Fernando

Fernando is a teal diesel who works on a railway in Brazil.

Thomas & Friends
Fernando was first seen at Guanabara Bay when Sir Topham Hatt was looking for Thomas. He told him that he saw the tank engine taking coffee to San Francisco. He then proceeded to dance along to the music after Topham was dragged away by a group of people taking part in the carnival.

Fernando was seen pulling a train through the docks as Thomas, Raul, Gabriela and Cassia were playing with a beach ball. Raul proceeded to send the ball flying into one of his trucks.

Thomas encountered Fernando when he was delivering machine parts. The diesel complimented Thomas on the sounds that his moving parts were making, saying that he had a good rhythm going and suggested that he go to the carnival.

Personality
Fernando is very polite and tries to be helpful to anyone he meets. He seems to have a habit of pointing out when someone repeats him, and will say "That's what I just said!" whenever they do so.

Basis
Fernando is based on a British Rail (BR) Class 08 diesel-electric shunter. In the real world, BR Class 08s were in fact the most successful shunting engines in the world with 996 of them built. Over seventy of them are preserved by heritage railways, such as the Dean Forest Railway and museums, such as the National Railway Museum. Around one-hundred BR Class 08s also remain in service on the national rail network.

Diesel, 'Arry, Bert, Splatter, Dodge, Paxton, Sidney, Ulli and the Mainland Diesels are also based on BR Class 08s along with the international orange, blue and Chinese diesels. Two BR Class 08s also appear in the Railway Series.

Livery
Fernando is painted teal and light grey with teal straps across the top of his bonnet. He has red wheels, a red headlamp and black and yellow hazard stripes on his front.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 23 - Batucada and Grudge Match
 * Series 24 - Thomas and the Forest Engines

Specials

 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Videos
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 * 2019 - Meet Raul of Brazil! and Meet Gabriela and Cassia of Brazil!
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Video Games

 * 2018 - Thomas & Friends: Adventures!

Voice Actors

 * Gabriel Porras
 * Kunihiro Kawamoto
 * Kento Shiraishi
 * Gabriel Ortiz
 * Ángel Amorós
 * Carlos Moreno
 * Ingo Mess
 * Tuukka Leppänen
 * Alessandro Imperador
 * Anton Savenkov
 * Bolla Róbert

Audio Files
Horns

In Thomas and Friends: Adventures, Fernando reuses and shares Flynn's horn. In Series 24 only, Fernando has a lower-pitched version of Max and Monty's original horns.

Trivia

 * Fernando's model is a modified version of one of the Mainland Diesels.
 * In Thomas and Friends: Adventures, Fernando had Flynn's horn - however, he possibly has a slightly lower-pitched version of Max and Monty's horn sounds in Jack and the Sodor Construction Company in the television series as of the twenty-fourth series episode, "Thomas and the Forest Engines".

Behind the Scenes
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