trainman7616
Western Maryland Addict
Look, I hate thomas and friends because its childish at best. But maybe this will shut you all up about it.
Awdry says in The Island of Sodor that his best-known creation, Thomas, is a class E2 0-6-0 tank engine from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; the Fat Controller acquired him as a result of some nifty accounting following World War I.
Thomas (left) from a stamp marking WV Awdry's centenary, and the E2 engine on which he is based.Very few of the E2 class were built, and even fewer have the forward extension to the side water tanks which Thomas has.
Thomas first appeared in the second Railway Series book in 1946, in which he is employed moving the carriages for the trains at a big station.
That station with its double arched roof looks quite like Brighton, which would make sense for an engine from the LB&SCR.
Awdry says in The Island of Sodor that his best-known creation, Thomas, is a class E2 0-6-0 tank engine from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; the Fat Controller acquired him as a result of some nifty accounting following World War I.
Thomas first appeared in the second Railway Series book in 1946, in which he is employed moving the carriages for the trains at a big station.
That station with its double arched roof looks quite like Brighton, which would make sense for an engine from the LB&SCR.
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