Vicarstown Tramway Engines

The Vicarstown Tramway Engines were a set of three engines which were intended to run the Vicarstown Tramway.

According to Ian McCue, the three trams were initially created as part of an early story idea entitled 'Controller at Sea' (which later evolved into the 2018 movie Big World! Big Adventures!). The idea was put on hold, however the team were still keen to create the station at Vicarstown for The Great Race. Due to the movie's scope and the number of new assets which needed to be created for it, there was not enough budget to create the trams.

It had been hoped by McCue that they would be able to come back to the idea in subsequent series, however this ultimately never happened due to the original television series being replaced by Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go after its twenty-fourth series.

Personality
An early concept for Controller at Sea states the following:

"The Vicarstown Trams could be busy urban, jokey characters, who love to tease the big engines as they come into the city. They love to gossip, exchange quips and wind up the big engines, who they think they are much more clever than. They travel on rails at street level or above and running alongside or nipping over or under the mainline the other engines are travelling along."

Basis
It is unknown what exactly the tram engines would have been based on, although concept art shows that they would have been double-decker trams with overhead electric equipment.

Appearances
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Specials

 * 2016 - The Great Race

The trams were also intended to appear in a special titled Controller at Sea, which later evolved into Big World! Big Adventures!