrote and still have the a RWS book featuring the Skarloey Railway. Stories included Duncan getting covered in chocolate during an egg hunt along the railway, Peter Sam getting over a fear of sheep and the discovery of a new narrow-gauge diesel engine. I feel the series could have gone in a vastly different direction if Thomas hadn't been pushed to the fore through the TV series. I'd gladly read those books, and I really should give Chris's books another try as I've only read 1 or 2 and didn't like the change in style from his father.
I like Barry being repainted in LMS colors. besides the parallel to Arthur, the island's GWR engines are painted in their home railway's colors. And the most fun part to me is that the LMS used to have an extended route down to Norramby. Who knows? Maybe Barry himself ran the line until getting pulled out by BR. Even if he didn't I still feel the livery would be fitting.
Imagine if one day Richard Awdry started publishing RWS books, the fandom would lose their minds! Personally I'd love to see more stories about Sodor in moderrn day, maybe have other engines dealing with their age and either pushing through or accepting retirement.
@@fanofeverything30465 Me too, provided Mattel (or any company in the future) gives him full reign of the books and what he puts into them (or at least 75 to 80% of control), I’m sure he’d make an amazing successor to the role of Railway Series author.
I honestly have an Idea in co-realation with the TVs and RWs about Atlas & Alfred; (Though, mostly Atlas) I like to think that both engines were bought along side Stanley (since the three of them are American), and out of the three, Atlas is the most well behaved. But due to the lack of spare parts that could sooth him, he was unfortunatly left in a siding near the mines till the day the MSR was closed; But a few years later, he would eventualy be re-discovered by Toby (thus, making him the RWs equivalent of Bertram), and soon after, he would reunite with Duke, Peter Sam & Sir Handel. And re-tell the good-old days of the Mid-Sodor. Nice video by the way mate (: D)
Actually I think the rumor was Barry being a Standard 2, not an Ivatt. Another thing I'd go for is remasters of the older books (or even just illustrations) with some of these details - the Peel Godred branch opened at the time of book 1 - if it had electrics back then, they would've been different from the 86 and 87s. The sheds rebuild and appear in older book Sir Charles being promoted after the queen visited, Some batch of stories set in the 70s How the W&Ss and Coffee pots interacted or plus the 6 from the first book. New Tidmouth pilot after Duck,
Good video, I hope someone makes these lost stories, in fact I am one of those people who is doing the Little Blue Engines book but not knowing that it was originally planned by Awdry. Literally everything you said about this is what I'm writing, showing what the beginnings of Thomas and Edward's relationship are like, that those two big bully blue engines are the ones from Edward's Day Off and how they would later be sent away from There, I was really excited and surprised that I was doing such a thing. Now I am forced to do it in the best way.
Reverend W. Audrey built a model of an austarity locomotive, it was named warrington. A common theory is that Warrington is the austarity that was purchased after the after Wilbert's visit. I think Warrington would just be a spare locomotive that that would do whatever needed to be done, since Austarities are versatile.
The model as-bought was green, so it's possible it was supposed to eventually be converted into Wilbert, who was named after him. Warrington itself is also preserved so unless you wanna pull a TVS Stepney, ehhh
@@firstnamlastnam2141 yeah no warrington is allready preserved theres no chance wilbert would make him the austerity willbert never puts real preserved engines on th nwr, i personaly think sixteen being saved and not scrapped was a hint that he was coming to sodor
@@the_birb23 Right? Him being saved and never being given a specific location feels too intentional for him to NOT be the austerity engine. But whether he mellowed out of not afterward, who knows? Chris probably, but that's it.
I think we should have gotten more Stories, or even a full book about BoCo & Bear titled: The Green Diesel Friends maybe the Stories could be called: 1. Bear & BoCo Maybe they would meet or talk with each other for the first ever. And they get to know each other. Maybe this is were we get infos on where Bear worked before he arrived. 2. Failures This would be where we get some interesting History on the 2 Diesels, more specifically, why BoCo & perhaps even Bear (& D199) & their class were failures. 3. Trust between the 2. This Story could be about James, who still doesn't like Diesel, as this book might take place in the late 70s or 80s, and pranks the 2, telling Bear lies that BoCo off course did not say, and then the same with Bear telling lies about BoCo. I hppe you get it. And then, since we see them trusting each other in the first 2 Stories, they would find James out. 4. Friendships This is infact a part 2 to the 3rd Story. BoCo & Bear, who became very good friends, finally wanted to pay James out, and they did. They in Secret invited the Fat Controller, who after a bit aggred. Then they tell James that his Loco-Passenger Run to Brendam was cancelled, and that he has to bring empty Trucks to Brendam Harbour instead. However, BoCo was coppled at the back, which he uses to brake James down, so that he would arrive very late at Brendam Harbour. Bill & Ben then would be confused on too why he brought Trucks, sibce they don't need them. And them, we would see Bear with James' Original Loco-Passenger Run arriving at Brendam. Then James, Boco & Bear were not completely friends, however James' Arrogant's against Diesel's would go down after this one. I hope you enjoy these ones, i made a bit up right know, but i actually had an idea like this in mind for a goid bit now. Enjoyed your Video a lot. See you soon with another banger Video probably.
A book I would've liked to see is "LNER Engines". A book where we see Gordon before arriving to Sodor and we see how Gordon got so pompous. Maybe we'd even see Flying Scotsman as an LNER A1 instead of an A3
Another good idea for the Mid Sodor Engines is the MSR reopening, like the real life Corris Railway did. The Extended Railway Series actually did just that. It's something that no one besides me and the ERS has done.
Dudley should have been in the Railway Series. He is a perfect steam engine antagonist and brought us more insight into Bear. I think I should make a video about Dudley.
A book/collection of books I'd have liked to have seen (that ironically has little to do with Sodor: Bluebell Engines. Considering Stepeny gave his five fellow Bluebells names and some characteristics it would have been really interesting to have had stories with them. Additionally if it was written in the 1980s and 1990s then there would be plenty of other Bluebells, each with a story to tell, to introduce.
Diesel's real life basis 13236 visited the Bluebell Railway in 2008-14. I think the steam engines would be hostile to him as he was their railway's first diesel...
Here's an idea for a book: Diesel the Devious Engine. This book covers Diesel's time on the Other Railway after the events of Duck and the Diesel Engine. We see how Diesel's life has taken a bad turn after he left Sodor and how even the managers don't trust him, especially after the book was published. We then see a flash forward to when the Class 08s were being withdrawn and Diesel goes through a similar situation to what happened with Duck back in '57. However instead of being sad or upset about being sent away, Diesel just takes it all in stride. Halfway through the book, we see how Diesel's owner is struggling to keep him in working order and maintain his business. This part takes place during the events of Thomas and the Great Railway Show and when Thomas hears about this, he promises Diesel that he'll inform The Fat Controller about it, which he does during the end of the story. The last chapter sees Diesel being purchased by the North Western Railway and performing odd jobs until he's settled in. Although Duck and the big engines don't trust him at first, Thomas, Toby, Annie and Clarabel put in a good word for Diesel and tell them what happened during Diesel's last visit. The big engines are surprised but Duck still doesn't believe it. That changes when Duck breaks down and Diesel is the only engine available to help. Duck waits for the teasing, but Diesel doesn't. He just focuses in getting the passengers home. The book ends with Diesel becoming the station pilot at Tidmouth, a much happier and wiser engine. I feel this book would've been a good way to explore Diesel's character a bit more in the series. What do you guys think?
I like to think that the wellsworth and suddery engines were the following: engine number 1 harry, number 2 boris and number 3 shane. And that they still work on the wellsworth branchline
here’s some tvs stories but in rws style. emily the stirling single. barges and queens = james and the queen of sodors. emily = emily’s new coaches. back on the roads = bulgy rides again poor henry = what’s the matter with henry? useful little engines: the magic lamp = the magic lamp. duncan gets spooked = duncan gets spooked. mobile refreshments = the refreshment ladies stand. the grand opening = the grand opening.
42: The Austerity Engine (1999) 43: Bloomer the Old Engine (2000) 44: Little Blue Engines (2001) 45: Wellsworth and Suddery Engines (2002) 46: Neil the Ugly Engine (2003) 47: Barry the Rescue Engine (2004) 48: Peel Godred Engines (2006) 49: Coffee Pot Engines (2007) 50: Mid-Sodor Engines (2008) 51: More About Mountain Engines (2009) 52: Thomas and His Friends (2010)
5:05 Charlie shares his name with Edward's driver who is also called Charlie. Also at 2:01 I made up a female engine with that basis called Bonnie who is from Scotland like Donald and Douglas and she is painted ruddy blue with while lining and silver buffers along with a silver railway logo on each side of her tender. This is due to the lack of female locomotives.
I think little blue engines could've shown Thomas starting to get respect for Edward and feel bad for him being left In the shed and how Gordon treated Edward couldve been why Thomas became so cheeky and not like Gordon Edward was like a role model to Thomas while they were building the main line and maybe showing Thomas standing up for Edward which would show Thomas having a side to him that wasn't really seen during this time.
