Annie and Clarabel (T&F)

Annabel "Annie" and Clarabel "Clara"  are Thomas' faithful coaches, who he loves dearly. They are a pair of orange-brown coaches who work on the North Western Railway. The pair usually work on the Ffarquhar Branch Line - or as part of "The Local" on the Main Line - with Thomas.

Biography
Thomas met Annie and Clarabel for the first time when he thought they were the Express Coaches. He apologised and introduced himself, leaving Annie and Clarabel impressed. At that time, they were often pulled by James. When Thomas received his branch line after rescuing James, the two coaches were given to him to use.

When Emily first came to Sodor, she accidentally took the pair not knowing they were Thomas' coaches. A similar incident happened with Neville when he first arrived a few years later.

Once, Annie and Clarabel were accidentally coupled to the back of Caitlin's Coaches by Charlie, leading to them being dragged behind Caitlin from Knapford Yards to Ulfstead Castle, and then from the castle to the Mainland, with Thomas chasing behind. Fortunately for all involved, Hiro was able to save the pair and brought them back to Sodor.

While Thomas was working at the quarry one winter, the Fat Controller asked Daisy to work on his branch line. At first, she insulted Annie and Clarabel, thinking she would not need them; however, as traffic on the branch line picked up, Daisy was asked to take them so she could carry more passengers. While she was pulling the pair, Annie and Clarabel made remarks about her making a terrible noise in order to get revenge. This backfired when Daisy left them at Maithwaite in order to have her fitter check her over. Both of them were later scolded by the Fat Controller for it, and the next day had to work with Diesel as punishment while Daisy went away.

Personalities
Annie and Clarabel are respectful to all of the engines, but most of all Gordon and Thomas. The only exception to this is Daisy, who they respect least of all for insulting them and Henrietta. They show a kind and caring side to everyone on the railway. However, despite their kindness and sweetness, they can be stern when needed, especially Annie. For instance, they scolded Thomas for teasing Gordon after his accident, although they are no saints themselves. Once when Daisy was rude to them, they naughtily tricked her into thinking there was something wrong with her which caused confusion and delay. When the Fat Controller found out he told them that two wrongs do not make a right and that he expected better from both of them. Annie and Clarabel are best friends, but like all friends, sometimes they fall out. Despite this, they always try to make things right in the end.

Although the two respect Gordon, both Annie and Clarabel do not tolerate his arrogance more than other engines and like others they seek to teach him a lesson, as Annie was shocked by Gordon's rude comments about Edward. Additionally, when Gordon begged Thomas to speed up on Gordon's Hill, Clarabel smiled smugly at the express engine both before and after he got stuck on the hill. Furthering their morals, though, they do have a sense of humour, and did not hesitate to laugh at Gordon when he told them and Thomas about his trousers mishap.

Basis
Annie and Clarabel are based on LBSC Stroudley Coaches built between the early 1870s and late 1880s. Several coaches of this type are preserved on the Bluebell Railway and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. An An and Yin-Long share the same basis.

In the first series, several other coaches share the same basis as Annie and Clarabel.

Liveries
Annie and Clarabel painted in a bright orange livery with their names painted on their sides in white. In the fifth series, they were refurbished, repainted and their buffer shank housings became red at the request of Lady Hatt.

In Thomas' imagination where he gets streamlined in The Great Race, Annie and Clarabel are repainted in NWR blue with a white stripe near the bottom and a thicker white stripe with red borders near the top.

In the magazine story, Thomas, Terence and the Snow, Annie and Clarabel were coloured greenish-grey.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 1 - Thomas and Gordon, Thomas and the Breakdown Train , James and the Coaches, Thomas and the Guard, Thomas Goes Fishing , Thomas, Terence and the Snow, Thomas and Bertie, Tenders and Turntables , Trouble in the Shed , Percy Runs Away , Coal , Thomas in Trouble , Down the Mine and Thomas' Christmas Party
 * Series 2 - Thomas, Percy and the Coal, Thomas and Trevor, Percy and the Signal , The Runaway, Better Late Than Never , The Missing Coach , Thomas Comes to Breakfast , Daisy, Percy's Predicament , Ghost Train , Woolly Bear and Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree
 * Series 3 - Percy's Promise, Time for Trouble , Thomas Gets Bumped , Trust Thomas , Tender Engines , Oliver Owns Up , Bulgy , Percy, James and the Fruitful Day and Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
 * Series 4 - Four Little Engines, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady , Rusty to the Rescue , Thomas and Stepney , Bowled Out , Henry and the Elephant, Thomas and the Special Letter and Mind that Bike
 * Series 5 - Horrid Lorry, Gordon and the Gremlin , Baa! , Put Upon Percy, Haunted Henry , Toby's Discovery , Thomas and the Rumours , Happy Ever After , Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday, Make Someone Happy and Busy Going Backwards
 * Series 6 - Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry, The Fogman , It's Only Snow , Twin Trouble , The World's Strongest Engine , Scaredy Engines , Middle Engine , James and the Red Balloon , Jack Frost , Gordon Takes a Tumble , Percy's Chocolate Crunch , Thomas, Percy and the Squeak and Edward the Very Useful Engine
 * Series 7 - Emily's New Coaches, Percy Gets it Right, Bill, Ben and Fergus , What's the Matter with Henry? , James and the Queen of Sodor , Toby's Windmill , Something Fishy , Peace and Quiet , Bulgy Rides Again , Harold and the Flying Horse , The Grand Opening , Best Dressed Engine , Gordon and Spencer , Not So Hasty Puddings and Three Cheers for Thomas
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - A Visit from Thomas
 * Series 8 - Thomas and the Tuba, Percy's New Whistle , Henry and the Wishing Tree , James Gets a New Coat , Thomas Saves the Day, Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough , Don't Tell Thomas , Emily's New Route , Thomas and the Firework Display , Gordon Takes Charge , Spic and Span , Squeak, Rattle and Roll , Thomas and the Circus , As Good as Gordon , Emily's Adventure , You Can Do it, Toby! and Chickens to School
 * Series 9 - Percy and the Oil Painting, Thomas and the Rainbow , Mighty Mac , Thomas and the Birthday Picnic , Thomas and the Toy Shop, Thomas and the New Engine , Toby Feels Left Out , Henry and the Flagpole , Emily Knows Best , Thomas' Day Off and Bold and Brave
 * Series 10 - Percy and the Funfair, Thomas and the Jet Plane , Toby's Afternoon Off , Seeing the Sights , Toby's New Shed , Sticky Toffee Thomas , Thomas and the Shooting Star , Topped Off Thomas , Thomas and the Colours , Thomas and the Treasure and Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out
 * Series 11 - Emily's Rubbish, Dream On , Gordon and the Engineer , Edward and the Mail , Thomas in Trouble, Percy and the Left Luggage and Duncan Does it All
 * Series 12 - Thomas and the Billboard, Steady Eddie , Henry Gets it Wrong , Heave Ho Thomas! , Toby's Special Surprise , Excellent Emily , Saved You! , Tram Trouble , Percy and the Bandstand and Best Friends
 * Series 13 - Double Trouble, The Early Bird , Play Time , Time for a Story , Toby's New Whistle , Splish Splash Splosh , Henry's Good Deeds and Hiro Helps Out
 * Series 14 - James in the Dark, Pingy Pongy Pick Up , Thomas and the Snowman Party , Thomas and Scruff , Jitters and Japes and Henry's Magic Box
 * Series 15 - Gordon and Ferdinand, Percy's New Friends , Edward the Hero and Percy the Snowman
 * Series 16 - Ol' Wheezy Wobbles, Express Coming Through , Percy and the Monster of Brendam , Thomas and the Sounds of Sodor , Salty's Surprise and Welcome Stafford!
 * Series 17 - Scruff's Makeover, Wayward Winston, Gordon Runs Dry, Steamie Stafford , Not Now, Charlie!, The Lost Puff , Percy's Lucky Day , Too Many Fire Engines, No Snow for Thomas, Santa's Little Engine, The Missing Christmas Decorations , Gone Fishing , The Afternoon Tea Express , No More Mr. Nice Engine and Thomas' Shortcut
 * Series 18 - Old Reliable Edward, Not So Slow Coaches, Disappearing Diesels, Duck and the Slip Coaches , Thomas and the Emergency Cable, Missing Gator , Spencer's VIP, Long Lost Friend , Duncan the Humbug , Emily Saves the World, Millie and the Volcano and Samson at Your Service
 * Series 19 - Who's Geoffrey?, The Truth About Toby, Lost Property, A Cranky Christmas, Toad and the Whale , Very Important Sheep, Salty All at Sea , Slow Stephen, Two Wheels Good , Reds vs. Blues, The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead , Philip to the Rescue, Diesel's Ghostly Christmas , Thomas the Babysitter, The Other Side of the Mountain, No Help at All  and Goodbye Fat Controller
 * Series 20 - Sidney Sings, Toby's New Friend, Bradford the Brake Van , Ryan and Daisy , Pouty James , Blown Away , The Way She Does It, Letters to Santa , Love Me Tender , The Railcar and the Coaches, Cautious Connor, All in Vain , Buckled Tracks and Bumpy Trucks , Tit for Tat, Useful Railway , Three Steam Engines Gruff, Hugo and the Airship, The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill
 * Series 21 - Dowager Hatt's Busy Day, P.A. Problems , Hasty Hannah , Unscheduled Stops, Philip's Number , The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor , The Big Freeze, Terence Breaks the Ice and Daisy's Perfect Christmas
 * Series 22 - Number One Engine, Forever and Ever, What Rebecca Does, An Engine of Many Colours , School of Duck , Seeing is Believing , Apology Impossible, The Water Wheel , Samson and the Fireworks, Rosie is Red, Banjo and the Bushfire , Counting on Nia and Hunt the Truck
 * Series 23 - Free the Roads, Chucklesome Trucks, Panicky Percy and Out of Site  and Steam Team to the Rescue
 * Series 24 - Thomas' Fuzzy Friend, Emily to the Rescue, A New Arrival, World of Tomorrow , Cleo's First Snow and Thomas and the Inventor's Workshop
 * Other - Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers

