The North Western Railway has had certain visiting engines visit Sodor over the years, engines ranging from Flying Scotsman, Mallard, City of Truro, Stirling, Evening Star, Kirtley, Hardewick, Johnson, Tornado, Prince of Wales and many others! Some characters may already have wiki pages but those who don't, they will be here!
Contents
- 1 Background:
- 2 Companies that the NWR allows:
- 3 Agreements:
- 4 Rules:
- 5 Occasions for them to visit:
- 6 Wellsworth Castle:
- 6.1 Biography:
- 6.2 Personality:
- 6.3 Appearances:
- 6.4 Technical Details:
- 6.5 Voice:
- 6.6 Trivia:
- 7 Toby:
- 7.1 Biography:
- 7.2 Personality:
- 7.3 Appearances:
- 7.4 Technical Details:
- 7.5 Voice:
- 7.6 Trivia:
- 8 King George V:
- 8.1 Biography:
- 8.2 Personality:
- 8.3 Appearances:
- 8.4 Technical Details:
- 8.5 Voice:
- 8.6 Trivia
- 9 The Royal Highlander:
- 9.1 Biography:
- 9.2 Personality:
- 9.3 Appearances:
- 9.4 Technical Details:
- 9.5 Voice:
- 9.6 Trivia:
- 10 King Edward II:
- 10.1 Biography:
- 10.2 Personality:
- 10.3 Appearances:
- 10.4 Technical Details:
- 10.5 Voice:
- 10.6 Trivia:
- 11 King Edward VII:
- 11.1 Biography:
- 11.2 Personality:
- 11.3 Appearances:
- 11.4 Technical Details:
- 11.5 Voice:
- 11.6 Trivia:
- 12 Lechlade Manor:
- 13 Defiant:
- 14 847:
- 15 Lizzie:
- 16 King George:
- 17 The Loaned Engines of the 1920's:
- 17.1 Shane:
- 17.2 Erica:
- 17.3 Darren:
- 17.4 Rosamund:
- 17.5 Jacob:
- 17.6 Vincent:
- 17.7 David:
- 18 Other Visitors:
- 18.1 Sunny:
- 18.2 Rowan:
Background:[]
Companies that the NWR allows:[]
- The National Railway Museum in York
- The A1 Trust
- The Castle Society
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Wellsworth Castle:[]
Wellsworth Castle is GWR 4073 Class or Castle Class, named after The Wellsworth Castle on Sodor.
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The origins of this highly successful design date back to the Star Class of 1907 which introduced the basic 4-cylinder 4-6-0 layout with long-travel valves and Belpaire firebox that was to become characteristic of Great Western Railway (GWR) express passenger locomotives. The Star class was designed to take the top express trains on the GWR, with 61 in service by 1914, but after World War I there was a need for an improved design. To meet this need, Chief Mechanical Engineer George Churchward had in mind an enlarged Star class design with a standard No.7 boiler, as fitted to his GWR 4700 Class express freight 2-8-0. However, this combination would have taken the axle load over the 20-ton limit then set by the civil engineers, and in the end, nothing came of the idea.
Charles Collett succeeded Churchward as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR in 1922 and immediately set about meeting the need for a new locomotive design that would both supplement the Stars and replace them on the heaviest expresses. Collett's solution was to take the basic layout of the Star with an extended frame, and add a newly designed No.8 boiler which was both larger and lighter. The increased amount of steam that this produced allowing an increase in the cylinder diameter from 15 in × 26 in (381 mm × 660 mm) to 16 in × 26 in (406 mm × 660 mm). The extended frame allowed for a side window cab and an increased grate area. The result was an increase in tractive effort to 31,625 lb, and a locomotive that looked attractive and well proportioned while remaining within the 20-ton axle limit.
Unlike the Star class, there was no prototype. Collett was sufficiently confident of the design to place an order with Swindon Works (Lot 224) for ten locomotives in 1923, although there was a four-month delay between the appearance of the first example in August 1923 and the second in December, to allow for the correction of any teething problems. Thereafter the remaining eight locomotives came out at regular intervals until April 1924. They were 4073–4082, the number series continuing unbroken from the Star class. The last 12 Star class locomotives, which were built in 1922–23, had been given names of abbeys in the western area served by the GWR. The new locomotives were named after castles, also in the west, beginning with Caerphilly Castle.
Over the twenty-seven years from August 1923 to August 1950, 155 Castles were built new at Swindon Works and a further sixteen were converted from other classes. In February 1952, two engines, 4082 Windsor Castle and 7013 Bristol Castle, swapped names and numbers: 7013 was disguised as 4082 to run George VI's funeral train and the numbers were never swapped back. 4082 was withdrawn from service in 1964 as 7013 and 7013 was withdrawn from service as 4082 in 1965.
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Toby:[]
Tobias "Toby" is a GWR 1500 class
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King George V:[]
King George V is a GWR King Class
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The Royal Highlander:[]
The Royal Highlander is a Royal Scot
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King Edward II:[]
King Edward II is a GWR King Class
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King Edward VII:[]
King Edward VII is a GWR King Class
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Lechlade Manor:[]
Lechlade Manor is a 7800 Class or Manor Class
Defiant:[]
Defiant is GWR 4073 Class or Castle Class
847:[]
847 is a GWR 517
Lizzie:[]
Lizzie is a GWR 1400
King George:[]
King George is a red Saddle Tank
Shane:[]
Shane is a NBR Class 224 who was on loan to the NWR
Erica:[]
Erica is a GNR A2 who was on loan to the NWR
Darren:[]
Darren is a Midland Railway 1252 Class who was on loan to the NWR
Rosamund:[]
Rosamund is a GNR Ivatt B1 who was on loan to the NWR
Jacob:[]
Jacob is a Midland Railway Class 2 who was on loan to the NWR
Vincent:[]
Vincent is a NER Class S3 who was on loan to the NWR
David:[]
David is a GNR Class H4 who was on loan to the NWR
Sunny:[]
Sunny is a flying buffer beam engine who has visited the island of Sodor with her friend Rowan
Rowan:[]
Rowan is a Brown Garret engine who visits the Island with his friend Sunny