I'm working on a Railway Series book centred on the Norramby branch and the 2 diesel units that work there. Here's the first story: Vikings! Derby and Matlock are two of a kind. They were built for trial service on the Other Railway. Now they run on the Norramby branch, between Sodor and the mainland. One morning, Derby was waiting to leave Barrow when he noticed some very unusual looking people on the platform. They had large backpacks and wooden chests. I wonder who they are, he thought. The signal turned green and Derby left the station. He crossed the Vicarstown Bridge onto the Island of Sodor. When he reached the passing station at Ballahoo, Derby met Matlock coming the other way. “Hey up Matlock,” he said, “I picked up some strange looking people at Barrow. They look different from the usual holidaymakers.” “I say Derby,” Matlock replied, “There’s a strange looking boat at the marina. It’s got a big red and white striped sail and a dragon’s head at the front - I’ve never seen anything like it!” Derby kept thinking about it as he made his way towards Norramby. As he rounded the curve and approached the marina, he saw it! Nothing had prepared him! “Wow!” he breathed. It looked amazing! When Derby arrived at Norramby, he met Hubert the Hovercraft. “Hallo there,” Hubert said, “Are you alright??? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” “I’VE SEEN A DRAGON!” Derby exclaimed. He told Hubert about the strange and fierce looking ship. He knew what it was! “That sounds like a Viking longship,” Hubert replied, “When I was first built I ran the cross Channel hovercraft; there’s a Viking ship near the old Ramsgate Hoverport. They sailed here from Denmark without an engine, just as the Vikings did all those years ago. My captain says it’s still there.” “It’s got a tall mast and a big sail,” Derby observed, “They’d have to lift the bridge to get in and out of the marina!” Hubert laughed. “They had to lower the mast to go under the bridge,” he said, “It’s sailed from the Isle of Man for the Norramby Viking Festival.” “What’s a Viking Festival?” Derby asked. “It’s a living history event where people dress up and live like the Vikings for the weekend. They do their cooking, crafts and fighting displays; lots of people come to see them.” “Are those people I brought up from Barrow taking part?” “It looks like it,” Hubert finished, “See you later.” Derby’s driver changed ends and they set off back to the mainland. He saw the Viking ship again as he passed the marina. Now he knew what it was, it didn’t look scary! Derby & Matlock are BR Class 151 units; the only 2 built: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_151 In real life, both were scrapped. During their trial service they ran on the Derby - Matlock line (where their names come from). During their time on the mainland they met BoCo's brother CoBo (D5705) in storage in the old Matlock goods shed. The book will feature BoCo & CoBo.
I like to think that barry was still an ivat tank when rescued but after extsenive overhauls he was rebuilt as an ivat tender engine, so he can keep his iconic look
I think you have something very good with "Little Blue Engines" there! I like the idea of the last book Wilbert Awdry would write and publish would go all the way back to just before the beginning of "Three Railway Engines."
I'd personally have kept Alaric and Eric in service. I'd like excluding yours: *Aluminum Engines* - Stuart and Falcon's between MS and SKD *Steelworks Diesels* - Incorperating Arry and Bert *Sodor Roadways* - Giving spotlight to Caroline, George, Algy/Bertie ans Trevor/Terence. Maybe incoperate Butch *Duck and the Bluebell Engines* - Duck and Stepney reunion where Duck Helps out on Stepney's line and we meet the others properly *Engines and the Storm* - A terrible storm his Sodor as we have a story from various lines seeing how they cope. One NWR, One CFR, One SKR and One AR. I'd probably give the NWR story to focus on the Peel Godred line with James and Bear helping out *North Western Diesels* - Giving Bear and BoCo spotlight stories. *Oliver & The Diesels* - Focusing on Oliver's encounters with The Diesels on Sodor and PTSD around them and him overcoming it. *Arlesdale Diesels* - Frank, Sigrid and the Blisters get focus here. *Fred the Lazy Diesel Engine* - Since he never appeared lets give him a book too and also include Ivo Hugh as he didn't get a speaking Line. *The Sodor Transport Museum* - A Coffee Pot is found and Neil returns and are exhibits as is Caroline. *Reformed Engine* - Instead if youe Austerity Story. Mine includes Sixteen being the one that was brought to Sodor. After discovering he is Sixteen, the other engines are wary and Sixteen is determined to prove himself to them all he is a reforned engine *Twin Engines* - Bill is sent away for repairs after an Accident and Ben struggles without his twin and BoCo and Edward (Charlie too following yours) support him. Ben eventually learns he can work independently when he needs too. *Works Engines* - Victor and Kevin incoperater here. The Works Diesel (Jeff from fan series) gets some spotlight. Victor is brought in to help when it comes to the SKR. *Dockyard Engines* - Incorperating Salty and Cranky but the Docks is Tidmouth as that is the larger station here and on the mainline. *Kirk Ronan Engines* - Introducing New Engines for the Kirk Ronan line when it reopens. Mayge 1 story introducing the cement works and Fergus. *Unique Engines* - Harvey is brought from a Hertidge line who can't afford his repairs anymore. He, Daisy, Toby and Percy get spotlight stories. *Grudgeful Engines* - Diesel returns and even after saving Clarabel in Thomas and the Evil Diesel still has to make things up with Duck and the Mainline trio. Oliver, Donald, Douglas also refuse to acceot Diesel and Thomas, Annie and Clarabel have to fix the tension. Given the TVS popularity, If a character could work I think working them into the RWS would be nice. Some like Emily , Lady and Diesel 10 though I don't think could work but the Diesels easily could
Here are some facinating concepts for RWS books. All of them would surely work well. I must confess that I've considered writing some of these books before myself... Exapmles: Mid Sodor Engines, The Austerity Engine, Cofee Pot Engines, Wellsworth & Suddery Engines etc. Wich are all fun ideas. Personally, i would name the book about Neil: "The Sodor & Mainland Engines", however "Neil the ugly engine" work very well too! The fact that Christopher's books had potential but were never given a chance to fully realise it is terrible, shameful is what it is. PS: Little Blue Engines....................YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Little blue engines should be a real book to put the final nail in the coffin for the RWS as a 43rd book for Christopher to rival AEG and final put the books to a slow end. To have one final piece of good Thomas again. to end it, where it started…
I would have liked a book about the time where the final director before Sir Richard Topham came on the scene explains how Sodor was before the days of the Topham century. From Little Old Engines we know that before Richard Topham Sodor was managed differently and Skarloey says it wasn't very well managed.
Would have LOVED a book on the electric engines. Asides from adding to the lore, there could have been characters based off of older British electric locos (class 86 & 87) and multiple units (class 302, 307, and 310).
A book I would kind of like is a book about Sodor's diesel engines, focusing more on bear and Boco (maybe focusing on how bear adjusted to the island?). Here are a few name ideas: Mainline Diesels Bear the Diesel engine
My ideal missing RWS that either Wilbert or Christopher would've written would be these: 1. Little Blue Engines. You explained your idea for this book in here, so I won't discuss what that book would've likely been about. 2. Addison, the Other Red Engine. This book would basically be about that random engine seen trying to push Henry out of the tunnel. She would be based on an LBSCR K class (the only reason why she looks like James during Dalby's tenure is because Dalby didn't really give a flying toss about engine consistency). The first three, maybe two, stories would be Addison's life going into Sodor (when she was on loan to help with the NWR's locomotive crisis), but later get sent away (not because she was naughty or anything, her character would basically be polite yet very strict, taking no nonsense for bullying or laziness) because the Southern Railway wanted her back. The final story of this book would be Topham Hatt travelling to Hove railway station in 1962 and purchasing Addison for the Northwestern Railway again. She's repainted into the same red livery as James, but her red is slightly darker than Mr. Somebody Has to Be the Favorite. 3. Bloomer, the Old/Vintage Engine (the title depends on your taste). You explained your idea for this book in here, so I won't discuss what that book would've likely been about. 4. Barry, the Rescue Engine. I think that your idea for the book is a great idea, but my spin on it is when Barry gets the role of "rescue engine" the position gets to his smokebox, and it results in an accident that ruins his "spotless record" he keeps up with, but he is later redeemed when someone needs rescuing, and he is renamed Arthur (fittingly by Henry, since his new shape was of the design of William Arthur Stanier, and Arthur was the one who rescued). 5. Tapasya, the Austerity Engine. This would be that follow up book to Wilbert's book, where Topham has finally purchased an Austerity 0-6-0ST. Tapasya is basically a combination of Thomas and Duck's personalities (where she's both cheeky but mature) and after a while, proves herself and becomes the official station pilot engine for Tidmouth. She's also allowed to pull trains on both the Ffarquhar Branch Line and the "Little Western" when needed. If anyone else finds this comment, share your ideas for them!
a story about bloomer, and the wellsworth and suddery (especially when the wellsworth and suddery merged with that other railway i forget the name of) would be awesome, and bloomer would be a cool sorta mystery book
This is really good some other book ideas could be ones like an entire book dedicated to a new branchline maybe Duck getting his own book and many others
I think for Barry's book, there should be a story where he meets Thomas. Here's the synopsis: Thomas is tasked with taking a special train due to his popularity on TV and the children all think Thomas can do it himself. The little blue engine doesn't want to disappoint them so he refuses help until he breaks down on Gordon's Hill and The Fat Controller sends Barry to rescue the train. Upon arrival, some of the passengers inquire about Barry, as they hadn't seen him in a book before. (NOTE: this would've taken place shortly after Barry's restoration.) So while they wait for a replacement engine, Thomas thanks Barry for his help. Barry then begins telling Thomas and the passengers about his time on the Other Railway as the story ends. What do you guys think?
