Flora/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Flora is a fictional standard gauge tram engine created by Sharon Miller and John Lee.

In 2008, Flora made her debut in the twelfth series episode, Tram Trouble. This episode was her first and only appearance.

Flora has not been seen in the series since 2008.

She was the last character of the model era before the series transitioned into full CGI.

According to the Official Website, Flora is based on a 1904 Moseley Road Tramway steam tram from Birmingham, rebuilt into standard gauge from 3ft 6in gauge. Instead of buffers, she has three couplings upon her front and rear bufferbeam. Several different types of trams were supplied to the tramway and Flora appears to be a hybrid of a Falcon and a Kitson tram, though her build date would make her a Kitson tram. All Moseley Road steam trams were withdrawn on 31st December 1906 in favour of electric trams, with none surviving into preservation.

Gauge 1 model
Flora's model was scratch built to run on gauge 1 track by model maker, John Payne. The model was made out of brass, whilst her wheels and chassis were constructed from CNC.

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. Due to only having one gauge 1 scale model made, Flora's model would stay under HiT and later Mattel's ownership.

Flora's model is currently in Mattel's storage unit in Southampton England.

Fonts
The following fonts were used on Flora's Gauge 1 model:
 * Times New Roman Bold Condensed
 * Times New Roman Bold

Voice Actors

 * Blanche Ravalec
 * Christian Stark
 * Justyna Bojczuk