Dryaw (RWS)

Dryaw is a small village and station on Thomas' Branch Line. An airfield is located nearby.

History
The village began as a worker village for the staff of A.W. Dry and Company, a company working on reclaiming tidal land from the sea. The hutments built by A. W. Dry for his work-people behind the first reclamation bank were rebuilt in permanent form as brick or stone cottages when footings became firm enough to support them. These formed the nucleus of a village. As work went on more and more land to the west was drained and settled, mostly in plots of one or two acres. The soil, when leached of salt, proved fertile and now supports prosperous market gardens.

A Heliport belonging to the Coastguard Service is near the east bank of the river.

Dryaw has two railway stations. The old one on the Harbour Line is now a Goods Depot with a staff of two responsible to the Stationmaster of Elsbridge. It is near the village centre, ironically making it better suited for passenger trains. Workmen's trains stop here as do most goods trains, and it is not unknown for Goods Guard's to have a van full of passengers on market days for Elsbridge or Knapford as the case may be. The Passenger station is on the Main Branch, inconveniently away from the village. It is unstaffed, has a good car park, and a service of 7 trains a day each way is provided.

Appearances
Railway Series=

The Railway Series

 * Thomas Comes Home - Thomas Comes Home
 * Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines - Rabbits

Companion Volumes

 * 1987 - Thomas and the Evil Diesel
 * 1992 - Thomas and the Hurricane


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Annual Stories

 * 1987 - Lost in the Snow and Percy's Passengers
 * 1995 - Easter Egg Special
 * 1996 - The Wrong Shirt

Trivia

 * The name "Dryaw" is an anagram of "Awdry", as is A. W. Dry.