Narrow Gauge Trucks

Several types of four-wheeled Narrow Gauge Trucks have been used on the Mid Sodor, Skarloey and Estate Railways.

Trucks (I)
These trucks are four-wheeled open wagons which were seen on the Skarloey Railway and the Mid Sodor Railway in the television series.

Biography
They are used for carrying minerals, materials, and machinery. They are also pulled by an engine for Workmen's trains and maintenance work. One of these trucks often would have a craned mounted onto and be used as part of the Breakdown Train.

Like the Slate Trucks, they take a disliking towards Sir Handel and love to play tricks on him. Some of these trucks were later seen derailed at the bottom of The Old Trestle Bridge. On the Mid Sodor Railway, Smudger once caused severe derailment of a train load of coal.

Personality
These trucks on fit into the category of Troublesome Trucks. They dislike Sir Handel because he often bumps them. On the other hand, Peter Sam never bumps the trucks unless they misbehave.

Types of sentient trucks in the television series:

Basis
These trucks are inspired by typical examples of Welsh narrow gauge rolling stock from the heyday of the slate traffic era.

Livery
These trucks are painted brown with black frames. Sometimes their loads are covered with dark green tarpaulins.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 4 - Granpuff, Sleeping Beauty, Bulldog, You Can't Win, Four Little Engines, A Bad Day for Sir Handel, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady, Trucks, Home at Last, Rock 'n' Roll, Special Funnel, Steam Roller, Passengers and Polish, Gallant Old Engine, Rusty to the Rescue and Thomas and Stepney
 * Series 5 - Bye George!, Stepney Gets Lost, Duncan Gets Spooked, Rusty and the Boulder and Snow
 * Series 7 - The Old Bridge and Trusty Rusty

Music Videos
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 * Series 4 - Thomas' Anthem Grand Finale, Let's Have a Race, Gone Fishing and The Island Song
 * Series 5 - It's Great to be an Engine, The Snow Song and Come for the Ride
 * Series 6 - Little Engines
 * Series 7 - The Whistle Song

Voice Actors

 * Chisato Nakajima (Japan; Trucks)
 * Yasuhiro Takato (Japan; Trucks)

Trivia

 * In the fourth series, the chassis for the slate trucks were made from Cooper Craft O gauge "GWR Match Truck" (3016) and were given modifications:
 * Their ends were cut off.
 * Parts of the middle were cut out.
 * Diagonal w irons were cut off.
 * A piece of styrene attached for stability.
 * The trucks' faces would later be used for the Tankers in Toad Stands By.
 * Some of these trucks with their faces and loads are owned by Twitter users ThomasTankMerch and TomsProps.
 * No large scale models of these trucks were produced.

Trucks (II)
These trucks are four-wheeled open wagons which were seen on the Skarloey Railway, Mid Sodor Railway and Estate Railway in the television series.

Biography
They are used for carrying coal, stone, tools and other materials. George once rammed his front roller into Sir Handel's train, in which he was pulling two of these trucks. Duncan once discovered a train of old coal trucks trapped inside Culdee Caves. One of these trucks was later part of the "Puppet Show Special" pulled by Skarloey.

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

Basis
These trucks are inspired by typical examples of Welsh narrow gauge rolling stock from the heyday of the slate traffic era.

Livery
The trucks were brown and grey in the fourth and fifth series, black and dark green from the sixth to twelfth series and appear in grey, red, green and light green from the sixteenth series onwards.

The old coal trucks from the Culdee Caves were dark green had rusty brown frames and white weathering.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 4 - Granpuff, Sleeping Beauty, Bulldog, Four Little Engines, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady, Trucks, Home at Last, Rock 'n' Roll, Special Funnel, Steam Roller, Passengers and Polish, Gallant Old Engine, Rusty to the Rescue and Thomas and Stepney
 * Series 5 - Bye George!, Duncan Gets Spooked, Rusty and the Boulder and Snow
 * Series 6 - Rusty Saves the Day and Faulty Whistles
 * Series 7 - The Old Bridge, The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop, Rheneas and the Roller Coaster, The Runaway Elephant, The Grand Opening and Trusty Rusty
 * Series 9 - Tuneful Toots, The Magic Lamp, Rheneas and the Dinosaur, Duncan and the Old Mine and Skarloey the Brave
 * Series 10 - Follow that Flour, A Smooth Ride, Duncan Drops a Clanger, Thomas' Tricky Tree, Which Way Now?, Wharf and Peace, Duncan's Bluff, Missing Trucks and Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out
 * Series 11 - Thomas and the Big Bang, Cool Truckings, Wash Behind Your Buffers and Sir Handel in Charge
 * Series 12 - Mountain Marvel, The Party Surprise and Push Me, Pull You
 * Series 16 - Don't Bother Victor! and The Christmas Tree Express
 * Series 17 - Luke's New Friend and The Switch
 * Series 18 - Duncan the Humbug and Millie and the Volcano
 * Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home
 * Series 20 - Tit for Tat
 * Series 22 - Seeing is Believing and Counting on Nia
 * Series 24 - Nia and the Unfriendly Elephant

