Patrick/Behind the Scenes

The Railway Series
Patrick, originally known as Lord Harry and briefly No. 6, is a fictional narrow gauge mountain locomotive created by the Rev. W. Awdry. He is the No. 6 engine on the Culdee Fell Railway.

Patrick appears in Mountain Engines - published 1964. This marks his only appearance in the main Railway Series books. Christopher Awdry has stated that the reason there are no more books about the Culdee Fell Railway is due to the safety precautions and limited traffic - meaning no more story opportunities.

Patrick has however appeared in various companion volumes. His last illustrated appearance was in the 1980 annual, and was last mentioned in Sodor: Reading Between the Lines published in 2005.

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Television Series
Mountain Engines was the first book of the Railway Series not to have any of its stories televised. According to an interview with Robert Gauld-Galliers, this could be attributed to limited storylines, rack-and-pinion track, the engines' strange-angled body, and being not very merchandisable.

In 1997, the character was produced in the ERTL die-cast range and featured in various Thomas & Friends media, such as magazines and trading cards. However, the merchandise lines still referred to him by his previous name, Lord Harry, and maintains his original arrogant and careless persona.

In 2012, the Culdee Fell Railway was mentioned in a Blue Mountain Mystery promotional video about the differences between the narrow and standard gauge. In a 2015 interview, Sam Wilkinson stated the "Culdee Fell Railway have always been on the list to be created, ever since I joined, but these would always require a lot of time, resources, and money to create. Also there is no live-action reference so everything would have to be done from scratch". Sadly, this never came to fruition.