I have been making my own Thomas timeline a bit loosely the same way NWR1991 did, but it's rather my own head canon as to how events would occur mostly on Sodor. And to take your notes from this video, Adam. I see potential into writing stories from those missing Railway Series books and write some of them on how they would fit into my own head canon Thomas lore. It's on my DeviantArt and I only have made Parts 1, 2, and 3. No sign of Part 4 yet (and people in the comments, do not ask me when I'll get to it). The following missing books you mentioned I'm going to think of writing some stories will be as follows: 1. "Barry the Rescue Engine" - Same as your interpretation, but in my own take, Arthur reunites with him. 2. "Bloomer the Old Scottish Engine" - Two stories set in the days when Bloomer used to work on Thomas' branch line in the days of the coffee pot engines running the line before all of them were sold off for scrap (except Glynn). Thomas and his branch line friends give Bloomer a warm welcome as Bloomer comes back to Sodor to celebrate 150 years ever since the Stockton and Darlington Railway was founded, but is sad because he is rarely seen by the public due to his older age beyond this point. Out of sympathy, the branch line engines come and visit Bloomer whenever they are there for him. There would be a story where James is jealous of him because he thinks Bloomer is not as grand of a red engine as he is, he shows off by trying to prove the more up to date engines are more reliable than he is only for things to humble him back later when he speeds through a station and gets sent to his shed as punishment, with Thomas, Toby and Percy taking the big red engine's experience as a laughing matter behind his back. 3. "Peel Godred Engines" - Set in the late 1940's (either 1947, 1948 or 1949), a feud between the North Western and Peel Godred engines rises as the Mid Sodor Railway closes up for business due to the extension to the Aluminum works at Peel Godred and World War II affecting that railway. During a blackout, Gordon puts his grudge against the Peel Godred aside and helps an electric engine's train out in order to rescue the train. After Gordon's successful rescue mission, a truce between the North Western and the Peel Godred engines was aligned. 4. "The Austerity Engine" - A sequel to "Wilbert the Forest Engine"; After Wilbert went back home to England, the Fat Controller arranges for a new Austerity tank engine that looked like Wilbert. Jensen was the engine who he could find and was made another permanent addition to Thomas' branch line. 5. "Mid Sodor Engines" - In a time before Stuart and Falcon became Peter Sam and Sir Handel and joined the Skarloey Railway, they had a lot to learn from the oldest of the Mid Sodor engines, Duke. One story would be about Duke in his youth, Stuart in the second, Falcon in the other, and all three coming together in the fourth chapter with the last story showing the closure of the Mid Sodor before Stuart and Falcon were sold off and also before Duke was abandoned and sheeted up. *SPOILER ALERT!* No.2 is eventually scrapped, you're welcome! 6. "Coffee Pot Engines" - The engines who ran Thomas' branch line before Thomas himself were the coffee pot engines, and the most famous one of them all was Glynn. We get a somber story about Glynn being taken out of service along with the coffee pot engines in the start. After Thomas just got his branch line, the blue tank engine is still interested in who the coffee pots were besides having discovered Glynn, only for him to find out that they worked on his branch line years ago before he came. Years later, Marion the Steam Shovel discovers Glynn accidentally and Glynn was soon restored after having been found again by Thomas. He now resides at Ulfstead Castle as one of the estate engines. Sure, this is something out of the TV series. Just go with it. 7. "More About the Mountain Engines" - Not much to say other than a sequel to the 1964 book taking place in the 1970's. Ernest went on retirement, Alaric and Eric had been withdrawn (either having been sold off to another railway, a railway museum, or were scrapped to death off-page), and the Culdee Fell Railway gets two new diesels. and 8. "North Western Construction" - An episode taking place in a time Hiro and Edward were two of the first engines to arrive on Sodor, and this is set before "Hero of the Rails", except if HOTR was in the RWS. I know that Hiro was built in the 1930's just like the other JNR Class engines, but let's just say he was built as a prototype in this timeline. Hiro and Edward have helped build the North Western Railway from 1913-1914. After that, Hiro broke down at a forest and Edward did not know where Hiro was or when he'll be back. But over time, Edward forgot about Hiro and Hiro was nearly forgotten about by almost everyone on Sodor, all he could do is wait until his new parts would finally come. After attempts to look for Hiro were unsuccessful, the Fat Director subsequently ordered two new engines to take Hiro's place. The two new blue engines were awful, ungrateful, rude and treated Edward poorly. After the arrival of the new blue engines, Edward was left alone in his shed until years later, he would have his chance to come out again and have a day outside the shed once upon a time.
I’ll be nice if more RWS books were made, like I wanna see more stories about The First Red Engine (Allied Greedy/Afton) The Second Red Engine (Eagle), 98462 (Alfred) and 85746 (Crovan), a story about more about mountain engines like you mentioned in the video, the story about more about mountain engines should include 4 new diesel locomotives named Norman CFR #9, Betty CFR #10, Phyllis CFR #11 and George CFR #12 and they’re already introduced in those weird and cringey new engine slideshow videos, a story about Emily The Emerald Engine since Emily was never in the RWS and was only introduced in the TV series.
I would like have seen books with more real life engines. Such as Gordon needing a heavy overhaul and being temporarily replaced on the express by Tornado. A Talyllyn engine visiting the Skarloey Railway (since both Sir Handel and Peter Sam have visited the Talyllyn), a Snowdon Mountain Engine visiting the Culdee Fell, and an engine from the Ravenglass & Eskdale or the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch coming to the Alresdale Railway. Or Thomas visiting the Bluebell reuniting with Stepney and meeting Birch Grove, his only surviving relative. Or, a sequel to Oliver's escape from scrap, only 20 years later and this time a Deltic or Class 50 is making its escape to Sodor to avoid scrap to make the tables turn.
1. I prefer Barry as a Tender Engine and painted Black to make him stand out from Blue, Green and Red. 2. I’ll keep Charlie purple but have him as the private engine of Mr. Jolly’s Chocolate Factory as a little reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3. If Stanley wasn’t a hybrid, an Austerity would fit the deal. 4. If the Culdee Fell Engines did appear in the show, They would have wore the colours of the rainbow, Culdee of course would be Purple. 5. I think Emily and Whiff (who is a LBSCR E4 in my eyes) fits Sodor and Mainland. After the railway closed, they became the private engines of The Duke and Duchess of Boxford until Spencer came to the picture. Emily becomes NWR No. 12 and Whiff resides at the Vicarstown Railway Museum. 6. Thomas in my headcanon is built in May 1925 as NWR ‘Payne Tanks’ S1. Because I can not see Thomas being older and bigger than Gordon when he is supposed to be cheeky, short and stumpy.
I'm tempted to write a Railways Series inspired collection of fanfictions centred on the TVS Characters and how they'd fit into the actual books. I've already decided upon using Whiff, Molly, Neville, Murdoch, Arthur and Emily. But I wouldn't mind mixing around with other characters like Nia, Rebecca or Yung Bao too. Given that Barry and the others never had their own books published. I might bring them in as well. Glenn and Stephen are high on my list though. As well as Merlin and Hurricane.