Specials

 * 2008 - The Great Discovery
 * 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery
 * 2013 - King of the Railway
 * 2017 - Journey Beyond Sodor

Music Videos

 * Series 4 - Thomas' Anthem Grand Finale, Let's Have a Race, Gone Fishing and The Island Song
 * Series 5 - It's Great to be an Engine, The Snow Song and Come for the Ride
 * Series 6 - Little Engines
 * Series 7 - The Red Balloon and The Whistle Song
 * Series 9 - Buffer Up and Share
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - The Work Song
 * Series 10 - Navigation, There's Always Something New, Responsibility, Strength and Jingle Bells
 * Series 11 - The Narrow Gauge Engines
 * The Great Discovery - There's a Job for Everyone and Thomas, You're the Leader
 * Blue Mountain Mystery - Working Together and Blue Mountain Mystery
 * Series 17 - Hey, Hey Thomas! and On a Journey Today
 * Thomas' YouTube World Tour - A World Around You, The Island Song, The Whistle Song and Night Train

Learning Segments
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 * Series 10 - Up and Down the Hill

Trivia

 * In the fourth series, the chassis for the trucks were made from Cooper Craft O gauge "GWR Match Truck" (3016) and were given modifications:
 * Their ends were cut off.
 * Parts of the middle were cut out.
 * Diagonal w irons were cut off.
 * A piece of styrene attached for stability.
 * Some of these trucks are now owned by Twitter users ThomasTankMerch and TomsProps.
 * Two large scale trucks are currently on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum.

Trucks (III)
These trucks are four-wheeled open wagons which were seen on the Skarloey Railway in the television series.

Biography
They are used frequently for carrying coal. Although they have been used for carrying flour, apples, stone, tools, farm supplies, and other materials.

Skarloey once crashed into Rheneas' train of coal trucks at the Transfer Yards. Another time, Skarloey delivered some Troublesome Trucks full of flour to the wharf. The trucks saw a chance for mischief by biffing Skarloey several times spilling his load of flour. Skarloey would later teach the trucks a lesson and threatened to biff them back.

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

Types of sentient trucks in the television series:

Basis
These trucks are inspired by typical examples of Welsh narrow gauge rolling stock from the heyday of the slate traffic era.

Livery
These trucks are painted dark green with black frames.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 7 - The Runaway Elephant, The Grand Opening and Trusty Rusty
 * Series 9 - Tuneful Toots, The Magic Lamp, Rheneas and the Dinosaur, Duncan and the Old Mine and Skarloey the Brave
 * Series 10 - Follow that Flour, A Smooth Ride, Duncan Drops a Clanger, Thomas' Tricky Tree, Which Way Now?, Wharf and Peace, Duncan's Bluff, Missing Trucks and Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out
 * Series 11 - Thomas and the Big Bang, Cool Truckings, Wash Behind Your Buffers and Sir Handel in Charge
 * Series 12 - Mountain Marvel, The Party Surprise and Push Me, Pull You

Specials

 * 2008 - The Great Discovery

Music Videos

 * Series 7 - The Red Balloon
 * Series 9 - Buffer Up and Share
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - The Work Song
 * Series 10 - Navigation, There's Always Something New, Responsibility, Strength and Jingle Bells
 * Series 11 - The Narrow Gauge Engines
 * The Great Discovery - There's a Job for Everyone and Thomas, You're the Leader

Learning Segments

 * Series 10 - Up and Down the Hill}}

Voice Actors

 * Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Japan; Wharf and Peace)

Trivia

 * One of these trucks is currently on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum.
 * No small scale model of these trucks exist.

Merchandise

 * Take-Along
 * Take-n-Play

Side Tipping Wagons
These trucks are four-wheeled open wagons which were seen on the Skarloey Railway and Sodor China Clay Company.

Railway Series
In the 1860s, these trucks were filled with minerals from the Crovan's Gate Mining Company and their loads were transfered to standard gauge trucks on the Sodor and Mainland Railway.

Thomas & Friends
These trucks are seen being used at the Blue Mountain Quarry and the Sodor China Clay Company.

Basis
These trucks are based on side tipping wagons used on various narrow gauge railways and quarries, such as the Nottinghamshire ironstone quarry, Hendre quarry, and the Glyn Valley Tramway.

Livery
The trucks were painted light brown with grey frames.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Very Old Engines - Crosspatch and Bucking Bronco

Companion Volumes
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 * 1995 - Thomas the Tank Engine Book Club
 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection

Thomas & Friends

 * Series - ???

