Snowploughs (T&F)

Snowploughs (UK) or Snowplows (US) are devices used by the engines to clear snow from the tracks as they pull their trains during winter. They are usually fastened onto the engine's front buffers and push the snow aside when the engines run through it. Most snowploughs are painted in the colour corresponding to their engine's livery.

Some engines are known to hate their snowploughs as they tend to be heavy and uncomfortable, such as the case with Thomas. Eventually though, he got used to his snowplough after the seventeenth series episode, No Snow for Thomas, though he does still complain about it in later episodes.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends
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 * Series 1 - Thomas, Terence and the Snow and Thomas' Christmas Party
 * Series 2 - Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree
 * Series 3 - Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
 * Series 5 - Snow
 * Series 6 - It's Only Snow
 * Series 7 - Not So Hasty Puddings
 * Series 8 - Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough and Don't Tell Thomas
 * Series 9 - Thomas and the Statue and Keeping Up with James
 * Series 10 - Thomas and the Shooting Star
 * Series 11 - Henry's Lucky Day
 * Series 13 - Snow Tracks
 * Series 15 - Percy the Snowman
 * Series 16 - Ho Ho Snowman
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas and Santa's Little Engine
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas and Duncan the Humbug
 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home and The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, Love Me Tender, The Railcar and the Coaches, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze, Terence Breaks the Ice and Confused Coaches
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark, Kangaroo Christmas and Hunt the Truck
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea and Cleo's First Snow
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Annual Stories

 * 1986 - Lost in the Snow
 * 1993 - Thomas and the Snow Block

Magazine Stories

 * 1987 - Thomas, Terence and the Snow and Thomas's Christmas Party
 * 1988 - A Special Christmas Santa
 * 1990 - Cold Christmas and Christmas Greetings
 * 1991 - Diesel and the Snow
 * 1993 - Snow on the Line
 * 1998 - Christmas Crisis
 * 2001 - Pulling the Post, Skating Show! and Slow for Snow
 * 2005 - Slide and Ride
 * 2006 - Snow Shapes and The Carol Concert
 * 2010 - Saving Santa! and Christmas Dinner Diner
 * 2011 - Snow Play

Books

 * 1988 - Thomas and the Lost Cat
 * 2000 - Thomas' Railway Word Book
 * 2001 - Thomas in the Snow
 * 2004 - Thomas Gets a Snowplow
 * 2008 - Valentine's Day in Vicarstown
 * 2012 - Sound Storybook Treasury
 * 2016 - A Valentine for Percy and Dustin Comes in First

My Thomas Story Library

 * 2003 - Terence
 * 2010 - The Snowy Surprise

Engine Adventures
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 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas
 * 2017 - The Snowy Surprise

Merchandise

 * Ertl Company
 * Wooden Railway
 * Take Along
 * Push Along
 * TrackMaster
 * Motor Road and Rail
 * Capsule Plarail
 * Bachmann
 * Thomas Engine Collection Series
 * Pocket Fantasy

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends
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 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 11 - Henry's Lucky Day
 * Series 12 - James Works it Out
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home and The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze
 * Series 22 - Hunt the Truck

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Thomas & Friends
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 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home and The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, The Railcar and the Coaches, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
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Magazine Stories

 * 2001 - Snow Fun for Henry

Engine Adventures

 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends
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 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 13 - Snow Tracks
 * Series 15 - Percy the Snowman
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas
 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, Love Me Tender, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze and Confused Coaches
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark and Hunt the Truck
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends
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 * Series 6 - It's Only Snow
 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 11 - Henry's Lucky Day
 * Series 15 - Percy the Snowman
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas and Santa's Little Engine
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea
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Engine Adventures

 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster

Appearances
Television Series= {{Scroll box|

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 11 - Henry's Lucky Day
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home and The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea

Videos
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 * 2019 - Meet Percy
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Annual Stories

 * 1989 - Post Early for Christmas

Magazine Stories

 * 2010 - Percy Ploughs In!