Maybe now people will write about these characters. Also 8:28 he was outside in a shed, so he didn't drown. But "pump failure" is still very vague. EDIT: Ok, so I was looking more into it, and this went on for WAYY longer than I thought it was, but I'm going to commit to it. Keep in mind, these are just supposed to be along the lines of brainstorming and ideas more than any sort of tips, guidance. I'm gonna guess maybe the title of Barry's book would've been a pun of sorts. Like, he would've been saved, and would've alternatively saved others one way or another. Also yeah, like Donald & Douglas in the books, I can't see him sticking to BR Black after they just discarded. Ivatt's engines look good in a lot of colors, so I could go either way. Bloomer, probably 1-2 books at most. It seems like he only comes out seasonally/for events given he's 161-172 years old (2023) and probably wouldn't even have an actual NWR number. The Shildon Cavalcade and other galas/events like that would be ideas for him. -not to mention a break from the usual topics- I feel like the W&S idea could be intertwined with the one about Thomas and Edward's arrival, considering the pregrouping engines would be there until at least sometime after WWI. Ideas just come down to who the characters are and how much longer you think they could've survived. It's just 3/4 bases and some dates for most of the old railways, with Neil being the only one name. Period. One thing with Peel Godred is that the ones Awdry says works it don't match the dates. He says (at least one) Class 86, Class 87, and an EMU work on it. But they were built in 1965/66, 1973/75, and who knows respectively while the branch opened the same year as the first book in 1923. So there must've been other engines that just never get acknowledged. Maybe they were old and decided to use it as an opportunity to change voltage and thus withdrew them? Who knows? Maybe some NER EF1s and some old EMUs. Like I said before about Stanley, but I kinda wonder if Atlas and Alfred were temp names/models for Falcon and Stuart. They're so out of place, don't appear again, and when they did appear, the two you know would've been there aren't. Unless more is revealed at the next AwdryEx, it's not confirmed tho. Not much else to say aside from more MSR stuff aside from the main 3 1/2 would be nice. Ok, so I had to check. Percy's Porridge mentions the engine is, in fact, intended for The Little Western. In that way, Sheffield's green livery was actually fitting in a way. Same issue as the W&S. Nowhere to start when there's nothing to go off of. But it's possible it would've been 16 that was purchased. Unlike Wilbert, 16 and his heritage railway are never specified or made out to be real. So maybe he was sold to the NWR? More TK&E stuff would be cool, as it's mostly just Glynn copied from the show. One thing that probably would need to be brought up is that 3 engines built by Sir Topham Hatt were scrapped in the 50s, which just adds to that "literally an evil dictator" look. Maybe make it an executive decision neither Hatts wanted, or the senior did reluctantly? Idk Hatt I did die in 1956, so it's possible the last was scrapped the same year. I heard the basis for either Eric or Alaric derailed at some point in (I want to say) the 80s and rolled down a bit. It wasn't serious, but it did happen. Also a pet idea I always liked was the inverse of what was mentioned, being that the scrapped Snowdon engines went to the Culdee Fell. For ideas, try looking through the wikipedia page for rack railways for some to pull from. SLM (Who designed the engines for both CFR and SMR) made engines for a lot of mountain railways, so I'd recommend looking into those for ideas. Also just because they're really really gorgeous. Man, Switzerland looks so nice. You didn't have to do that to Neil. The S&M's follies have so much potential for a book. Not to mention that Neil, Skarloey, & Rheneas are possibly some of the only sources left for it due to their record keeping would be interesting. This is absolutely a missed opportunity. It would've worked so well, and giving some sort of explanation to the two number engines whos names may not even be canon anymore would be nice. The ending would've been cool as well. Yeah I definitely agree, it feels like things have settled down by the time Chris is writing. It may not all work, but it's nice.
I would quite like to adapt… Little Blue Engines And I’ll credit you. Also for that book, the engines of the N.W.R. were, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, 98462, 87546, two both unnamed and unnumbered red engines, an both unnamed and unnumbered green engine, Four both unnamed and unnumbered blue engines, all of the tidmouth knapford and elsbridge coffee pots and all of the wellsworth and suddery engines with the scraped one with maybe all of the scraps Sodor and mainland engines. That’s about about all of the standard gauge engines I think were on the N.W.R.
Honestly if anyone wants more Railway Series I suggest you check out the early books of the Extended Railway Series on Sodor Island Forms, they are pretty solid and gives more stories to different characters. Also I highly recommend the 70th anniversary special "The Gravy Train", I don't really enjoy the newer books though...
I really feel "Barry The Rescue Engine" and "Wellsworth And Suddery Engines" should’ve been books. I certainty would’ve been one the the first people to buy them.
Great Top 10 video! 😄👍🏻 I wonder if Barry is Arthur? 😱 Maybe during the idea’s for the Characters for Series 7. The creator’s took inspiration or information from an Awdry family member and used it for the creation of Arthur. 🤔
I would have loved it if there was a book called "Welsh Highland Engines". It would be about three Welsh Highland Garratt Locomotives called Sian (the level headed voice of reason), Sioni (the boisterous and brash one) and Hwmffra (the no nonsense one who has a horrible temper)
With the W&S book, I feel the survivor should be No 3, as in my mind makes the most sense to survive, being the most powerful and more versatile than the manning wardles
I know overtime some books aren't published due to his age but still they might get interesting in fact when thinking about this in one of my projects I might have a few ideas based on these that ties the lore along with other content from the franchise.
Appreciate the shout out! Would have loved to see all of these, the Peel Godred engines especially
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And the Arlesdale Tramway Engines and the tale of Two Henrys.
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I find it ironic how the difference between the RWS and TVS goes: Children wanted more Thomas and the main cast and never new engines in the RWS, but then the tables got turned around when they wanted to see more new engines that appear in every season of the show.
We as humanity are confusing...
@@bulatao195 Ofc we make humanity
Tbf it’s because the TV series thomas LARGELY abandoned all the traits that made everyone like him in the first place after a few seasons. The railway series doesn’t even mention Thomas but he was so popular these show decided to name itself after him
Interestingly as a child, I never wanted more Thomas. I hated how Thomas was the focus of every episode during the hit era
@@fawkeweto be fair, we peaked with the 70th anniversary by literally going back to basics
This is all interesting book ideas, especially Little Blue Engines.
Given how much lore and history Wilbert Awdry put into the Island of Sodor and its railways, plus having real-life history added in along with it, it’s surprising stuff like the Peel Godred Electric Engines, the NWR’s construction and stories taking place on all the Light Railways before they were all connected to form the NWR, were never made into stories in any books.
Most of this is either up to the readers’ imagination on what happened or fans have written their own stories already. That’s the beauty of The Railway Series: the lore is ever-expanding and connects with real-life events in history, that the ideas for stories are endless. They could literally last until the end of time.
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Wow, simply incredible! It is honestly a shame Christopher Awdry didn't get to do those concepts because the publishers wanted more of Thomas, but hey, we all know now. I definitely would've loved Barry the Rescue Engine as well as books about Peel Godred, the Mid-Sodor engines, the Austerity engine, Neil and the mountain engines in the present day. Your idea of Thomas and Edward working together on Sodor before the first ever book is also very interesting.
I had an idea for "The Duke's Engine", where we see Duke in his youth, back in the 1870s.
I'd say publishing those 4 or 5 books Christopher wrote and those small ideas mentioned in the IOS book would be perfect for anniversaries. I do hope Mattel would honour The Railway Series more in the future.
I actually wrote a book very similar to the Culdee Fell one you mentioned where the railway gets two diesels, and it also includes a story where Alaric becomes a runaway and almost ends up like Godred, I can't find the source now, but I remember reading a few years ago that his real life counterpart, Ralph, almost fell off the mountain after losing grip with the rack.
i know this is late, but do you think you could provide a link to your stories?
The more I learn about RWS stories that could've been, the more I wish we could've gotten them. Cause they would've been much better than what we have now.
This was an amazing video Adam. While there have been people that have explored a few of these things the most prominent person I can think of is TheBuriedTruck. But the railway series did leave a lot to be desired when it comes to these topics that we're very glossed over. If there were any books I would add to this I would love to see a book about the Diesel engines on the Arsdale railway more about Frank and getting to see Sigrid of Arlesdale and the Blister twins. What life is like on the skarloey railway is after the building of Ivo Hugh. Or getting more insight on the funicular railway that was built in 1985. Keep up the good work man can't wait to see more videos.
I feel a bit sad that Barry the rescue engine will never see the light of day. We never got any illustrations of him, he turned out to be a tank engine instead of a tank engine, and we don’t know anything about his story or personality.
I just realised I put tank engine twice instead of tender engine. Whoops. Either way I still think he sounds better as a BR standard class 2.
I just want to point out my OWN thoughts about some of these book ideas:
1. Barry the Rescue Engine. I like to think that Barry becomes the station pilot, however I also think that he would also be the engine in charge of pulling the breakdown train, which would explain why he would be called The Rescue Engine.
2. Wellsworth & Suddery Engines. You should check out The Buried Truck's stories about them.
3. Coffee Pot Engines. You forgot to mention Glynn from the CGI series because he's the surviving Coffee Pot Engine in the Thomas Canon.
The austerity engine could have heard of sodor as a place from kids books and not take other engines seriously leading to a crash
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If Bloomer was female she would be the first regular female steam engine in the books
If we talking about Barry…he’s my thing….
RWS headcanon: Barry is suffering from trauma and has panic attacks whenever he sees a diesel. Luckily Douglas and Oliver being scrap refugees themselves are able to help him with his anxiety and overtime Barry becomes friends with Bear and Boco, and maybe be painted red
TVs/RWS hybrid: Arthur and Barry exist as two different engines, they are brothers who never met and just like the RWS headcanon, it’s basically somewhat the same. Arthur and Barry have different opinions on scenery, since Arthur likes the Norramby branch since it’s a different kind of scenery but Barry would rather the countryside (since they are both midland engines). Barry would be painted maroon like Arthur, only different being he would have no logo on his side tanks…but to this day, sometimes engines who don’t pay attention will believe one is the other by mistake lol
I always wonder what the characters would have been like in the books.
