History Characters / SodorTheEarlyYears

* ReplacementGoldfish: He was like this to Gordon for a few episodes.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: He's really 16 from Wilbert The Forest Engine, and is also meant to be the Austerity Engine that the Fat Controller mentioned at the end of the same book.]]

This page is for the characters that are from ''WebAnimation/SodorTheEarlyYears''. Any characters that were from the Railway Series and Televsion series can be seen [[Characters/TheRailwaySeries here]] and [[Characters/ThomasAndFriends here]].

* GreenAndMean: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: When he realises he doesn't understand the railway, he resigns and takes a job with a bank in Copenhagen.

* ReplacementGoldfish: He took up Bear's place in 'Super Rescue'. This was because there was no model of Bear at the time.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While very young, Simon proves himself to be a very reasonable and intelligent young man, diffusing an impatient driver's agitation about being late due to accident by pointing out how he was only increasing the delay by bothering the workmen. [[spoiler: He also shows himself to be a truly caring royal, making the effort to help stop a train at risk of running into a landslide by waving it down with his umbrella. It's this incident that helps him and Duke break the ice.]]

A young man that Adeline and Duke first meet during an accident with a lorry. [[spoiler: He's revealed to be the current Earl of Sodor, but comes into conflict with [[TheGenerationalGap Duke due to their different sensibilities.]] The problems end up being much more deeply tied into Duke's abandonment issues and Simon's ignorance of the family's traditions regarding the old engine, resulting in them barely being able to tolerate each other's presence. It is eventually patched up once Duke begins to see Simon's better qualities.]]]]

A young man that Adeline and Duke first meet during an accident with a lorry. [[spoiler: He's revealed to be the current Earl of Sodor, but comes into conflict with [[TheGenerationalGap Duke due to their different sensibilities.]]]]

* TheGenerationalGap: Partly PlayedForLaughs. Duke is less than impressed by Simon's taste in music. This ends up being played much more seriously however once Duke finds out Simon's true identity [[spoiler: as the new Earl of Sodor. The problems end up being much more deeply tied into Duke's abandonment issues and Simon's ignorance of the family's traditions regarding the old engine, resulting in them barely being able to tolerate each other's presence. It is eventually patched up once Duke begins to see Simon's better qualities.]]

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Simon in truth feels immense uncertainty and pressure about being in his position [[spoiler: as the new Earl of Sodor]], given he didn't expect to get it so early in his life, barely being 30 years old in his words. He ends up striking up a friendship with Duek to lean on his years of wisdom and knowledge about past Earls.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Simon in truth feels immense uncertainty and pressure about being in his position [[spoiler: as the new Earl of Sodor]], given he didn't expect to get it so early in his life, barely being 30 years old. He ends up striking up a friendship with Duek to lean on his years of wisdom and knowledge about past Earls.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Simon ends up unintentionally getting on Duke's nerves due to his modern sensibilities and tastes, but one of the bigger things that ends up really hurting Duke's feelings is that [[spoiler: as the Earl of Sodor, it's typical for them to visit Duke, something which Simon has not done. [[JustifiedTrope Justified, as no one had told him that this was a tradition, and the sheer unexpectedness of suddenly being the Earl of Sodor had caused the tradition to slip between the cracks. After he and Duke patch things up, Simon makes it a point to truly codify visiting Duke as a family tradition to ensure it won't be forgotten again.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She gives a short, but poignant one to Duke after he acts rude and nasty towards the descendant of his namesake, pointing out that while she might be sad to have lost her own history and past, at the least she wasn't stuck living in the past like him. He's utterly flabbergasted and ashamed of his behavior.

* AndIMustScream: Adeline was stuck under the Iron Bridge after her sacrifice, completely submerged and rusted away but still alive.

* HeroicSacrifice: She takes a train of volatile gunpowder wagons and prevents them from hitting and killing the other engines, at the cost of falling into the swamps at the bottom of the Iron Bridge. While she survives, she is trapped there for decades, and the other engines believed she had died.

This page is for the characters that are from ''Machinima/SodorTheEarlyYears''. Any characters that were from the Railway Series and Televsion series can be seen [[Characters/TheRailwaySeries here]] and [[Characters/ThomasAndFriends here]].

* AscendedExtra: You see, Alfred was 98462 from the original Railway Series and is one of the engines were very rude to Edward in the first book, but was never seen again after that. Around 2009, a Website/YouTube user named Skarloey123 created a fan series called ''Machinima/SodorDarkTimes'', which was a [[AlternateUniverse alternative reality]] take if the series went dark. The main antagonist was Alfred, who was a mad bomber psychopath who wanted revenge on the engines of Sodor, and later reveled to be 98462. Alfred in this series is depicted as he was in before. However, the creator changed him into someone who was just a jerk to Gordon.

An engine that was built for Sir Walter in 2006, but after his death in 2009, Olivia was sent to work at the Arlsedale Railway.

The original number 7 of the Skarloey Line, Adeline was an oil burning engine brought in for work with the Ministry of Défense's munitions dump. She was lost in what appeared to be a tragic accident but many questions surround that event.

* DueToTheDead: Her tragic accident explains why Ivo Hugh is number 7 instead of Duke, who arrived long before he was built. Adeline was lost not long before Duke arrived so the number 7 was retired until Ivo was built 40 years later, at which point they felt enough time had passed.

* BigBad: Of ''Winds Of Change''. He planned to modernize the North Western Railway by sending every steam engine off to heritage railways, museums, or scrapyards, and replacing them all with diesels.

* TeamMum: Even before she [[spoiler: became the fat controller]], Miss Hatt has maintained a gentle and caring influence on the NWR engines.

* ProperLady: Lampshaded by Gordon at one point.

This page is for the characters that are from ''Machinima/SodorTheEarlyYears''. Any characters that were from the Railway Series and Televsion series can be seen [[Characters/TheRailwaySeries here]] and [[Characters/ThomasTheTankEngine here]].

** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: is returning in the mini series, ''Couriers and Concerns'']]

* RejectedApology: She blames Henry for indirectly causing Colin's accident with the houses back in 1923, and had Henry came out of the tunnel, all of this would've been prevented. Despite Henry's apology and explaining his change, Lily refused to listen to reason, and still holds a grudge against him.