Donald and Douglas (RWS)/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Donald and Douglas are fictional Scottish twin standard gauge tender locomotives created by the Rev. W. Awdry. They work and live on the Island of Sodor and are known to work on the Little Western and occasionally on Edward's Branch Line. They carry the numbers 9 and 10 respectively.

They first appeared in The Railway Series book, The Twin Engines, which was published in 1960. Their last appearance was in Thomas and his Friends, published in 2011.

Front of Donald and Douglas:

Donald and Douglas are based on the CR Class 812.

Awdry's models
The Rev. W. Awdry only made a model of Donald for his model railway; there never was a Douglas model. The model was made in 1959 from a Tri-ang 3F as reference for John T. Kenney for the illustrations in The Twin Engines. It was used occasionally for enthusiast trains on the Ffarquhar Mk2 Layout and is currently on display at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn, Wales.