Elsie

Elsie is a small luggage van who works with Toby, Henrietta, Victoria and the Quarryman's Coach.

Biography
Prior to coming to the Island of Sodor, Elsie worked with Toby and Henrietta on a tramway in East Anglia. After the tramway closed, Elsie was brought with Toby and Henrietta to the North Western Railway. Elsie is generally shedded overnight at Knapford Sheds with Toby and Henrietta.

Basis
Elsie is based on the Great Eastern Railway (GER) Wisbech and Upwell Tramway luggage van No. 9.

Livery
Elsie is painted brown with a dark grey rooftop. Her buffer beams are painted red. When she became part of the North Western Railway, the initials "NW" were painted on her sides in yellow.

Appearances
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Companion Volumes

 * 1972 - The Railway Series: Surprise Packet
 * 1979 - Annual
 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways
 * 1995 - The Thomas the Tank Engine Man
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Magazines

 * Elsie was mentioned in a January 2011 fact file about Toby.

Trivia

 * Elsie was created by the Rev. W. Awdry, but was not featured in any book of The Railway Series. A model of her, however, was part of the Rev. W. Awdry's model layout of Thomas' Branch Line. Elsie was mentioned in The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, and also appeared in The Railway Series: Surprise Packet.
 * Elsie was named after the Elsenham and Thaxted Light Railway, to which the real No. 9 was transferred from the Wisbech and Upwell in 1926.

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