Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Vans

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Vans are rolling stock used for transporting goods and materials throughout the railways, such as the North Western Railway.

They are also simply known as vans or trucks in the UK narration or cars in the US narration.

Thomas & Friends
When Diesel failed to pull a line of old trucks, some of these vans were seen singing a rude parody of "Pop Goes the Weasel" called Pop Goes the Diesel, much to Diesel's fury and annoyance.

Shortly afterwards, one of these vans was at the front of a train of trucks which broke away from their engine and chased Duck down Gordon's Hill, intending to derail him. They failed to bump him hard enough to do so and instead began pushing him, attempting to crash him into James' passenger train. Duck and his crew bravely attempted to take control and slow the train, but crashed into a barber shop while avoiding a collision with James. The trucks did not care, and were feeling very pleased with themselves.

Some of these vans were later used as part of the Flying Kipper, as extra vans were required after a boat returned with a greater load of fish than usual. Duck was acting as a "banker" for Henry's train on Gordon's Hill. However, Duck accidentally rammed into the rear van when a faulty tail-lamp fell off on Gordon's Hill.

At Brendam Docks, one of these vans teased James about nice paint, despite his unpleasant face.

Personality
These trucks on fit into the category of Troublesome Trucks.

Types of sentient vans in the television series:

Basis
These vans are based on the real Lynton and Barnstaple Railway box vans, scaled up from narrow gauge to standard gauge.

Livery
These vans are painted in different liveries, such as brown and black, all in either the same or different shade. Some of these vans have rust and white graffiti on them

A van painted cream appeared in an annual story.

Appearances
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 * Series 2 - Thomas, Percy and the Coal, Old Iron, Percy and the Signal, Dirty Work, A Close Shave, Break Van, Thomas Comes to Breakfast, Daisy, Percy's Predicament, Ghost Train and Woolly Bear
 * Series 3 - Thomas, Percy and the Dragon
 * Series 4 - Fish
 * Series 5 - Cranky Bugs, Horrid Lorry, James and the Trouble with Trees, Double Teething Troubles, Toby's Discovery and Something in the Air
 * Series 6 - Harvey to the Rescue, The World's Strongest Engine (deleted scene) and Gordon Takes a Tumble
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Annual Stories

 * 1991 - Rusty Red Scrap Iron

Magazine Stories

 * 1988 - A Close Shave

Trivia

 * One of these vans had raised buffers to match the engines and other rolling stock. This particular van along with its face-mask is now in possession of Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.
 * One of these vans made its last appearance in the widescreen version of the sixth series episode, Gordon Takes a Tumble. A van can be faintly seen tumbling down the hill when Gordon and his goods train begin to derail.
 * As of March 2020, a model of one of these vans is on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park.
 * These trucks were referred to as "Hippo Wagons" by the modelmakers.

Merchandise

 * Tomica
 * Waku Waku
 * Motor Road and Rail
 * TrackMaster
 * Motorized
 * Capsule Plarail
 * Departing Now
 * Nakayoshi
 * Bachmann