The Spiteful Brake Van (RWS)

The Spiteful Brake Van was a troublesome brake van, who was subsequently crushed into pieces by Douglas on the back of James' goods train.

Biography
The brake van took an instant dislike to Douglas and purposely delayed his trains, with Douglas subsequently being the one directly and unfairly blamed. Donald, angry for how his brother was being treated by the brake van, bumped him violently to teach him a lesson. The brake van would then behave better for several days.

However, the brake van's attitude adjustment was short-lived after Donald ran into the signal box at Knapford. With Donald indisposed, the brake van no longer took his threats seriously and continued his old tricks when he was saddled with James. Douglas, as a result, had to help James up Gordon's Hill. James was short of steam and the brake van was soon squeezed between both the troublesome trucks and Douglas. By Douglas' force, he subsequently crushed the brake van into pieces. The brake van never got rebuilt after that and was scrapped.

Ever since then, the Troublesome Trucks have never forgotten the brake van incident and they do not dare play tricks on neither Donald nor Douglas. It had been an accident really, but no one told the trucks that and the trucks thought that Douglas smashed him on purpose. Because of this, Donald and Douglas have transformed goods traffic on the Main Line quite easily.

Personality
Like the Troublesome Trucks and as his name implies, the Spiteful Brake Van was spiteful, very rude, disrespectful and incredibly impolite to the engines, especially Donald and Douglas.

Basis
The Spiteful Brake Van was based on an North Eastern Railway (NER) Diagram V4 10 ton brake van.

Livery
The Spiteful Brake Van was painted grey with the initials "N W" painted on his sides in white. Below is his number 13 and "20T", also painted on his sides in white.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * The Twin Engines - Break Van and The Deputation

Companion Volumes

 * 1972 - The Railway Series: Surprise Packet
 * 1976 - Famous Engines
 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways
 * 1990 - Annual
 * 1995 - Thomas the Tank Engine Book Club
 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection
 * 2005 - Sodor: Reading Between the Lines }}

Official Description
1999-2001= From Official Media:

Trivia

 * The underside of the Spiteful Brake Van's Wooden Railway toy and its accompanying character card refer to him as "NW Brakevan".
 * The Spiteful Brake Van's number is a nod to superstition about the number 13 being unlucky, as seemingly every engine who pulls him has bad luck.

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway