Gordon's Brothers

Gordon had many siblings who were the LNER A1 and A3 Pacifics built between 1922 and 1935. They were the remaining relatives of Gordon who were mentioned in passing in The Railway Series.

Biography
The Fat Controller mentioned that Gordon's brothers and sisters had all been scrapped, with the exception of Flying Scotsman. This made Gordon feel sad, so the Fat Controller arranged for Flying Scotsman to visit in order to cheer him up.

Gordon told Donald and Douglas that he and his siblings used to be painted green. Gordon also bought up the fact he was green in his youth while talking to the Big City Engine.

Annuals
The Fat Controller has been so impressed with Gordon that he has wished he could purchase another engine just like him. However, he has vowed to never tell Gordon this as it would make the big blue engine jealous.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Enterprising Engines - Tenders for Henry
 * James and the Diesel Engines - Fire-Engine

Companion volumes

 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways
 * 1996 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection
 * 2005 - Sodor: Reading Between the Lines
 * 2007 - Thomas the Tank Engine: The New Collection


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Annuals

 * 1985 - Annuals
 * 1992 - Galloping Sausage

Books

 * 2005 - Thomas Goods Encyclopedia

Trivia

 * Seventy-nine LNER A1 and A3 Pacifics were built: Fifty-two A1s were built, fifty-one of those were rebuilt into A3s, the first one was rebuilt into an A1/1 and twenty-seven A3s were newly built. Lemberg and Pretty Polly were other members of this class. The Flying Thistle and a workshop engine are based on them. A list of all these locomotives can be found here.
 * All of Gordon's siblings were named after racehorses, with the exceptions of Great Northern, Sir Frederick Banbury, Flying Scotsman, Prince of Wales, Centenary and Dick Turpin (Although a racehorse was later given the name Dick Turpin in 1933, nine years after the engine received its name)
 * A few of Gordon's siblings were named after female racehorses. This would make them his sisters like Blink Bonny, Pretty Polly, Tagalie, Tranquil, Sceptre, Shotover and Book Law.
 * Gordon's siblings were also Mallard, Green Arrow and Spencer's cousins.
 * In the television series, scrapped engines of the same class have been seen throughout various scrapyards on Sodor. One of these scrapped engines was the Halloween Engine.