Mattel: "We don't have enough characters to reintroduce" Me: Yeah totally

Can I just say Wilbert Awdry has some of the best Original Characters.

The fact the Rev self inserted himself is funnier than it should be

I remember having an obsession with D199 as a child mainly through youtube videos featuring him, I even got a wooden railway model of him

I never knew about Awdry's self insert. Seems like the fandom inherited it's traits right from the man himself.

Personal canon time: Bill and Ben (as they did in the TVS) as well as Stanley, Charlie, Molly, Belle and Stafford take the place of the BR engines in "Percy Takes the Plunge". The twins apparently did so well at the docks while Percy and Duck were away that Topham decided to purchase them for the NWR. Peter Sam brought Cora with him and Sir Handel after they were purchased by the SKR. Murdoch is the "Big City Engine" Gordon and Duck argued with. Paxton and Sidney arrived on Sodor shortly after "Old Stuck-Up" had his accident and was sent away for repairs. Paxton was assigned to Tidmouth as its new shunter (a la "Paxton Prevails" by TheBuriedTruck) and grew rather chummy with the Skarloey engines; Sidney worked various odd jobs around the island. Paxton also takes the place of the Works Diesel in this canon's "Deep Freeze" equivalent (think something like "Gordon Runs Dry" but with James). Talyllyn is female. Merlin, Mallard, Green Arrow, Flying Scotsman, Stephen, Wilbert (the Austerity engine named for the Reverend) and Stepney were all present at the Great Railway Show. Whiff, Scruff and Harvey worked on the Peel Godred line before it was made electric. Sixteen's steelworks was the same one that Hurricane and Frankie worked at. They also worked with a diesel who rambled on and on about "gold dust" and someone called "Twinkle Toes", but he was later moved elsewhere due to his rapid fuel consumption. The Culdee Fell trucks used to be far more mean-spirited, but unlike their mainland counterparts, they quickly realized how dangerous their pranks could be. Especially after the Godred incident.

1:14 "Characters that don't have any substance" are one of my favorites. Like you know their concept(mostly thanks to Island Of Sodor and Sodor reading between the lines books), but you don't know much about them. It makes you to speculate about who they really were("Did Blue Tank Engine from 2 illustrations commit war crimes against Sodor?" for example). Oddly fascinating.

Suncole, Old King Coal and the Culdee Fell Trucks need more stories about them, genuinely don't like having so many useful characters wasted by only ever being seen or used once.

Awdry deadass had a self insert before it was cool LMAO

As someone who stares into the sun 24/7, I can confirm that I see Fred and Alf throwing hands in space. I saw them take out a local planet not long ago.

I remember when I first saw the 4 BR Engines in Percy Takes The Plunge & thinking "Wow I can't wait to see those in the episode!" 🤩 So imagine my disappointment when the show used Bill & Ben...

"TheBlueSnowplough" is DEFINITELY gonna sure 1020 has an impact!

Clicked on this faster then Thomas in HOTR

Awdry is basically the book version of Lady

10:05 Though not a Mario 64 boss, Old King Coal does appear as a boss in Banjo-Tooie (on N64 as well) in the boiler of Chuffy the Train in Glitter Gulch Mine-

When I was a kid my grandpa used to call me blister because I'd show up after the work was done 😂

Damn reverend got himself his own trainsona

10:40 technically he also exists in CGI. And we can also assume he likely exists in the model series since Duke references his father “His Grace“ quite often

I still need to read the railway series ngl, I keep forgetting tho

Old King Coal was actually a Banjoo-Tooie boss, so not too far off there TB.

I had a big city engine take n play. I was 6 when I had it and didn’t know about the book series (despite me watching Henry sees red on my grandmas TV on KZfaq multiple times 😂) and he seemed unique to me cause I’ve never seen him in the show before

Awdry's self insert oc

This will make me waiting at the Dr. More interesting. I still have my Fred freight car wooden railway

Whenever TrainBoy posts, I check it out immediately.

Here's a better fact for Neil: He's apparently still around and on Sodor somewhere.

“Albert Regaby” *shows a goddamn Wii Mii* I lost it there! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

12:40 bro lookin like he bouta ask if I got any games on my phone

I personally like to believe Albert was sold to a heritage railway somewhere far away, instead of being scrapped.

Headcanon time: When Sir Topham Hatt talked about getting an austerity tank engine, he did. This was billy, but of course as an austerity. He was very annoying at first, but through some character development he would learn how he could benefit from being less annoying. He was also built with Wilbert, the two being very close.

Minor correction on the subject of Barry: While Barry Island is a part of the greater town of Barry in South Wales, Woodham Brothers scrapyard (colloquially Barry Scrapyard) isn't actually on the island. (Which also isn't an island. It's sort of misnomers all the way down.) Barry the planned engine likely isn't named directly after the island.

3:57 The Thomas the train engine original character ever.

The improv you BSsed for many of these as the video progress is quite funny! I'll admit I did not know about the Awdry locomotive actually existed before this. You always learn something from KZfaq.

I had no idea Thomas worked with boxhill, I never had a clue that was ever brought up.

Me: try to impress me the trains at 9:32 and 12:58: exist Me:I am impressed

"godred, lost a fortnite match" had me dyinggg XD

10:48 his name sounds like onomatopoeia for when a spring flies

9:38 Genuinely wonder if the Ministry of Defence sent both a standard gauge and a narrow gauge engine to Sodor to help with the war effort? Just a thought.

10:05 "Also sounds like a Mario 64 boss" My guy, Old King Coal is a Banjo-Tooie boss. Not mad, just disappointed.

RWS Mallard looks like Sylvester Stallone and I can’t unsee it.

