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| Date | 13 Dec, 2008 |
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| How did you find us? | Web |
| Message | I like this site. Can u add me in here? It would be a great idea... Jenn Hi Jenn. I've sent you my email address if you wish to contribute anything. Cheers, Martin |
| Date | 25 Nov, 2008 |
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| Message | Dear Martin, What a fantastic site! Started researching Thomas after my 4 year old son became an avid watcher of the TV shows. I have a Lionel G scale Thomas and James. I could send some pictures of James, Annie Clarabel and teh troublesome trucks if you like (I saw you have Thomas already...) Keep up the great work. Dave. |
| Date | 19 Nov, 2008 |
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| Message | What a fantastic resource! Every interesting read indeed. Keep up the good work. |
| Date | 06 Nov, 2008 |
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| Message | Building large Thomas layout and decided to research both models and prototypes. Why haven't I stumbled across this brilliant site before?! I am also collecting the early Hornby Thomas and Friends sets etc. If anyone has any info on these early (1984>)sets I would appreciate it. |
| Date | 30 Oct, 2008 |
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| Message | Interesting site. I have been told that Oliver is based on 1466 that is preserved at Didcot having been saved from the scrap man, this is before the publication in 1968 of the first book it appears in, a year before the South Devon opened. |
| Date | 25 Oct, 2008 |
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| How did you find us? | Google Search |
| Message | I Like It !! |
| Date | 23 Oct, 2008 |
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| How did you find us? | wikipeadia |
| Message | this is very intresting site and i can lrean a lot from it. |
| Date | 20 Oct, 2008 |
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| How did you find us? | Linked from another site |
| Message | This site has brought back many happy memories of Thomas etc which are now being passed onto my great nephews. I was disappointed to note that, in the locations that inspired the Rev Awdry section, I cannot see a mention of the Wisbech and Upwell Tram Way that provided the inspiration for Toby. This line ,now defunct,used to cover the relatively short distance from Upwell,in Norfolk to Wisbech,in Cambridgeshire,carrying agriculural produce out.It also carryied coal to Upwell where it was loaded onto barges for transportation deeper into the Fens. I used to watch the tram,diesel by then,trundling along from my Grandfather's house in Wisbech,in the 50'and early 60's,when I was quite young. The Rev Awdry spent some time in Emneth,a nearby parish,in the 50's and 60's and cannot have avoided being influenced by this Tram way in the creation of Toby and later Mavis. The J70 Steam tram is clearly Toby and Mavis,the shunter, is drawn like the Wisbech and Upwell diesels,with cow catcher,black paint scheme and wasp stripes. If I am mistaken ,my apologies. Yours sincerely Stephen Ransome |
Private Message added 13 Oct, 2008 |
| Date | 26 Sep, 2008 |
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| How did you find us? | How Things Work |
| Message | Thanks for your very informative site! I would like permission to have a link to it from my website. I sell Thomas toys and books in my shop in Canada and people complain: "But these aren't like real trains. These are Thomas." "But they are real trains, real trains in the UK," I tell them. "Just with faces." "Oh, but they don't paint them those colours!" "Yes! They do!" It's great that with this website I can prove it to them! You don't happen to know why Canadian and American steam engines look like they just came from a funeral do you? Dear Sara, thanks for your message and please feel free to add a link. The default colour of steam engines on both sides of the Atlantic is black for a very good reason - they get dirty very quickly. In the UK, the colourful engines were generally passenger locomotives which were turned out attractively for their customers and match their rolling stock (coaches). This might in part have originated from the colourful horse-drawn coaches which they replaced. Contrast this with goods locos and also immediately after WWII when "austerity" cut corners on the pre-war cleaning and painting schedules. Some of the crack passenger express locos in the US came in fetching silver liveries, for the same reason. Finally I must mention the US Southern Railway (now part of the Norfolk Southern), whose president Fairfax Harrison visited his UK counterpart (also called the Southern Railway) in 1925 and was inspired to break out of the customary US black to paint his new batch of PS4 Pacifics in a shade mixing the UK SR's Olive Green (also called Maunsell Green), and the LNER's lighter Apple Green, which he called "Virginia Green", with gold lettering and similarly the word SOUTHERN on the tenders, a livery which became popular and soon spread to other classes of loco on the railway. Hope this answers your query, and once again thanks for your kind words. Best, Martin |
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