Neville/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Neville is a fictional standard gauge tender locomotive created by Marc Seal.

In 2005, Neville made his debut in the ninth series of Thomas & Friends in the episode, Thomas and the New Engine. He later appeared in the eleventh series episode, Emily's Rubbish and the twelfth series episode, Best Friends.

Neville has not appeared in the television series since 2008.

Neville is based on a SR Bulleid Q1 Class locomotive. The specific engine Neville is based on (BR no. 33010, originally SR no. C10) was built in September 1942 at Brighton Works and scrapped at Birds Manoravon Scrapyard, Morriston, Swansea in 1964.

Gauge 1 model
Production orthographics were drawn up for Neville's gauge 1 model on 7th August 2004. Neville's model was scratch built from plastic to run on gauge 1 track. His wheels and chassis were CNC, and his funnel, dome, and buffers were made of brass. A second model was planned to be built additionally, however this never came to be and the second model was left unfinished and unused on screen.

Present Day
After production of the model series wrapped in 2008, most of the models and sets would be put into storage, with some being put on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park. All other models would be logged and referenced in 2009 by HiT Entertainment, from this HiT would decide on which models were to enter storage once again, which would be given to crew members and which to be disposed off. Neville's unfinished second model, would be disposed off by HiT Entertainment as it was no longer needed. The main first model however, would stay under HiT and later Mattel's ownership.

Neville's model is currently in Mattel's storage unit in Southampton, England. The second unfinished model was sold to Prop Gallery from a private collection along with some screen used faces in 2022 and painted up and finished to look like the original prop, the model would be revealed on the 15th of October 2022.

Fonts
The following fonts were used on Neville's Gauge 1 model:
 * Helvetica Neue Medium Extended

Voice Actors

 * Michel Lasorne
 * Yukito Soma
 * Jeon Tae-yeol
 * Christian Stark
 * Sebastian Perdek