Specials

 * 1992 - Thomas and the U.K. Trip
 * 2000 - Thomas and the Magic Railroad
 * 2005 - Calling All Engines!
 * 2008 - The Great Discovery
 * 2009 - Hero of the Rails
 * 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery
 * 2013 - King of the Railway
 * 2014 - Tale of the Brave
 * 2015 - The Adventure Begins and Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
 * 2016 - The Great Race
 * 2017 - Journey Beyond Sodor
 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Music Videos

 * Series 3 - Thomas' Anthem and I'm Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Series 4 - Thomas' Anthem Grand Finale, Let's Have a Race, Gone Fishing, Toby, Don't Judge a Book By its Cover, The Island Song, Really Useful Engine and Thomas' Christmas Song
 * Series 5 - It's Great to be an Engine, Sir Topham Hatt, Accidents Will Happen, The Snow Song, Harold the Helicopter, Percy's Seaside Trip, Every Cloud has a Silver Lining and Come for the Ride
 * Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Really Useful Engine
 * Series 6 - James the Really Splendid Engine, Little Engines, Down by the Docks, Winter Wonderland, Boo! Boo! Choo-Choo and Never, Never, Never Give Up
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - The Work Song and One Friendly Family
 * Series 7 - Five New Engines in the Shed, The Red Balloon and The Whistle Song
 * Series 8 - Sounds, Surprises, A World Around You, Patience and Engine Roll Call
 * Calling All Engines! - Busy, Trying and Together
 * Series 9 - Buffer Up and Share, Brave, Day and Night, Party Time, Pride, Every Day's a Special Day on Sodor and Togetherness
 * Series 10 - Doing it Right, Favorite Place, H is for Harold, Navigation, There's Always Something New, Responsibility, Jingle Bells and Engine Roll Call
 * Series 11 - The Narrow Gauge Engines
 * The Great Discovery - Thomas, You're the Leader
 * Hero of the Rails - Go, Go Thomas
 * Series 13 - Roll Along, Thomas, You're the Leader, Sounds, Determination and Engine Roll Call
 * Series 15 - Hear the Engines Coming
 * Blue Mountain Mystery - Blue Mountain Mystery
 * Series 16 - Thomas and Percy and Go, Go Thomas
 * King of the Railway - Working Together Again, Searching Everywhere and It's Gonna be a Great Day
 * Series 17 - Hey, Hey Thomas! and On a Journey Today
 * Tale of the Brave - Tale of the Brave and Let's Be Brave
 * Series 18 - It's Christmas Time and The Best Friends Express
 * Thomas' YouTube World Tour - A World Around You, Navigation, Never, Never, Never Give Up, It's Great to be an Engine, Thomas' Anthem, The Island Song, The Whistle Song, Ode to Gordon, Rules and Regulations and That's What Friends are For
 * The Adventure Begins - Really Useful Engine
 * Series 19 - There's Snow Place Like Home, Let's Go!, Race with You, Spring is Here! and Engine Roll Call
 * Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure - Never Overlook a Little Engine and We Make a Team Together
 * Series 20 - Glynn's Christmas Wish, James the Really Splendid Engine and Accidents Will Happen
 * The Great Race - Will You Won't You, Streamlining and You Can Only Be You
 * Journey Beyond Sodor - Somebody Has to Be the Favourite and I Want To Go Home
 * Series 21 - Set Friendship in Motion, Doing it Right, Trying and Little Engines
 * Series 22 - Engine Roll Call, All the Girls Around the World, The Steam Team and Let's Dream
 * Series 23 - Don't Stop
 * Series 24 - Party Train, How Does it Work?, Fall is So Much Fun, The Little Engine Who Believed and New Year's Day with Thomas
 * Nursery Rhymes - The Wheels on the Train and If You're Happy and You Know It

Learning Segments

 * Series 8 - Sounds, Steamies and Diesels Sounds , How Does Emily Get to Cronk Station? , The Children Wait for Gordon, What Thomas Needs to do in the Winter & Helping One Another
 * Calling All Engines! - Which Engine for Which Job?
 * Series 9 - Same Colour, Getting to Bluff's Cove , What Makes Thomas Happy? , Knowing What To Do , Cool Down Delivery & What Goes Where?
 * Series 10 - Who Can Take Them?, Which Outfit for Which Occasion? & Diesels and Steamers

Videos
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 * 2014 - Welcome to the Island of Sodor Logan! and Welcome to the Island of Sodor Sam!
 * 2015 - A Friendly Farewell
 * 2016 - Meet the Contenders: Thomas of Sodor
 * 2018 - Meet the New Steam Team, Still the Best of Friends , Animals Around the World , Different Ways to See the World and Meet Ashima of India!
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Annual Stories
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 * 1985 - Percy to the Rescue, Thomas and the Important Visitor and Unhappy Landing
 * 1987 - Signal Failure and Lost in the Snow
 * 1988 - Thomas and Trevor and Terence Turns Pot Hunter
 * 1989 - The Trouble with Sheep
 * 1990 - Thomas and the Cricketers
 * 1991 - Thomas and the Sunday School Outing
 * 1992 - Percy and the Vicar's Prizes and Thomas and the Swans
 * 1993 - Thomas and the Snow Block
 * 1994 - Thomas and the Tickles
 * 1995 - The Picnic Express, Oliver's Sparkler and Thank You, Thomas and Toby
 * 1996 - The Wrong Shirt and Pantomime Pranks
 * 1998 - Engines to the Rescue and The Star of the Show
 * 1999 - Blooming Railways and Toby Saves the Day
 * 2000 - Slow Down, Thomas!, Thomas the Famous Engine and Buzzing Bees!
 * 2001 - Very Special Engines and Thomas the Famous Engine
 * 2002 - A Special Day for Thomas, "That's the Way to Do It!" and Percy's Dream
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Magazine Stories

 * 1987 - Hello, Thomas!, Thomas and the Breakdown Train and Thomas, Terence and the Snow
 * 1988 - Thomas and Harold, Thomas and the Guard, Thomas Goes Fishing, Thomas and Bertie, Tenders and Turntables , Trouble in the Shed , Percy Runs Away , Coal , A Late Start for Thomas, Thomas Down the Mine, Thomas, Percy and the Coal, The New Coaches, Thomas and the Horse , The Runaway, Better Late Than Never , Daisy, Percy's Night Out , A Bump on the Line and Thomas's Christmas
 * 1989 - Fire, Thomas For Sale, An Important Visitor, Clearing Up , Clarabel's New Friend, A Surprise for Thomas , Thomas and the Cyclist , A Fishy Smell and Bertie's Bumpy Road
 * 1990 - Thomas and the Umbrella, After the Last Train and Emergency!
 * 1991 - Picnic Surprise
 * 1992 - All Aboard! and Lost and Found!
 * 1993 - Keeping Cool!, The Wedding Engine! and Thomas and the Lamps
 * 1994 - A Special Treat for Thomas, The New Station, The Nature Bus! , Thomas Keeps a Secret! and Puffing Pots!
 * 1995 - Special Signal!, Percy has Problems and Thomas and the Missing Whistle
 * 1996 - Flag Waving!, Important Passengers!, The Thomas Kart!, Monkey Business! , Sunday Schedule! , A Day at the Beach! , The Little Line , Play Time! and The Play Train!
 * 1997 - Diesel Becomes a Coach, Annie and Clarabel, Carrying Coal!, Percy's Promise and Bobbing About!
 * 1998 - Potty Parrot!, The Red Squirrel! , Thomas and Bertie!, The Carnival! , The Exhibition! , The Greenhouse Bus! , Billy's Bones! and Oliver
 * 2000 - Turntable Bridge!, Back to Front! and Henrietta's Holiday
 * 2001 - The Eyesight Test, Choc-o-BoCo! , Thomas Chimes In , Three Tins of Smoke , Dusty Diesel and Rolling Around!
 * 2002 - The Winning Shot, Time Trouble! , The Flower Festival , In the Picture , Dusty Diesel and Road Wreckers
 * 2003 - Super Heroes!, Seaside Search!, Surprise, Surprise! , A Foggy Friend , The Boatshow , Cruise Control! , Really Fast Food! , Trevor and Thomas , Feeding Time , Where's Wag? , Happy and Sad , Frozen Engine , Cat Got the Cream! , Milk and Motors! , Thomas Goes Squeak! and Animals
 * 2004 - Going for a Swim!, Special Signal , Holiday Train , Holiday Hat , Bertie and the Race , Disgusted Diesels , Thomas' New Coaches , It's Only Snow! , Rock Shock! , Scary Jack Frost , Place to Play , Night Lights , Double Trouble! and The Talking Horse
 * 2005 - Slide and Ride, Really Useful Coaches, Grand Old Duke, Tidy-Up Time! , Chickens to School , Thomas Saves the Day , The Dinosaur and As Good as Gordon
 * 2006 - Toby Feels Left Out, Thomas, Emily, and the Snowplow , Percy's New Whistle , Thomas and the New Engine , Tunnel Trouble and Disgusted Diesels
 * 2007 - Yacht Race, Surprise Visitor , Rocky Ride, Sleepy Sam , Seeing the Sights , Look and Hook  and Big Day Out
 * 2008 - Mystery Music and A Spring Clean!
 * 2009 - Thomas Saves the Day, Spring Special and Spring Time Special
 * 2010 - Story Train, Christmas Dinner Diner, Surprise Visitor , Henry Gets It Wrong! , Seeing Sheep! , Emily's Lucky Day , Saving Santa! , Play Time , Halloween Hats , Twin Trees! and Disgusted Diesels
 * 2011 - Jitters and Japes, Time For a Story , Musical Trucks , The Glow Train , The Flying Teapot , Strawberry Special , Clowning Around , The Glow Engine and Tidy Thomas
 * 2012 - Making Annie Smile, Story Time with Thomas, Double Trouble , Smiles All Round, Bird Watch , Team Spirit Time! , The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 647) , Going Rusty , City of Truro , Thomas and the Sound of Sodor , Percy the Snowman and Prize Guys
 * 2013 - Play Time, Time For a Story , Too Many Fire Engines! , Gordon Runs Dry , All in a Day's Rescue, Bulgy's Back , Platform Number 1! and Henrietta's Holiday
 * 2014 - Thomas Takes a Shortcut, Valentine's Surprise , The Royal Carriage , No More Mr. Nice Engine , The Afternoon Tea Express , Not Now, Charlie! and Speedy Steamies
 * 2015 - Old Reliable Edward, No 'I' in Team, Emily Saves the World , Silent Puffing! and Not Now, Charlie!
 * 2016- Who's Geoffrey? and Speedy Steamies
 * 2017 - Emily Saves the World, Not Now, Charlie! and Speedy Steamies

