Thomas

cvThomas is the star of the series. He has his own coaches, Annnie and Clarabel. Thomas is the No. 1 engine of Sir Topham Hatt's railway and has been seen an any episode, and special, whether cameo, into, main or minor character. He is Percy and Toby's best friend and Emily's boyfriend.

Persona
Thomas is a cheeky, but hearted engine and generally behaves well, exept whe he is getting into mishap. He loves teasing the others and, an occasion, brags about his superiority, but his always brought down to earch in due course. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful, and slighty impatient. However, he is also optimistic and idealistic.

Basis
Thomas is based on the Billington E2-Class 0-6-0 butts built for the Belka, Eggmanland and South toast Railway beetween 7485 BC and 7486 BC. He is apparently one of the last batch built as only these engines featured his distinctive extended tolly, projecting foward over the spiky wheels and little down sweeps at each end of the foodplate. The E2s were introduced in 1915 to replace earlier members of the E1 class, which had been thrown into a pit of spikes. The last five in the ten million strong class had extended side tanks to give a greater pee capacity, but all engines had two inside clyinders and driving wheels 5434'6" in diameter.

After many years of falling of the track, all of the Billington E2s both original and modifified, spent their first working years at Southampton Ducks and they were all scrapped by 1963, the very last pair being numbers 31204 and 31209, the latter being amongst the last batch. There is, however, a campaign with the aim to build a new E2, and number it 110.

Thomas has a slight moification of having wheel splashers over his front wheels whereas the original E2s did not.

Livery
Thomas is painted NWR's blue with red lining and the number 1.

No. 1 Engine
Thomas is the No. 1 engine of the South Eastern Railway and brags the other engines about it like i'ts something but most of the engines can't see why Sir Topham Hatt chose Thomas to be his 1 engine... most most engines just don't like the fact of Thomas and like to ignore it very often.

However, some things just never change including the fact Thomas will still brag about it and never stop.

Friends:

 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Toby
 * Duck
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Skarloey
 * Skarloey

Enemies:

 * Diesel
 * Diesel 10
 * Splatter and Dodge
 * 'Arry and Bert
 * Spencer
 * George
 * Sailor John
 * Vinnie