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway
 * Take-n-Play

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 6 - Toby Had a Little Lamb
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy

Merchandise

 * Pocket Fantasy

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 2 - The Deputation and Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree
 * Series 3 - Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
 * Series 20 - Love Me Tender
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Annual Stories

 * 2000 - Donald and Douglas

Magazine Stories

 * 2001 - Midnight Mavis

My Thomas Story Library

 * 2003 - Donald and Douglas and Terence

Merchandise

 * Motor Road and Rail

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor
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Engine Adventures

 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas

Appearances
Television Series= {{Scroll box|

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 8 - Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough
 * Series 9 - Keeping Up with James
 * Series 17 - No Snow for Thomas
 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa, The Railcar and the Coaches and The Christmas Coffeepot
 * Series 21 - The Big Freeze
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea

Videos
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 * 2019 - Meet Emily
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Engine Adventures

 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster

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Magazine Stories

 * 1989 - Diesel's Christmas

Appearances
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Magazine Stories

 * 2001 - A Special Story About Stepney

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 21 - Confused Coaches

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 19 - The Beast of Sodor

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 18 - Last Train for Christmas
 * Series 20 - Letters to Santa
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Engine Adventures

 * 2016 - The Last Train for Christmas

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 15 - Percy the Snowman

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Specials

 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Appearances
Television Series=
 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea

Specials

 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Videos

 * 2019 - Meet Nia

Merchandise

 * Push Along

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 22 - Thomas' Animal Ark and Hunt the Truck
 * Series 23 - Panicky Percy
 * Series 24 - Nia's Bright Idea

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 24 - Yong Bao and the Tiger

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 23 - The Other Big Engine
 * Series 24 - Thomas and the Forest Engines

Victor's Snowplough
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 1 - Thomas' Christmas Party
 * Series 3 - Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
 * Series 5 - Rusty and the Boulder
 * Series 6 - The Fogman
 * Series 7 - Toby's Windmill and Not So Hasty Puddings

Specials

 * 2008 - The Great Discovery

Music Videos
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 * Series 4 - Don't Judge a Book By its Cover
 * Series 5 - The Snow Song and Harold the Helicopter
 * Series 6 - Winter Wonderland
 * The Great Discovery - Where, oh Where is Thomas?
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Annual Stories

 * 1993 - Thomas and the Snow Block

Magazine Stories

 * 1987 - Thomas's Christmas Party
 * 2001 - Pulling the Post and A Special Story About Stepney
 * 2007 - Wet Wait
 * 2011 - Snow Play

Books

 * 2008 - Valentine's Day in Vicarstown
 * 2012 - Sound Storybook Treasury
 * 2016 - A Valentine for Percy

My Thomas Story Library

 * 2010 - The Snowy Surprise

Engine Adventures
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 * 2017 - The Snowy Surprise

Merchandise

 * Bachmann
 * Motor Road and Rail
 * Pocket Fantasy

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - Jack's Snow Rescue

Trivia

 * Toby's cowcatchers double as built-in ploughs, but as seen in the episodes It's Only Snow and Love Me Tender, they work best with light layers of snow and particularly low drifts.
 * In the sixth series of Thomas & Friends episode, It's Only Snow, Thomas is seen wearing a different snowplough instead of his usual blue one.
 * No diesel engines have ever been seen wearing snowploughs throughout the entire television series.
 * Terence has been the only non-rail vehicle to be seen wearing a snowplough.
 * Duck's snowplough used to share the same design as Donald and Douglas' original snowploughs. It was then utilised by Percy in the ninth series episode, Keeping Up with James. Starting from the eighteenth series, Duck wore a snowplough to the same design as Thomas'.
 * In the ninth series, all the engines except Thomas and Percy had silver snowploughs, with the sides of each plough painted in the same livery as the engine who wore it. However, Henry did have a green snowplough that went unused.
 * Starting from the seventeenth series onwards, all of the engines' snowploughs were painted in the liveries corresponding to them and are based on the design of Thomas' snowplough, excluding Victor's, Donald's, Douglas', Henry's, Gordon's, James' and Emily's. In the merchandise ranges, excluding the Donald and Douglas Snowplough set from Motor Road and Rail, all the engines' snowploughs are based on the design of Thomas' snowplough.
 * Victor is the only narrow gauge engine to have a snowplough.
 * Starting with the twentieth series, Donald and Douglas' snowploughs are the same designs as Emily's, as is Spencer's in the twenty-first series.
 * Most of the snowploughs in the merchandise ranges are not removable.
 * Starting in Big World! Big Adventures! and the twenty-second series, Yong Bao gains a snowplough of the same design as Gordon's and Henry's, and Nia gains one of Thomas' design, although her's is black (yet her TrackMaster Push Along snowy variant is depicted with an orange plow). Likewise, Rebecca gains one to the same design as Emily's.
 * As of the twenty-third series, Gordon's snowplough has changed to the design used by Emily.
 * Dustin and Marshall have rotary snowploughs as they are snowplough locomotives.
 * The tenth series was the only series not to have an engine wear a snowplough.
 * Nia and Hiro have the same snowplough, in structure and livery. This also applies to Donald and Douglas and the Larger Mean Engine.
 * Gordon is the only engine on the Island of Sodor known to have an alternate snow clearing device other than a snowplough, that being his own snow machine.