Specials
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 * 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery
 * 2014 - Tale of the Brave

Ffestiniog Railway Coal Wagons
These wagons are rolling stock used for carrying coal and other minerals throughout the narrow gauge railways.

The coal wagons originated from the Ffestiniog Railway. In the Railway Series, they were used on the Mid Sodor and Skarloey Railways.

Basis
These wagons are based on 2-ton iron coal wagons used on the Ffestiniog Railway.

Livery
These wagons are painted grey.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Duke the Lost Engine - You Can't Win

Companion Volumes

 * 1976 - Famous Engines
 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection

Plank Trucks
Several of these trucks are four-wheeled open wagons which were seen on the Skarloey Railway in the Railway Series.

Basis
These trucks are based on those used by the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the conveyance of general merchandise, coal, timber, fish and beer. The wagons were rebuilds of some of the railway’s 2-bar slate trucks.

Livery
One of trucks these was painted light blue, with black frames and black buffer blocks. Some other trucks were seen painted green with black frames, and brown with grey frames.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * The Little Old Engine - Home at Last and Rock 'n' Roll
 * Gallant Old Engine - Steam Roller Passengers and Polish
 * Very Old Engines - Bucking Bronco and Stick-in-the-Mud

Companion Volumes

 * 1976 - Famous Engines
 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection
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Books

 * 1996 - Bumper Colouring Book

Merchandise

 * Take-n-Play
 * Wooden Railway

7-Plank Trucks
7-plank trucks are rolling stock used for transporting goods and materials throughout the narrow gauge railways.

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

Types of sentient trucks in other media:

Basis
The plank trucks are based on the standard gauge 7-plank open wagons, scaled down to 2'3" gauge.

Livery
These trucks are commonly painted grey with black frames. In the Blue Mountain Mystery storybook, they are painted faded shades of brown, red, orange, green and yellow with the Blue Mountain Quarry logo on both sides.

Appearances
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Books

 * 2003 - Skarloey
 * 2004 - Sir Handel and Duncan
 * 2005 - Peter Sam
 * 2006 - Rusty
 * 2011 - Skarloey the Strong Engine, Sir Handel the Wise Old Engine, Duncan the Stubborn Engine, Peter Sam the Friendly Engine and Rusty the Little Diesel Engine
 * 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery and Risky Rails!
 * 2013 - King of the Railway and The Lost Crown of Sodor
 * 2014 - Nine Favorite Tales
 * 2015 - Sir Handel Learns a Lesson and Rusty gets the Job Done

Magazines

 * 1997 - The Colourful Engine and Silly Skarloey!
 * 2000 - Creepy Cutting!
 * 2001 - Airborne Engine and A Special Story About Sir Handel
 * 2002 - Big Ideas!, Climb Time!
 * 2003 - Air Share! and Mountain Rescue
 * 2008 - Roll and Rock
 * 2010 - Big Ideas!
 * 2011 - Reindeer Rescue
 * 2012 - Going Rusty
 * 2013 - Going Rusty

The Troublesome Trucks also appear in The Cliff Railway and The Mountain Railway.

Annual Stories
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 * 1997 - Pipe Dreams and Rusty's Revenge

Trivia

 * These trucks are protrayed as narrow gauge variants to the standard gauge 7-Plank Troublesome Trucks seen on the North Western Railway.

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster
 * Wooden Railway
 * Departing Now
 * Nakayoshi

Cattle Trucks
The cattle trucks are wooden 4-wheel open wagons which were used on the Mid Sodor Railway.

They were used for transporting cows and bulls, usually from the farms to the markets. These trucks have slatted sides.

On his arrivial to the Skarloey Railway, Sir Handel immediately took at dislike to the coaches and they were most offended when he called them "cattle trucks".

Livery
These trucks have a wooden body and a black chassis.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Four Little Engines - Sir Handel

Companion Volumes

 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 4 - A Bad Day for Sir Handel
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Books

 * 2004 - Sir Handel
 * 2011 - Sir Handel the Wise Old Engine
 * 2015 - Sir Handel Learns a Lesson

Trivia

 * The cattle trucks did not make an physical appearance in any Railway Series illustrations. However, a model was featured on Awdry's Mid Sodor layout.
 * In the Television Series, Slate Trucks have been used to transport cattle on the Skarloey Railway.

Mid Sodor Railway Trucks
These trucks were used for transporting goods and merchandise, exclusively on the Mid Sodor Railway. These trucks form the consist of "Horse and Cart".

Basis
The smaller trucks are 4-plank open wagons and the larger trucks are 7-plank open wagons.

Livery
The smaller open wagons were painted grey and had "M.S.R." written on the sides in white lettering. While, the larger open wagon was painted dark green.

Appearances
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Companion Volumes

 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways

Trivia

 * The Mid Sodor layout features models of two small open wagons and one green open wagon.