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** Between the events of "Down the Mine" and "Paint Pots and Queens", Thomas has his branch line taken away from him as punishment for ignoring the warning sign ahead of the mine.
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* WhoIsDriving: There are two occasions when an engine has no driver.
** In "Old Iron", two boys set James moving, and jump out: James is horrified when he realises that he has no driver. The signalman sees this happen, and a chase ensues with Edward running alongside James, with a driver trying to climb across to James's cab.
** In "Thomas comes to Breakfast", Thomas decides to creep outside the shed, and "wheesh" loudly to make the others jump. He believes he can move by himself, but this only happens because a careless cleaner had meddled with his controls. He then finds himself moving along unable to stop, and crashes into the station master's house, while he and his family are having breakfast.
** In "Old Iron", two boys set James moving, and jump out: James is horrified when he realises that he has no driver. The signalman sees this happen, and a chase ensues with Edward running alongside James, with a driver trying to climb across to James's cab.
** In "Thomas comes to Breakfast", Thomas decides to creep outside the shed, and "wheesh" loudly to make the others jump. He believes he can move by himself, but this only happens because a careless cleaner had meddled with his controls. He then finds himself moving along unable to stop, and crashes into the station master's house, while he and his family are having breakfast.
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*** Unless, of course, Mrs. Kyndley ''was'' [[FridgeBrilliance one of the Railway Children]]...
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* TheAgeless: {{Sentient Vehicle}}s can live as long as they're taken care of; Skarloey and Rheneas were built in the mid-19th century and are still kicking over 100 years later. However, many steam engines have met an early demise due to scrapping.
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* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The Awdrys were renowned sticklers for railway realism, and it regularly shows in the books where rules and mechanics are generally accurate to real life to a tee....with the obvious exception that the engines are sentient and have big cartoon faces where their smokebox lids should be. Very regularly when the engine's behaviour must contradict how a real railway works, the writer will often mention tongue-in-cheek, either through the narrative or in the opening footnote, that real railways obviously wouldn't run in such a way.
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* MutuallyFictional: ''The Railway Series'' has a DirectLineToTheAuthor; the {{Kayfabe}} is that the Rev. Wilbert Awdry has really visited Sodor and writes about events he heard about or witnessed there. ''Thomas and the Great Railway Show'' reveals that ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' exists as an in-universe TV show that's an adaptation of these books. Then, towards the end of ''Thomas & Friends''[='=] run, it's revealed that Wilbert Awdry and ''The Railway Series'' exists in that universe as well, which means that both continuities exist as BasedOnATrueStory works within each other.
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** In contrast to the anti-left sentiment above, there's a subtle dig at Margaret Thatcher in ''The Island of Sodor'' lore book: Sir Handel Brown, the narrow gauge engine's namesake, is mentioned as continuing to fund an unprofitable slate mine no matter what it cost him for the sake of his people. The book was published only a few years after Thatcher closed unprofitable mines all over the country.
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* NewhartPhoneCall: One of these is described in ''Gordon the Big Engine'', when the Fat Controller receives some alarming news by telephone.
--> '''Fat Controller:''' So Gordon didn't want to take the Special and ran into a ditch?... What's that you say?... The Special's waiting... tell Edward to take it please, and Gordon?... Oh leave him where he is, we haven't time to bother with him now.
--> '''Fat Controller:''' So Gordon didn't want to take the Special and ran into a ditch?... What's that you say?... The Special's waiting... tell Edward to take it please, and Gordon?... Oh leave him where he is, we haven't time to bother with him now.
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* PsychoticSmirk: In "Dirty Work", Diesel smirks in triumph when he succeeds in his plan to have Duck sent away.
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** There was a huge presence of generic engines, particularly in 'The Three Railway Engines' in which the shed is occupied by a large red engine and two blue tender engines. In ''James the Red Engine'', James is heckled by a tank engine for his incident with the bootlace. Although this tank engine is unseen in the original book, he appears in a pop-up book retelling of 'Troublesome Trucks', in which he is portrayed as a green saddle tank and looks similar to Percy.
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** There was a huge presence of generic engines, particularly in 'The ''The Three Railway Engines' Engines'' in which the shed is occupied by a large red engine and two blue tender engines. In ''James the Red Engine'', James is heckled by a tank engine for his incident with the bootlace. Although this tank engine is unseen in the original book, he appears in a pop-up book retelling of 'Troublesome Trucks', in which he is portrayed as a green saddle tank and looks similar to Percy.