The buried Truck made fanmade Bloomer and W&S engines books. Barry is the book character everyone would want to see as well as The Mystery Austerity. The Peel Godred is one that would be nice to see.
7:45 waited for the laugh
Great video! It’s such a shame Chris was so restricted by the publishers, it would have been nice to flesh out the world of Sodor a bit more
When I studied childcare one of our tasks was to write our own book. I wrote and still have the a RWS book featuring the Skarloey Railway. Stories included Duncan getting covered in chocolate during an egg hunt along the railway, Peter Sam getting over a fear of sheep and the discovery of a new narrow-gauge diesel engine.
I feel the series could have gone in a vastly different direction if Thomas hadn't been pushed to the fore through the TV series. I'd gladly read those books, and I really should give Chris's books another try as I've only read 1 or 2 and didn't like the change in style from his father.
I would love to read these stories of yours
@@sirwelcome I will try and find the book it's in a box in a spare room
I like Barry being repainted in LMS colors. besides the parallel to Arthur, the island's GWR engines are painted in their home railway's colors. And the most fun part to me is that the LMS used to have an extended route down to Norramby. Who knows? Maybe Barry himself ran the line until getting pulled out by BR. Even if he didn't I still feel the livery would be fitting.
Imagine if one day Richard Awdry started publishing RWS books, the fandom would lose their minds!
Personally I'd love to see more stories about Sodor in moderrn day, maybe have other engines dealing with their age and either pushing through or accepting retirement.
I hope he does one day
@@fanofeverything30465 Me too, provided Mattel (or any company in the future) gives him full reign of the books and what he puts into them (or at least 75 to 80% of control), I’m sure he’d make an amazing successor to the role of Railway Series author.
@@AndrewHager02 Let's hope that happens then
Would've loved to see some of these titles. I particularly like the Wellsworth and Suddery, Neil, Little Blue Engines and The Austerity Engine ones.
I honestly have an Idea in co-realation with the TVs and RWs about Atlas & Alfred;
(Though, mostly Atlas)
I like to think that both engines were bought along side Stanley (since the three of them are American), and out of the three, Atlas is the most well behaved. But due to the lack of spare parts that could sooth him, he was unfortunatly left in a siding near the mines till the day the MSR was closed;
But a few years later, he would eventualy be re-discovered by Toby (thus, making him the RWs equivalent of Bertram), and soon after, he would reunite with Duke, Peter Sam & Sir Handel. And re-tell the good-old days of the Mid-Sodor.
Nice video by the way mate (: D)
Actually I think the rumor was Barry being a Standard 2, not an Ivatt.
Another thing I'd go for is remasters of the older books (or even just illustrations) with some of these details - the Peel Godred branch opened at the time of book 1 - if it had electrics back then, they would've been different from the 86 and 87s.
The sheds rebuild and appear in older book
Sir Charles being promoted after the queen visited,
Some batch of stories set in the 70s
How the W&Ss and Coffee pots interacted or plus the 6 from the first book.
New Tidmouth pilot after Duck,
Good video, I hope someone makes these lost stories, in fact I am one of those people who is doing the Little Blue Engines book but not knowing that it was originally planned by Awdry. Literally everything you said about this is what I'm writing, showing what the beginnings of Thomas and Edward's relationship are like, that those two big bully blue engines are the ones from Edward's Day Off and how they would later be sent away from There, I was really excited and surprised that I was doing such a thing. Now I am forced to do it in the best way.
A neil book wouldve gone so hard bro, as a neil fanatic myself it wouldve been nice having more information/stories for neil and the S&M
Reverend W. Audrey built a model of an austarity locomotive, it was named warrington. A common theory is that Warrington is the austarity that was purchased after the after Wilbert's visit. I think Warrington would just be a spare locomotive that that would do whatever needed to be done, since Austarities are versatile.
The model as-bought was green, so it's possible it was supposed to eventually be converted into Wilbert, who was named after him. Warrington itself is also preserved so unless you wanna pull a TVS Stepney, ehhh
@@firstnamlastnam2141 yeah no warrington is allready preserved theres no chance wilbert would make him the austerity willbert never puts real preserved engines on th nwr, i personaly think sixteen being saved and not scrapped was a hint that he was coming to sodor
@@the_birb23 Right? Him being saved and never being given a specific location feels too intentional for him to NOT be the austerity engine. But whether he mellowed out of not afterward, who knows? Chris probably, but that's it.
To me Berry would be painted blue & it would be cool to see more of narrow gauge engines on the narrow gauge line.
I think we should have gotten more Stories, or even a full book about BoCo & Bear titled:
The Green Diesel Friends
maybe the Stories could be called:
1. Bear & BoCo
Maybe they would meet or talk with each other for the first ever. And they get to know each other. Maybe this is were we get infos on where Bear worked before he arrived.
2. Failures
This would be where we get some interesting History on the 2 Diesels, more specifically, why BoCo & perhaps even Bear (& D199) & their class were failures.
3. Trust between the 2.
This Story could be about James, who still doesn't like Diesel, as this book might take place in the late 70s or 80s, and pranks the 2, telling Bear lies that BoCo off course did not say, and then the same with Bear telling lies about BoCo. I hppe you get it. And then, since we see them trusting each other in the first 2 Stories, they would find James out.
4. Friendships
This is infact a part 2 to the 3rd Story.
BoCo & Bear, who became very good friends, finally wanted to pay James out, and they did. They in Secret invited the Fat Controller, who after a bit aggred. Then they tell James that his Loco-Passenger Run to Brendam was cancelled, and that he has to bring empty Trucks to Brendam Harbour instead. However, BoCo was coppled at the back, which he uses to brake James down, so that he would arrive very late at Brendam Harbour. Bill & Ben then would be confused on too why he brought Trucks, sibce they don't need them.
And them, we would see Bear with James' Original Loco-Passenger Run arriving at Brendam. Then James, Boco & Bear were not completely friends, however James' Arrogant's against Diesel's would go down after this one.
I hope you enjoy these ones, i made a bit up right know, but i actually had an idea like this in mind for a goid bit now. Enjoyed your Video a lot. See you soon with another banger Video probably.
I like the idea of BoCo's brother CoBo (D5705) joining the railway and the 2 Metropolitan Vickers diesels get their own back on Bill & Ben:-)
A book I would've liked to see is "LNER Engines". A book where we see Gordon before arriving to Sodor and we see how Gordon got so pompous. Maybe we'd even see Flying Scotsman as an LNER A1 instead of an A3
Another good idea for the Mid Sodor Engines is the MSR reopening, like the real life Corris Railway did. The Extended Railway Series actually did just that. It's something that no one besides me and the ERS has done.
Very Interesting. I think I would’ve loved to see Barry the Rescue Engine and The Austerity Engine.
Dudley should have been in the Railway Series. He is a perfect steam engine antagonist and brought us more insight into Bear. I think I should make a video about Dudley.
Same here.
Dudly v alfred is something we desperately need
is it ok if I take this idea and use for a vid dilophosaursniper? I can credit you
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@@wyattm6782 me too
A book/collection of books I'd have liked to have seen (that ironically has little to do with Sodor: Bluebell Engines.
Considering Stepeny gave his five fellow Bluebells names and some characteristics it would have been really interesting to have had stories with them. Additionally if it was written in the 1980s and 1990s then there would be plenty of other Bluebells, each with a story to tell, to introduce.
Diesel's real life basis 13236 visited the Bluebell Railway in 2008-14. I think the steam engines would be hostile to him as he was their railway's first diesel...
Here's an idea for a book: Diesel the Devious Engine. This book covers Diesel's time on the Other Railway after the events of Duck and the Diesel Engine. We see how Diesel's life has taken a bad turn after he left Sodor and how even the managers don't trust him, especially after the book was published. We then see a flash forward to when the Class 08s were being withdrawn and Diesel goes through a similar situation to what happened with Duck back in '57. However instead of being sad or upset about being sent away, Diesel just takes it all in stride. Halfway through the book, we see how Diesel's owner is struggling to keep him in working order and maintain his business. This part takes place during the events of Thomas and the Great Railway Show and when Thomas hears about this, he promises Diesel that he'll inform The Fat Controller about it, which he does during the end of the story. The last chapter sees Diesel being purchased by the North Western Railway and performing odd jobs until he's settled in. Although Duck and the big engines don't trust him at first, Thomas, Toby, Annie and Clarabel put in a good word for Diesel and tell them what happened during Diesel's last visit. The big engines are surprised but Duck still doesn't believe it. That changes when Duck breaks down and Diesel is the only engine available to help. Duck waits for the teasing, but Diesel doesn't. He just focuses in getting the passengers home. The book ends with Diesel becoming the station pilot at Tidmouth, a much happier and wiser engine. I feel this book would've been a good way to explore Diesel's character a bit more in the series. What do you guys think?
