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Thomas The Tank Engine Film Characters
This is a list of all characters from films and specials in the ''Thomas & Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' is a British children's television series which aired from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021. Based on ''The Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher Awdry, Christopher, the series was developed for ...'' series. Introduced in ''The Great Discovery'' Introduced in ''The Great Race'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas & Friends film characters Anthropomorphic vehicles * Thomas & Friends film characters Thomas & Friends film characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas & Friends (franchise)
''Thomas & Friends'', formerly known as ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'', is a children's media franchise based on ''the Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and created by Britt Allcroft and owned by Mattel since 2012. The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives—including the titular main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine as well as other vehicles—who work on the Island of Sodor. In 1984, ''The Railway Series'' books were adapted into a television series initially titled ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends''. This ran for 24 series and had several feature-length specials produced during its run. A film adaptation, ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad,'' was released theatrically in 2000. After the television series ended in 2021, a reboot titled '' Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go'' began in the same year and concluded in 2025. A second theatrical film is in production at Mattel Films. History Background In 1942, two-year-old Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Railways
Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fourth List of countries by rail transport network size, largest national railway system by size with a track length of , running track length of and route length of . , 96.59% of the broad-gauge network is Railway electric traction, electrified. With more than 1.2 million employees, it is the world's List of companies by employees, ninth-largest employer and List of largest employers in India, India's second largest employer. In 1951, the Indian Railways was established by the amalgamation of 42 different railway companies operating in the country, spanning a total of . The railway network across the country was reorganized into six regional zones in 1951–52 for administrative purposes, which was gradually expanded to 18 zones over the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas & Friends Characters
This is a list of all characters from the British children's television series ''Thomas & Friends'' and the reboot series ''Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go''. Standard gauge engines Steam Team Current members Former members Other engines Narrow gauge engines Minimum gauge engines Rolling stock Non-rail vehicles Sodor Construction Company Humans and animals References {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas and Friends characters Fictional locomotives Television characters introduced in 1984 Thomas & Friends characters Lists of character lists Anthropomorphic vehicles Lists of characters in British television animation Thomas & Friends British railway-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropomorphic Vehicles
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather. Both have ancient roots as storytelling and artistic devices, and most cultures have traditional fables with anthropomorphized animals as characters. People have also routinely attributed human emotions and behavioral traits to wild as well as domesticated animals. Etymology Anthropomorphism and anthropomorphization derive from the verb form ''anthropomorphize'', itself derived from the Greek ''ánthrōpos'' (, "human") and ''morphē'' (, "form"). It is first attested in 1753, originally in reference to the heresy of applying a human form to the Christian God.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "anthropomorphism, ''n.''" Oxford University Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Railways 520 Class
The South Australian Railways 520 class, also known as "The Whispering Giants", is a class of streamliner 4-8-4 'Northern' type steam locomotive operated by the former South Australian Railways. The 520 class is one of the fastest Australian-built steam locomotives, with engine 520 holding a verified speed record of over 78mph on the Port Pirie line on 10 November 1943. History During the war years in the early 1940s, the South Australian Railways (SAR) had a desperate need for additional tractive power on increasingly growing troop and supply trains and with the combined need for quick acceleration and high speed running on the flat and generally straight mainlines to the north of Adelaide to Port Pirie, as well as power "under the belt" for the long , 1-in-45 (2.2%) graded slog up the Adelaide Hills to Melbourne, a new locomotive design was required by the SAR. With this in mind, the 520 class was commissioned, combining the better features of the earlier 500 and 620 class l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tender Locomotive
A tender is a special railroad car, rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood fuel, wood, coal, fuel oil, oil or torrefaction, torrefied biomass) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are necessary to keep them running over long distances. A locomotive that pulls a tender is called a tender locomotive. Locomotives that do not have tenders and carry all their fuel and water on board are called ''tank locomotives'' or ''tank engines''. A Gangway connection#Locomotives (corridor tenders), corridor tender is a locomotive tender with a passageway to one side, allowing crew changes on the fly. A brake tender is a tender that is heavy and used (primarily) to provide greater braking efficiency. General functions The largest steam locomotives are semi-permanently coupled by a Drawbar (haulage), drawbar to a tender that carries the water and fuel. The fuel source used depends on what is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Desai
Tina Desai is an Indian actress and model who works in both Indian and international projects. She debuted with the 2011 thriller '' Yeh Faasley'', before making her foreign debut in 2012 in the comedy-drama ''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''. She is also known for her main role in the Netflix series ''Sense8''. Early life Desai was born in Bangalore to a Gujarati father and a Telugu mother. She is a graduate in Business Management with a specialization in finance from the NIM. She is fluent in six languages—Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, English, Hindi and Punjabi. Career Desai began her career as a model and went on to feature in over 150 commercials and print campaigns. She participated in the reality show contest '' Get Gorgeous'' through which she was offered a contract with Elite Model India Management. She made her acting debut in 2011 in '' Yeh Faasley'', and shortly after, made her Hollywood debut in the film ''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''. She posed for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilgiri Mountain Railway X Class
The X class is a metre gauge rack and pinion compound locomotive used by the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. They are used on the section between Coonoor and Mettupalayam, where the line reaches a gradient of 8%. The railway uses the Abt system on these steep sections. The locomotives have two high-pressure and two low-pressure cylinders, located outside of their frames. The low-pressure cylinders drive the rack gears, and are positioned above the two main high-pressure cylinders, which drive the main wheels. This class of engine was acquired to replace the line's original Beyer, Peacock & Company rack locomotives, which were not powerful enough to handle the traffic. They were bought in two batches from the Swiss Locomotive & Machine Works, Winterthur, Switzerland. The first batch of twelve was delivered between 1914 and 1925, and the second batch of five was delivered in 1952. Four more members of the class were built in India between 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilgiri Mountain Railway
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR), colloquially called the "Toy Train" by locals, is a railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908. The railway is operated by the Southern Railway and is the only rack railway in India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR switched to diesel locomotives on the section between Mettupalyam and Udhagamandalam. Local people and visitors led a campaign to return to steam locomotives in this section. In July 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. The site then became known as Mountain Railways of India. History In 1854, plans were made to build a mountain railway from Mettupalayam to the Nilgiri Hills. However, it took the decision-makers 45 years to cut through the bureaucratic red tape and complete the construction. The line was completed and opened for traffic in June 1899. It was operated first by the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas & Friends
''Thomas & Friends'' is a British children's television series which aired from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021. Based on ''The Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher Awdry, Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft. The series centers on List of Thomas & Friends characters, various anthropomorphic engines as well as other vehicles living on the fictional Sodor (fictional island), Island of Sodor. Initially being filmed in live action on model sets, whereas the latter half of its run was produced using Computer-generated imagery, CGI, over 500 episodes were produced over the course of 24 series. In the United States, it was first broadcast along with the spin-off series, ''Shining Time Station'', on PBS' PTV Park block on 29 January 1989, while broadcast of the series did shift over time, it later aired on PBS Kids up until 2017. The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
