Vicarstown (T&F)/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Vicarstown is a fictional town on the east coast of the Island of Sodor created by the Reverend W. Awdry. It is the last station on The Main Line before crossing the bridge to the Mainland.

The town's name is derived from Vickerstown, a real town on the Isle of Walney, which it replaces on maps of Sodor.

The station first appeared in the special The Great Race, which was released in 2016. Its last appearance was in the twenty-fourth series episode Thomas' Animal Friends, which was released in 2021.

CGI Model
In 2009, the series introduced Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. Although it had been mentioned by name several times since the seventeenth series, Vicarstown did not make a physical appearance until it was modelled in full CGI by Arc Productions in 2015 for the 2016 film, The Great Race. The models were "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software.