I like to think that the wellsworth and suddery engines were the following: engine number 1 harry, number 2 boris and number 3 shane. And that they still work on the wellsworth branchline
7:43 smudger may or may not be cannon the rws because smudger visits the talylln railway.
here’s some tvs stories but in rws style.
emily the stirling single.
barges and queens = james and the queen of sodors.
emily = emily’s new coaches.
back on the roads = bulgy rides again
poor henry = what’s the matter with henry?
useful little engines:
the magic lamp = the magic lamp.
duncan gets spooked = duncan gets spooked.
mobile refreshments = the refreshment ladies stand.
the grand opening = the grand opening.
42: The Austerity Engine (1999)
43: Bloomer the Old Engine (2000)
44: Little Blue Engines (2001)
45: Wellsworth and Suddery Engines (2002)
46: Neil the Ugly Engine (2003)
47: Barry the Rescue Engine (2004)
48: Peel Godred Engines (2006)
49: Coffee Pot Engines (2007)
50: Mid-Sodor Engines (2008)
51: More About Mountain Engines (2009)
52: Thomas and His Friends (2010)
Now Wilbert and Christopher are equal.
Thomas And His Friends was released in 2011 and Thomas And Victoria was in 2007
@@sirwelcome Not in this TL
@@damianhendriks6162 what timeline?
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I'm now expecting a whole load of fan made stories uploading in the next few months.
5:05 Charlie shares his name with Edward's driver who is also called Charlie. Also at 2:01 I made up a female engine with that basis called Bonnie who is from Scotland like Donald and Douglas and she is painted ruddy blue with while lining and silver buffers along with a silver railway logo on each side of her tender. This is due to the lack of female locomotives.
It would be nice to have a taste of what the 4 planned Christopher Awdry stories could’ve been about
I think little blue engines could've shown Thomas starting to get respect for Edward and feel bad for him being left In the shed and how Gordon treated Edward couldve been why Thomas became so cheeky and not like Gordon Edward was like a role model to Thomas while they were building the main line and maybe showing Thomas standing up for Edward which would show Thomas having a side to him that wasn't really seen during this time.
You telling me there was more than Barry the Rescue Engine??
I'm now inspired to make even more of my own RWS books!
I would retitle "Peel Godred Engines" to "Electric Engines:" i think that fits better overall with the rest of the RWS.
Maybe if Chris hadn’t been so restricted with the publishers and the Shows popularity, maybe he would’ve finished the book series of at an even 50.
I'm working on a Railway Series book centred on the Norramby branch and the 2 diesel units that work there. Here's the first story:
Vikings!
Derby and Matlock are two of a kind. They were built for trial service on the Other Railway. Now they run on the Norramby branch, between Sodor and the mainland.
One morning, Derby was waiting to leave Barrow when he noticed some very unusual looking people on the platform. They had large backpacks and wooden chests.
I wonder who they are, he thought.
The signal turned green and Derby left the station. He crossed the Vicarstown Bridge onto the Island of Sodor.
When he reached the passing station at Ballahoo, Derby met Matlock coming the other way.
“Hey up Matlock,” he said, “I picked up some strange looking people at Barrow. They look different from the usual holidaymakers.”
“I say Derby,” Matlock replied, “There’s a strange looking boat at the marina. It’s got a big red and white striped sail and a dragon’s head at the front - I’ve never seen anything like it!”
Derby kept thinking about it as he made his way towards Norramby.
As he rounded the curve and approached the marina, he saw it!
Nothing had prepared him!
“Wow!” he breathed. It looked amazing!
When Derby arrived at Norramby, he met Hubert the Hovercraft.
“Hallo there,” Hubert said, “Are you alright??? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
“I’VE SEEN A DRAGON!” Derby exclaimed.
He told Hubert about the strange and fierce looking ship.
He knew what it was!
“That sounds like a Viking longship,” Hubert replied, “When I was first built I ran the cross Channel hovercraft; there’s a Viking ship near the old Ramsgate Hoverport. They sailed here from Denmark without an engine, just as the Vikings did all those years ago. My captain says it’s still there.”
“It’s got a tall mast and a big sail,” Derby observed, “They’d have to lift the bridge to get in and out of the marina!”
Hubert laughed.
“They had to lower the mast to go under the bridge,” he said, “It’s sailed from the Isle of Man for the Norramby Viking Festival.”
“What’s a Viking Festival?” Derby asked.
“It’s a living history event where people dress up and live like the Vikings for the weekend. They do their cooking, crafts and fighting displays; lots of people come to see them.”
“Are those people I brought up from Barrow taking part?”
“It looks like it,” Hubert finished, “See you later.”
Derby’s driver changed ends and they set off back to the mainland.
He saw the Viking ship again as he passed the marina. Now he knew what it was, it didn’t look scary!
Derby & Matlock are BR Class 151 units; the only 2 built:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_151
In real life, both were scrapped. During their trial service they ran on the Derby - Matlock line (where their names come from). During their time on the mainland they met BoCo's brother CoBo (D5705) in storage in the old Matlock goods shed.
The book will feature BoCo & CoBo.
I like to think that barry was still an ivat tank when rescued but after extsenive overhauls he was rebuilt as an ivat tender engine, so he can keep his iconic look
Or maybe vice versa? (which is what actually is happening in preservation now with the Bluebell Railway’s 2MT tank project..)
I think you have something very good with "Little Blue Engines" there! I like the idea of the last book Wilbert Awdry would write and publish would go all the way back to just before the beginning of "Three Railway Engines."
7:38 Albert
The fact that I never knew cancelled books even existed Is surprising to me D:
you been living under a rock or something?
@@Sudriantank743just because he never knew they existed doesn’t mean he’s living under a rock
@@bernarda1247 but he surely should know about barry
I'd personally have kept Alaric and Eric in service.
I'd like excluding yours:
*Aluminum Engines* - Stuart and Falcon's between MS and SKD
*Steelworks Diesels* - Incorperating Arry and Bert
*Sodor Roadways* - Giving spotlight to Caroline, George, Algy/Bertie ans Trevor/Terence. Maybe incoperate Butch
*Duck and the Bluebell Engines* - Duck and Stepney reunion where Duck Helps out on Stepney's line and we meet the others properly
*Engines and the Storm* - A terrible storm his Sodor as we have a story from various lines seeing how they cope. One NWR, One CFR, One SKR and One AR. I'd probably give the NWR story to focus on the Peel Godred line with James and Bear helping out
*North Western Diesels* - Giving Bear and BoCo spotlight stories.
*Oliver & The Diesels* - Focusing on Oliver's encounters with The Diesels on Sodor and PTSD around them and him overcoming it.
*Arlesdale Diesels* - Frank, Sigrid and the Blisters get focus here.
*Fred the Lazy Diesel Engine* - Since he never appeared lets give him a book too and also include Ivo Hugh as he didn't get a speaking Line.
*The Sodor Transport Museum* - A Coffee Pot is found and Neil returns and are exhibits as is Caroline.
*Reformed Engine* - Instead if youe Austerity Story. Mine includes Sixteen being the one that was brought to Sodor. After discovering he is Sixteen, the other engines are wary and Sixteen is determined to prove himself to them all he is a reforned engine
*Twin Engines* - Bill is sent away for repairs after an Accident and Ben struggles without his twin and BoCo and Edward (Charlie too following yours) support him. Ben eventually learns he can work independently when he needs too.
*Works Engines* - Victor and Kevin incoperater here. The Works Diesel (Jeff from fan series) gets some spotlight. Victor is brought in to help when it comes to the SKR.
*Dockyard Engines* - Incorperating Salty and Cranky but the Docks is Tidmouth as that is the larger station here and on the mainline.
*Kirk Ronan Engines* - Introducing New Engines for the Kirk Ronan line when it reopens. Mayge 1 story introducing the cement works and Fergus.
*Unique Engines* - Harvey is brought from a Hertidge line who can't afford his repairs anymore. He, Daisy, Toby and Percy get spotlight stories.
*Grudgeful Engines*
- Diesel returns and even after saving Clarabel in Thomas and the Evil Diesel still has to make things up with Duck and the Mainline trio. Oliver, Donald, Douglas also refuse to acceot Diesel and Thomas, Annie and Clarabel have to fix the tension.
Given the TVS popularity, If a character could work I think working them into the RWS would be nice. Some like Emily , Lady and Diesel 10 though I don't think could work but the Diesels easily could
Here are some facinating concepts for RWS books. All of them would surely work well.
I must confess that I've considered writing some of these books before myself...
Exapmles: Mid Sodor Engines, The Austerity Engine, Cofee Pot Engines, Wellsworth & Suddery Engines etc. Wich are all fun ideas.
Personally, i would name the book about Neil: "The Sodor & Mainland Engines", however "Neil the ugly engine" work very well too!
The fact that Christopher's books had potential but were never given a chance to fully realise it is terrible, shameful is what it is.
PS: Little Blue Engines....................YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your idea on the Suddery Engines.
