Daisy (RWS)/Behind the Scenes

Background information
Daisy is a fictional diesel railcar created by the Rev. W. Awdry. Daisy lives and works on the North Western Railway.

She first appeared in The Railway Series book, Branch Line Engines, which was published in 1961. Her last appearance was in Thomas and his Friends, published in 2011.

The front of Daisy:

Daisy is based on the BR Class 101.

Awdry's model
Awdry described the making of Daisy's model in the 1980 annual:

"DAISY was built while I was writing Branch Line Engines. She was very easy to make. I bought a Triang twin-car diesel set, and all I had to do then was to cut off the driver's end from the trailer car and cement it to the square end of the power car. I fitted scale wheels to the power and trailing bogies and that was that. Daisy is a good reliable performer, and has given little trouble in her 14/15 years."

It was first used on the Ffarquhar Branch Layout in 1963 and the yellow ends were added at a later date. It is currently at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn, Wales.