Miniature Engines

Four unnamed miniature engines appear in various books and magazine stories.

The Miniature Green Engine
The Miniature Green Engine is an engine which runs along a pier railway.

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Books

 * 1989 - Thomas's Big Book of Games and Puzzles

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Magazine Stories

 * 1993 - The New Railway!

The Miniature Red Engine
The Miniature Red Engine is an engine which runs a little line by the seaside. The engine has no face.

Biography
One rainy day, Oliver first saw the engine covered in rust on the back of a lorry. Due to a joke by Bill and Ben, he thought the engine had shrunk in the rain and was going to be scrapped. The next day, while at the Works, he was surprised to see the engine being repaired. The Fat Controller explained that the engine never was a big engine and he had saved it from the scrapyard to work on a seaside miniature railway.

Basis
The Miniature Red Engine does not appear to be based on any specific design. However, it bears some resemblance to "Katie", an engine from the Kirklees Light Railway.

Livery
The engine is painted red with yellow lining, a brass dome, and grey wheels.

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Magazine Stories

 * 1994 - Shrinking!

The Safari Park Engine
The Safari Park Engine is a minimum gauge tank engine that works at the Safari Park, pulling the Safari Park Special. The engine has no face.

Biography
The Safari Park Engine first came to Sodor on a ship from the Mainland, and was taken by Thomas from the Big Harbour to the the Works. Gordon, James and Daisy initially made rude remarks about the engine due to it being rusty, old and too small to run on their lines.

Two weeks later, Thomas was called back to the Works to take the engine to the Safari Park, where it ran the Safari Park Special service. Soon, word of the Safari Park Special spread, and the other engines became jealous of the little engine because of its important job.

Basis
The Safari Park Engine appears to be a freelance design.

Livery
The Safari Park Engine is painted red with a white running board. Its lining and dome are gold. Following restoration, the engine was given a gold headboard above its smokebox reading "SAFARI PARK SPECIAL".

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Magazine Stories

 * 1995 - Safari Park Special!

The Tiny Blue Engine
The Tiny Blue Engine is a rideable miniature engine that appeared in the Magazine Story The Tiny Engine. Stephen and Bridget Hatt saw this engine at a water park.

Basis
The Tiny Blue Engine does not appear to be based on any specific design. However, it bears some resemblance to "The Monarch", an engine on the Eastleigh Lakeside Railway which has often been used to represent Gordon for the railway's Day Out with Thomas events.

Livery
The Tiny Blue Engine is painted blue with red lining.

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 * The Tiny Engine