Great list! I would've loved these books to have happened
For Barry, I like to think that he is a Standard 2mt Tender, converted to a tank, similar to 78059 -> 84030 at bluebell
Little blue engines should be a real book to put the final nail in the coffin for the RWS as a 43rd book for Christopher to rival AEG and final put the books to a slow end. To have one final piece of good Thomas again. to end it, where it started…
I think that little blue engines would be of been a great last rws book calling back to the first ever book
I would have liked a book about the time where the final director before Sir Richard Topham came on the scene explains how Sodor was before the days of the Topham century.
From Little Old Engines we know that before Richard Topham Sodor was managed differently and Skarloey says it wasn't very well managed.
Would have LOVED a book on the electric engines. Asides from adding to the lore, there could have been characters based off of older British electric locos (class 86 & 87) and multiple units (class 302, 307, and 310).
A book I would kind of like is a book about Sodor's diesel engines, focusing more on bear and Boco (maybe focusing on how bear adjusted to the island?). Here are a few name ideas:
Mainline Diesels
Bear the Diesel engine
My ideal missing RWS that either Wilbert or Christopher would've written would be these:
1. Little Blue Engines. You explained your idea for this book in here, so I won't discuss what that book would've likely been about.
2. Addison, the Other Red Engine. This book would basically be about that random engine seen trying to push Henry out of the tunnel. She would be based on an LBSCR K class (the only reason why she looks like James during Dalby's tenure is because Dalby didn't really give a flying toss about engine consistency). The first three, maybe two, stories would be Addison's life going into Sodor (when she was on loan to help with the NWR's locomotive crisis), but later get sent away (not because she was naughty or anything, her character would basically be polite yet very strict, taking no nonsense for bullying or laziness) because the Southern Railway wanted her back. The final story of this book would be Topham Hatt travelling to Hove railway station in 1962 and purchasing Addison for the Northwestern Railway again. She's repainted into the same red livery as James, but her red is slightly darker than Mr. Somebody Has to Be the Favorite.
3. Bloomer, the Old/Vintage Engine (the title depends on your taste). You explained your idea for this book in here, so I won't discuss what that book would've likely been about.
4. Barry, the Rescue Engine. I think that your idea for the book is a great idea, but my spin on it is when Barry gets the role of "rescue engine" the position gets to his smokebox, and it results in an accident that ruins his "spotless record" he keeps up with, but he is later redeemed when someone needs rescuing, and he is renamed Arthur (fittingly by Henry, since his new shape was of the design of William Arthur Stanier, and Arthur was the one who rescued).
5. Tapasya, the Austerity Engine. This would be that follow up book to Wilbert's book, where Topham has finally purchased an Austerity 0-6-0ST. Tapasya is basically a combination of Thomas and Duck's personalities (where she's both cheeky but mature) and after a while, proves herself and becomes the official station pilot engine for Tidmouth. She's also allowed to pull trains on both the Ffarquhar Branch Line and the "Little Western" when needed.
If anyone else finds this comment, share your ideas for them!
a story about bloomer, and the wellsworth and suddery (especially when the wellsworth and suddery merged with that other railway i forget the name of) would be awesome, and bloomer would be a cool sorta mystery book
Should it be Peel Godred Engines or Electric Engines??
This is really good some other book ideas could be ones like an entire book dedicated to a new branchline maybe Duck getting his own book and many others
I honestly would’ve loved some more of the mid sodor and especially for boco
I'd like to imagine that Arthur and Emily are the television series equivalence of bloomer and barry :)
Whilst it’s a shame these stories were never made, it is the beauty of the Railway Series to be adapted however one sees fit.
I think for Barry's book, there should be a story where he meets Thomas. Here's the synopsis: Thomas is tasked with taking a special train due to his popularity on TV and the children all think Thomas can do it himself. The little blue engine doesn't want to disappoint them so he refuses help until he breaks down on Gordon's Hill and The Fat Controller sends Barry to rescue the train. Upon arrival, some of the passengers inquire about Barry, as they hadn't seen him in a book before. (NOTE: this would've taken place shortly after Barry's restoration.) So while they wait for a replacement engine, Thomas thanks Barry for his help. Barry then begins telling Thomas and the passengers about his time on the Other Railway as the story ends. What do you guys think?
I wanted more of the Mountain Engines!
I have been making my own Thomas timeline a bit loosely the same way NWR1991 did, but it's rather my own head canon as to how events would occur mostly on Sodor. And to take your notes from this video, Adam. I see potential into writing stories from those missing Railway Series books and write some of them on how they would fit into my own head canon Thomas lore. It's on my DeviantArt and I only have made Parts 1, 2, and 3. No sign of Part 4 yet (and people in the comments, do not ask me when I'll get to it).
The following missing books you mentioned I'm going to think of writing some stories will be as follows:
1. "Barry the Rescue Engine" - Same as your interpretation, but in my own take, Arthur reunites with him.
2. "Bloomer the Old Scottish Engine" - Two stories set in the days when Bloomer used to work on Thomas' branch line in the days of the coffee pot engines running the line before all of them were sold off for scrap (except Glynn). Thomas and his branch line friends give Bloomer a warm welcome as Bloomer comes back to Sodor to celebrate 150 years ever since the Stockton and Darlington Railway was founded, but is sad because he is rarely seen by the public due to his older age beyond this point. Out of sympathy, the branch line engines come and visit Bloomer whenever they are there for him. There would be a story where James is jealous of him because he thinks Bloomer is not as grand of a red engine as he is, he shows off by trying to prove the more up to date engines are more reliable than he is only for things to humble him back later when he speeds through a station and gets sent to his shed as punishment, with Thomas, Toby and Percy taking the big red engine's experience as a laughing matter behind his back.
3. "Peel Godred Engines" - Set in the late 1940's (either 1947, 1948 or 1949), a feud between the North Western and Peel Godred engines rises as the Mid Sodor Railway closes up for business due to the extension to the Aluminum works at Peel Godred and World War II affecting that railway. During a blackout, Gordon puts his grudge against the Peel Godred aside and helps an electric engine's train out in order to rescue the train. After Gordon's successful rescue mission, a truce between the North Western and the Peel Godred engines was aligned.
4. "The Austerity Engine" - A sequel to "Wilbert the Forest Engine"; After Wilbert went back home to England, the Fat Controller arranges for a new Austerity tank engine that looked like Wilbert. Jensen was the engine who he could find and was made another permanent addition to Thomas' branch line.
5. "Mid Sodor Engines" - In a time before Stuart and Falcon became Peter Sam and Sir Handel and joined the Skarloey Railway, they had a lot to learn from the oldest of the Mid Sodor engines, Duke. One story would be about Duke in his youth, Stuart in the second, Falcon in the other, and all three coming together in the fourth chapter with the last story showing the closure of the Mid Sodor before Stuart and Falcon were sold off and also before Duke was abandoned and sheeted up. *SPOILER ALERT!* No.2 is eventually scrapped, you're welcome!
6. "Coffee Pot Engines" - The engines who ran Thomas' branch line before Thomas himself were the coffee pot engines, and the most famous one of them all was Glynn. We get a somber story about Glynn being taken out of service along with the coffee pot engines in the start. After Thomas just got his branch line, the blue tank engine is still interested in who the coffee pots were besides having discovered Glynn, only for him to find out that they worked on his branch line years ago before he came. Years later, Marion the Steam Shovel discovers Glynn accidentally and Glynn was soon restored after having been found again by Thomas. He now resides at Ulfstead Castle as one of the estate engines. Sure, this is something out of the TV series. Just go with it.
7. "More About the Mountain Engines" - Not much to say other than a sequel to the 1964 book taking place in the 1970's. Ernest went on retirement, Alaric and Eric had been withdrawn (either having been sold off to another railway, a railway museum, or were scrapped to death off-page), and the Culdee Fell Railway gets two new diesels.
and 8. "North Western Construction" - An episode taking place in a time Hiro and Edward were two of the first engines to arrive on Sodor, and this is set before "Hero of the Rails", except if HOTR was in the RWS. I know that Hiro was built in the 1930's just like the other JNR Class engines, but let's just say he was built as a prototype in this timeline. Hiro and Edward have helped build the North Western Railway from 1913-1914. After that, Hiro broke down at a forest and Edward did not know where Hiro was or when he'll be back. But over time, Edward forgot about Hiro and Hiro was nearly forgotten about by almost everyone on Sodor, all he could do is wait until his new parts would finally come. After attempts to look for Hiro were unsuccessful, the Fat Director subsequently ordered two new engines to take Hiro's place. The two new blue engines were awful, ungrateful, rude and treated Edward poorly. After the arrival of the new blue engines, Edward was left alone in his shed until years later, he would have his chance to come out again and have a day outside the shed once upon a time.
Your Rewrite for Charlie is Perfect
You know, IF I was to do a take on Barry the Rescue Engine, I was thinking 2 of the stories being adapted from the 2 S7 eps to focus on Arthur
I say Barry, S&M & W&SR needed those books. Like the Neil one could of worked nicely into the W&SR book.
