Steam Team

The Steam Team is the name given to of the main group of characters in Thomas & Friends, first implemented in the eighth series.

In the twenty-second series, the Steam Team was reformatted when Edward and Henry left Tidmouth Sheds, with Nia and Rebecca taking their places in the sheds.

Trivia

 * According to SiF's interview with Sam Barlow, Duck was going to be part of the Steam Team. However, during production of Calling All Engines!, the crew had to make room for Emily in order for a female character to have a more prominent role. He also mentioned that the concept of the Steam Team was made to help cement the core characters in the minds of the audience.
 * Before being removed from the Steam Team in the twenty-second series, Toby was the only member not to sleep at Tidmouth Sheds, instead having his own shed at Arlesdale End.
 * A bronze statue of the original Steam Team members and Sir Topham Hatt is situated in a park close to Abbey station.
 * In The Great Discovery only, Stanley was added to the Roll Call with the Steam Team.
 * According to Ian McCue, the replacement of Edward and Henry with Nia and Rebecca in the Steam Team was done to fix the gender imbalance at Tidmouth Sheds and diversify the Thomas & Friends franchise.
 * The plans involving the removal of Edward and Henry were also different; while it was always planned to remove Edward, dropping Henry from the Steam Team was a change implemented late in the development of the twenty-second series. Rebecca was also conceived before the series' retool, but was ultimately only conceptualized around the same time as Nia.

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