😱Awdry inserted himself as an engine character in one of the books

Awesome video trainboy

*Making boxhill while watching this video* 5:08

fun fact: Iron Duke shouldn't be old, because He's just a replica of an existing loco also the works diesel died

2:11 They actually have names now, 87546 is Alfred and 98462 is Crovan 7:49 Green Arrow is on of Gordon’s Brothers,he an A3.

It's so weird how awdry tried to make him into a train

So much better than all engines go And honestly I need to buy the railway series books now but gosh dam 140 dollars on Amazon

Alaric’s personality is very reminiscent of my own. Only fitting since we share a name lol. Can confirm that we’re boring

7:41 didn’t Scotsman make it on screen in tenders for Henry and the great race?

Fun fact: The real 47111 was scrapped in 1987 after being crashed into by a Class 104 DMU that suffered a brake failure in 1986.

6:24 'Old Stuck Up' himself.

The Works Diesel is the very diesel that rescued James, in the final chapter of James and the Diesel Engines. That's laughably wrong, since Bear would've been given some development and be the very engine to make James end his hatred for diesels for good.

I Didn’t no that there was so many Railway series characters 👀

The example provided for the war department diesel is actually a petrol engine

Ministry of Defense Engine. Personally, just due to how wonderfully odd it is, I'm just going to imagine he's an Old Armored Motorail Simplex Petrol engine.

10:44 The scrap engine (the dude on the left watching his friend get chopped up) actually got featured in a Friday night Funkin mod called Thomas’ Railway Showdown which consisted of creepypastas such as Timothy the Ghost Engine and Slender Engine, Grimdark stories which include The Beast from Sodor Fallout and The Boiler Test and Memes like Thomas the Chav Engine and Tonic from the Sonic 1 rom hack called Thomas is everywhere. The scrap engine appears in the FreePlay with his own song. Don’t ask what the name is called because I think it would probably be self-explanatory. Highly recommend that you check it out regardless because it is a pretty impressive mod.

TrainBoy can you please make a video based on the loaned engines and what their class is?

3:58 what book is that?

10:00 ironically old king coal was the name of a boss in banjo tooie who arena was inside of a steam engine boiler and he was made of coal

2:30 we need this guy to be introduced and more about him in the fandom too. 😊

I love how in the fandom people adapt these characters in their own story

Wait... YOU POSTED THIS VIDEO ON MY BIRTHDAY!?!?!?!?!?! Wow.

0:37-0:41 my dude left out *JAMES* and he’s right fucking there with his homies!

9:06 Lol, would love to see a fan story with these guys.

Awdry got that trainsona

Bloomer is one of my favorites 4:54

To be quite honest, I REALLY wished some of these were televised because they’re so interesting!!!

Funny thing: There isn't a Mario 64 boss called Old King Coal, but there is a Banjo-Tooie boss by that name - the second boss, to be exact.

Old king coal was a boss in banjo tooie

The virgin Jock: - faces no real setbacks - is depicted as perfect in every way - barely appears in more than one story - shares a name with a type of men's underwear The chad Lord Harry/Patrick - becomes disgraced, then rebuilds his glory - is an intentionally flawed character - has two stories in which he is a central character - shares a name with a man whose life he saved (I'm joking, of course. I don't hate Jock, I just think he's a bit overrated.)

11:47 didnt they add stephensons Rocket into cgi off top of my head

Why are these so interesting?

Wilbert awdrys trainsona 3:58

You couldn't mention that Captain Baxter was in The Muppets Europe's Most Wanted?

Why does 7:29 - 7:32 kill me

I remember having a wooden railway d199 instead of d261 as a kid. Always confused about him until I read the books

Cmon Fred Pelhay You just gotta love em

Nice

There's so many interesting RWS characters that never made it to the TVS. Truly a shame I would've loved to have seen characters like Jock, Frank, Wilbert etc.

My favorites were always Bear & Barry I'd like a model of both but can't afford them :/

13:05 judging by the image you used (if it wasn't just a filler image) makes me wonder if Charlie and Billy could be from this railway... Oh god, they worked together on the same railway, no wonder why they were sent to Topham's railway instead.

according to the wiki it saids that the W&S Engines were Two Manning Wardle Tank Engines and a Sharp Steward Tank Engine that was rebuilt into a tender engine

Iron Duke is the RWS universes God of Destruction.

The Culdee Fell’s Back faces shoulda been their own character

Awdry has oc’s I find that funny and cute

I think Flying Scotsman, Bear and Spamcan would fit perfectly for Series 3 (1992) and The Mountain Engines would fit perfectly for Series 4 (1995).

Cool

Even as a kid I wished Jinty and Pug were featured in Thomas and the special letter. They could've literally taken Thomas and Percy, painted them black and made new faces.

I think it's funny how Wilbert has three self-inserts in The Railway Series.

Do you get to be a knight if you design a locomotive in Britain?

You did a lil goofy at 11:24 lol

LNER #1020 is going to be the main antagonist of a TTTE horror short film by the KZfaqr BlueSnowPlow. Its part of his tailspin horror series which is quite something else.

Does the Stephenson's Rocket still count thou since we got Stephen

Stevenson’s rocket is in the cgi series-

It was said there was 4 W&SR engines in the iOS book, we only know the classes of three of them 2 Manning wardle tanks, and a sharp stuart 0-6-0

Stephensons rocket is in RWS and CGI

i wish you could like the first line of a video description

Ah yes Greg Davies the tank engine

16 hours till this is 24 hours or 1 day old

I actually wrote a story for Jinty

All of these are pretty great and realistic But then you get Awdry... 💀