I’ll be nice if more RWS books were made, like I wanna see more stories about The First Red Engine (Allied Greedy/Afton) The Second Red Engine (Eagle), 98462 (Alfred) and 85746 (Crovan), a story about more about mountain engines like you mentioned in the video, the story about more about mountain engines should include 4 new diesel locomotives named Norman CFR #9, Betty CFR #10, Phyllis CFR #11 and George CFR #12 and they’re already introduced in those weird and cringey new engine slideshow videos, a story about Emily The Emerald Engine since Emily was never in the RWS and was only introduced in the TV series.
The two red engines don’t have names and neither do 87546 and 98462.
I would like have seen books with more real life engines. Such as Gordon needing a heavy overhaul and being temporarily replaced on the express by Tornado. A Talyllyn engine visiting the Skarloey Railway (since both Sir Handel and Peter Sam have visited the Talyllyn), a Snowdon Mountain Engine visiting the Culdee Fell, and an engine from the Ravenglass & Eskdale or the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch coming to the Alresdale Railway. Or Thomas visiting the Bluebell reuniting with Stepney and meeting Birch Grove, his only surviving relative. Or, a sequel to Oliver's escape from scrap, only 20 years later and this time a Deltic or Class 50 is making its escape to Sodor to avoid scrap to make the tables turn.
Isnt Norrwmby Arthur's brachline? Maybe he is Barry
Mountain Engines is my favourite book.
1. I prefer Barry as a Tender Engine and painted Black to make him stand out from Blue, Green and Red.
2. I’ll keep Charlie purple but have him as the private engine of Mr. Jolly’s Chocolate Factory as a little reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. If Stanley wasn’t a hybrid, an Austerity would fit the deal.
4. If the Culdee Fell Engines did appear in the show, They would have wore the colours of the rainbow, Culdee of course would be Purple.
5. I think Emily and Whiff (who is a LBSCR E4 in my eyes) fits Sodor and Mainland. After the railway closed, they became the private engines of The Duke and Duchess of Boxford until Spencer came to the picture. Emily becomes NWR No. 12 and Whiff resides at the Vicarstown Railway Museum.
6. Thomas in my headcanon is built in May 1925 as NWR ‘Payne Tanks’ S1. Because I can not see Thomas being older and bigger than Gordon when he is supposed to be cheeky, short and stumpy.
I'm tempted to write a Railways Series inspired collection of fanfictions centred on the TVS Characters and how they'd fit into the actual books. I've already decided upon using Whiff, Molly, Neville, Murdoch, Arthur and Emily. But I wouldn't mind mixing around with other characters like Nia, Rebecca or Yung Bao too. Given that Barry and the others never had their own books published. I might bring them in as well.
Glenn and Stephen are high on my list though. As well as Merlin and Hurricane.
Maybe now people will write about these characters. Also 8:28 he was outside in a shed, so he didn't drown. But "pump failure" is still very vague.
EDIT: Ok, so I was looking more into it, and this went on for WAYY longer than I thought it was, but I'm going to commit to it. Keep in mind, these are just supposed to be along the lines of brainstorming and ideas more than any sort of tips, guidance.
I'm gonna guess maybe the title of Barry's book would've been a pun of sorts. Like, he would've been saved, and would've alternatively saved others one way or another. Also yeah, like Donald & Douglas in the books, I can't see him sticking to BR Black after they just discarded. Ivatt's engines look good in a lot of colors, so I could go either way.
Bloomer, probably 1-2 books at most. It seems like he only comes out seasonally/for events given he's 161-172 years old (2023) and probably wouldn't even have an actual NWR number. The Shildon Cavalcade and other galas/events like that would be ideas for him. -not to mention a break from the usual topics-
I feel like the W&S idea could be intertwined with the one about Thomas and Edward's arrival, considering the pregrouping engines would be there until at least sometime after WWI. Ideas just come down to who the characters are and how much longer you think they could've survived. It's just 3/4 bases and some dates for most of the old railways, with Neil being the only one name. Period.
One thing with Peel Godred is that the ones Awdry says works it don't match the dates. He says (at least one) Class 86, Class 87, and an EMU work on it. But they were built in 1965/66, 1973/75, and who knows respectively while the branch opened the same year as the first book in 1923. So there must've been other engines that just never get acknowledged. Maybe they were old and decided to use it as an opportunity to change voltage and thus withdrew them? Who knows? Maybe some NER EF1s and some old EMUs.
Like I said before about Stanley, but I kinda wonder if Atlas and Alfred were temp names/models for Falcon and Stuart. They're so out of place, don't appear again, and when they did appear, the two you know would've been there aren't. Unless more is revealed at the next AwdryEx, it's not confirmed tho. Not much else to say aside from more MSR stuff aside from the main 3 1/2 would be nice.
Ok, so I had to check. Percy's Porridge mentions the engine is, in fact, intended for The Little Western. In that way, Sheffield's green livery was actually fitting in a way. Same issue as the W&S. Nowhere to start when there's nothing to go off of. But it's possible it would've been 16 that was purchased. Unlike Wilbert, 16 and his heritage railway are never specified or made out to be real. So maybe he was sold to the NWR?
More TK&E stuff would be cool, as it's mostly just Glynn copied from the show. One thing that probably would need to be brought up is that 3 engines built by Sir Topham Hatt were scrapped in the 50s, which just adds to that "literally an evil dictator" look. Maybe make it an executive decision neither Hatts wanted, or the senior did reluctantly? Idk Hatt I did die in 1956, so it's possible the last was scrapped the same year.
I heard the basis for either Eric or Alaric derailed at some point in (I want to say) the 80s and rolled down a bit. It wasn't serious, but it did happen. Also a pet idea I always liked was the inverse of what was mentioned, being that the scrapped Snowdon engines went to the Culdee Fell. For ideas, try looking through the wikipedia page for rack railways for some to pull from. SLM (Who designed the engines for both CFR and SMR) made engines for a lot of mountain railways, so I'd recommend looking into those for ideas. Also just because they're really really gorgeous. Man, Switzerland looks so nice.
You didn't have to do that to Neil. The S&M's follies have so much potential for a book. Not to mention that Neil, Skarloey, & Rheneas are possibly some of the only sources left for it due to their record keeping would be interesting.
This is absolutely a missed opportunity. It would've worked so well, and giving some sort of explanation to the two number engines whos names may not even be canon anymore would be nice. The ending would've been cool as well.
Yeah I definitely agree, it feels like things have settled down by the time Chris is writing. It may not all work, but it's nice.
I would quite like to adapt… Little Blue Engines And I’ll credit you.
Also for that book, the engines of the N.W.R. were, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, 98462, 87546, two both unnamed and unnumbered red engines, an both unnamed and unnumbered green engine, Four both unnamed and unnumbered blue engines, all of the tidmouth knapford and elsbridge coffee pots and all of the wellsworth and suddery engines with the scraped one with maybe all of the scraps Sodor and mainland engines. That’s about about all of the standard gauge engines I think were on the N.W.R.
Love the music choices
Honestly if anyone wants more Railway Series I suggest you check out the early books of the Extended Railway Series on Sodor Island Forms, they are pretty solid and gives more stories to different characters. Also I highly recommend the 70th anniversary special "The Gravy Train", I don't really enjoy the newer books though...
I'd love to see a collected series on Chris Awdry's books!
I super would buy it!
tree? there is a H in three 🤣
I really feel "Barry The Rescue Engine" and "Wellsworth And Suddery Engines" should’ve been books. I certainty would’ve been one the the first people to buy them.
Great Top 10 video! 😄👍🏻 I wonder if Barry is Arthur? 😱 Maybe during the idea’s for the Characters for Series 7. The creator’s took inspiration or information from an Awdry family member and used it for the creation of Arthur. 🤔
I’m now imagine a whole thing in the book just saying it took them half an hour To figure out which Albert they were talking to.
I think in the second book at the end of the book it should have been Neil was re-bought onto Sodor and there was a big party to celebrate
Great video as always.
Great video! I wish these books where for real
Did Neil really survive into modern-day? If so, that's so fascinating.
I would have love to see a book called Duck the Great Western Engine. However we got Duck and the Diesel Engine
In my headcanon, Bloomer is a rude old misanthrope - a complete 180 to most of the Island's elders!
I would literally pay big buck just to see a book about the sodor & mainland
I would have loved it if there was a book called "Welsh Highland Engines". It would be about three Welsh Highland Garratt Locomotives called Sian (the level headed voice of reason), Sioni (the boisterous and brash one) and Hwmffra (the no nonsense one who has a horrible temper)
I kinda like mountain engines
With the W&S book, I feel the survivor should be No 3, as in my mind makes the most sense to survive, being the most powerful and more versatile than the manning wardles
I would definitely prefer the austerity engine that would be amazing
I know overtime some books aren't published due to his age but still they might get interesting in fact when thinking about this in one of my projects I might have a few ideas based on these that ties the lore along with other content from the franchise.
Are there really 3 Alberts on the mid sordor😂😂
Wow, that's pretty good.
Great video ❤
Personally I would have liked to have seen a prequel book to the culdee fell railway and the coffee pot engines after very old engines