Annie and Clarabel also appeared in the magazine stories, An Old Friend, Bulgy's Dream, Catch!, Christmas Puddings, Clever Carriages, Clever Clarabel!, Clowning Around, Daisy and the Troublesome Trucks, Diesel Causes Delay, Dressing Up, Fast Food!, Feeding Time, Holiday Havoc!, Lights On, Looking Splendid, Night Lights, Party Time!, Percy gets Wet!, Pot Luck!, Problem Passenger, Really Important Luggage, Road and Rails, Santa Special, Slick Trick!, Special Passengers, The Best Bridge, The Brown Bear, The Craft Show!, The Flying Broomstick, The Hallowe'en Special, The Huge Horses!, The Open Top Bus, The Posh Coaches, The Trainspotters and Thomas Gets Delayed. }} {{Scroll box|
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Books

 * 1986 - Thomas Goes to Town
 * 1990 - Catch Me, Catch Me!
 * 1993 - Learn with Thomas
 * 1997 - Thomas and Bertie
 * 1999 - Thomas the Really Useful Engine
 * 2001 - Thomas on the Moon and A Crack in the Track
 * 2002 - 5 Useful Engines and Thomas Gets His Own Branch Line
 * 2003 - Thomas, Toby, Terence and Thomas and Toby
 * 2004 - Percy
 * 2005 - Emily, Bertie, Diesel and Go, Train, Go!
 * 2006 - Annie and Clarabel, Blue Train, Green Train and May the Best Engine Win!
 * 2007 - Neville and The Fat Controller
 * 2008 - Valentine's Day in Vicarstown, Jeremy and At the Crossing
 * 2010 - Easter in Harwick, Charlie, Thomas to the Rescue, The Snowy Surprise and Christmas in Wellsworth
 * 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery
 * 2015 - The Story of Thomas the Tank Engine and Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
 * 2016 - Thomas, Percy, Emily , Toby , The Great Race and Thomas Counts on Christmas
 * 2017 - Diesel, Charlie, Thomas and Bertie's Race, Thomas Goes Crash!, Thomas' New Friend , Thomas' Trusty Wheels and The Snowy Surprise
 * 2018 - Trouble on the Tracks, The Great Rescue, A Day at the Football and Big World! Big Adventures!
 * 2020 - Best Birthday Ever! and Thomas the Hero
 * 2021 - Thomas and the Leprechaun and Thomas and the Robot

