Tar Tankers (T&F)

Tar tankers, also referred to as tar wagons, are used for transporting tar. The tar is mostly used for the roads.

James once crashed into a line of tar tankers after running out of control with a goods train. Some tar tankers were also left at Wellsworth station and were needed to mend the roads.

Personalities
Sentient tar tankers fall into the category of Troublesome Trucks.

Type of sentient tankers

Basis
The tar tankers are based on standard 14-ton pre-war tankers common across most of regions.

Livery
The tar tankers are painted black. They have the word "TAR" painted in white on both sides.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 1 - Dirty Objects
 * Series 3 - Gordon and the Famous Visitor, Thomas, Percy and the Dragon, Diesel Does it Again, No Joke for James, Thomas, Percy and the Post Train, Trust Thomas, All at Sea, Escape, Oliver Owns Up, Heroes and Percy, James and the Fruitful Day
 * Series 4 - Four Little Engines, A Bad Day for Sir Handel, Trucks, Steam Roller, Rusty to the Rescue, Thomas and Stepney, Toad Stands By, Paint Pots and Queens, Fish and Special Attraction
 * Series 5 - Horrid Lorry, Gordon and the Gremlin, Bye George!, Put Upon Percy, Thomas and the Rumours, Happy Ever After, A Surprise for Percy and Make Someone Happy
 * Series 10 - Percy and the Funfair, Toby's Afternoon Off, It's Good to be Gordon, Toby's New Shed, Thomas' Frosty Friend and James the Second Best
 * Series 11 - Dirty Work and Thomas and the Lighthouse
 * Series 12 - Best Friends
 * Series 23 - Chucklesome Trucks

Music Videos
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 * Series 4 - Thomas' Anthem Grand Finale and Don't Judge a Book by its Cover
 * Series 5 - Accidents Will Happen
 * Series 7 - Troublesome Trucks
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Magazine Stories

 * 1988 - James and the Tar Wagons

Trivia

 * Eight tar tanker models used to be on display at Drayton Manor.
 * The tankers had black lines going through their writing in the first series, these lines were re-positioned in the third series and removed completely in the tenth series. The lines were readded on their CGI models, which were based off their series 1 design, albeit with the lines being slightly thinner.
 * The tar tankers were dropped after the CGI switch, with their role being fulfilled by oil tankers. The tar tankers would not appear in CGI until the twenty-third series, ten years after the switch to CGI animation and only a year before the CGI was replaced with 2D animation.
 * Their models are almost identical to the Oil Tankers except oil lettering is replaced by tar.
 * The tanker that was destroyed in Dirty Objects had "TAR" written on its front and back ends as well as its sides. This was the only tanker to be designed like this until the twenty-third series where all the tankers now include the extra writing.
 * Some tar tankers with faces appeared in Toad Stands By. The faces were sourced from the narrow gauge slate trucks. Some of these are owned by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.
 * In the first two series, due to budget limitations, the tar tankers were painted black on one side and white on the other, the latter side being used for the milk tankers. During production of the sixth series, one of the tar tankers was repainted into an oil tanker.
 * In the fourth series, there was only one tar tanker model that had the "TAR" writing on only one side, as seen in Rusty to the Rescue.

Merchandise

 * Capsule Plarail
 * Motor Road and Rail
 * Tomica
 * Bachmann
 * Boss
 * De Agostini
 * ERTL
 * Hornby
 * Nakayoshi
 * Take Along
 * TrackMaster
 * Wooden Railway