Audio Stories
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 * 2020 - Return to Sodor, Happy Birthday Thomas!, The Story of Percy the Small Engine , The Story of Rebecca the Happy Engine , Big World! Big Adventures! , Who's Geoffrey? , The Story of Emily the Clever Engine , Not So Slow Coaches, Reds vs Blues, The Other Side of the Mountain, Thomas and the Dinosaurs , Sidney Sings and Santa's Little Engine
 * 2021 - Dizzy Diesels, Railway Celebrations, and Chases and Races

Official Description
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Whistles
From the LeapPad book Thomas and the School Trip to Calling All Engines! (Leapster), Annie and Clarabel are both incorrectly portrayed with whistles, despite them being coaches and not engines, their whistle sound is Thomas' UK DVD Advert whistle in a higher pitch and George's Sir Topham Hatt's Helping Hand whistle in and even higher pitch.

Trivia

 * Annie and Clarabel are the only coaches and the only female characters to appear in every series. Henrietta had appeared in every series as well, up until her streak ended in the twenty-third series, where she was absent, later speaking again in Series 24.
 * Annie and Clarabel are the only characters to appear in every series and not speak in all them.
 * As of the twenty-second series, Annie and Clarabel are the only non-human twin characters who are both still voiced by the same actress.
 * Annie and Clarabel have been given more speaking roles since the CGI series started, pretty much like Henrietta has been given more speaking roles too.
 * A real coach based on the television series version of Clarabel (a former LNER "Sunshine" coach) has been put into service at the Llangollen Railway in North Wales.
 * Originally, there were plans to give Annie and Clarabel 3D grey faces similar to the engines in the twelfth series, as it would be easier to animate. During the production of said series, they were referred to as Annabel and Clarabelle.
 * Coincidentally one of the ERTL toys from preschool range has them with yellow faces similar to the grey ones on the engines rather than their usual ones.
 * Bachmann HO models of Annie and Clarabel appeared in the 2015 Marvel film "Ant-Man", along with models of Thomas and Emily's Coaches.
 * In the French dub of the model series, Annie and Clarabel were known as Annette and Claudette.
 * On early Spanish translations of the Random House books, Annie and Clarabel were known as Anita and Clarita.
 * Several merchandise items and CGI promos of Clarabel lack her guard compartment.
 * Up until the debut of the Slip Coaches in the eighteenth series, Harold, Annie and Clarabel were the only characters with embedded faces ever since that practice had phased out.
 * Clarabel's eyes are slightly further apart than Annie's; her nose is slightly broader as well.
 * Henry and Rebecca are the only members of the Steam Team - current or former - who were not seen pulling or being coupled up to Annie and Clarabel.

Quotes
"Oh come along, we're rather late! Oh come along, we're rather late!" "We're coming along! We're coming along!"

- Thomas, Annie and Clarabel singing, Thomas and the Guard, first series

"He's dreadfully rude, I feel quite ashamed. I feel quite ashamed, he's dreadfully rude. You mustn't be rude, you make us ashamed!"

- Annie and Clarabel telling Thomas off for teasing Gordon, Down the Mine, first series

"My! What splendid coaches! So much better than those beach huts on wheels!"

- Lady Hatt, Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday, fifth series

"I'll never complain about Thomas again!" "Nor will I!"

- Annie and Clarabel after being pulled by Caitlin, Not So Slow Coaches, eighteenth series

"Those are my coaches! Give them back!"

- Thomas telling Emily to bring Annie and Clarabel back, Emily's New Coaches, seventh series

"Clarabel: Come on, Thomas! Annie: It's time to go!"

- lines in every twenty-second series end segment onwards