Salty (T&F)

Salty is a red dockyard diesel engine who works at Brendam Docks. He speaks like a stereotypical pirate and enjoys telling stories revolving around the sea and fantasy.

Biography
Salty worked on an unnamed coastal railway for many years, where he acquired his vast collection of stories, songs and possibly his sailor's accent, before coming to Sodor to work at Ffarquhar Quarry with Mavis, Bill and Ben. Salty was upset, being used to working near the sea, but he soon won the trucks over with his tales and sea shanties and as a reward for his hard work was sent to work at Brendam Docks.

Salty's presence at the docks led to Cranky having a huge distaste for Salty's stories. Cranky snapped at Salty when he pulled up and when Salty thought that Cranky needed company, this made him recall a story about a lonely old Grand Banks lighthouse keeper. He started to tell this story to Bill and Ben (who had not heard it before) which infuriated Cranky and led to him dropping a load of pipes he had which knocked over the Brendam Docks sheds. With Salty, Bill and Ben being trapped at Brendam Docks, Salty decided to tell the twins many stories all night. When Harvey arrived to clear their line the next day, Cranky was very grateful.

Gordon once told Salty to keep his distance in case he made his paint sooty, but Salty pointed out that his job requires him to get sooty and Gordon does not know that because he's too full of himself. When Gordon had to pull trucks, he decided to "show Salty how an express engine pulls trucks". Unfortunately, he ignored a "Go slow" sign and had a horrific accident. Salty apologised for teasing him and Gordon apologised for being too full of himself.

Later, he and Fergus saved a ship from crashing into the rocks when the lighthouse lamp went out. He and Harvey later asked Murdoch about his past, which annoyed him.

Salty has shared many stories with his fellow engines that have often come into play later on. He told Percy that the carpet he was delivering was apparently magic and odd happenings convinced Percy and Gordon that it was.

Once, he accidentally ran over a flagpole that Henry was meant to deliver to the Scottish Castle.

He also told a story about a treasure on Sodor and Thomas followed all of Salty's clues and eventually found the treasure, just as the new Maritime Museum opened.

He later introduced Thomas to Billy, was one of the first engines to meet Stanley, looked at the docks for Thomas when he was missing, cheered when Thomas was found and tried to take some woodsmen into the forest, but was blocked by trucks.

Salty later told the engines about the "strange engines" (Bash, Dash and Ferdinand) that lived on Misty Island, a mysterious island not far from Sodor. He also told Thomas that the Star of Knapford could be magical.

He later told Percy about the "Monster of Brendam" and Edward tried to find him a present.

When Kevin was sent to work at Brendam Docks, Salty tried to make him feel better about working with Cranky. Later, Salty started experiencing engine trouble. However, he refused to go to the Dieselworks as he was worried that the Fat Controller might send him back to the quarry if he was not useful. This concern was strengthened with the arrival of Porter. Salty went to the Dieselworks, but ended up crashing into a flatbed of fuel cans in his hurry to return to the Docks. The fuel made his wheels slip and he ended up colliding with a shipment of party decorations. Salty was certain that he would be sent away. But, to his relief, the Fat Controller told him that he was meant to work with Porter, who had been sent to help him.

One foggy day, he told the engines about the flatbeds of fear. When Percy was missing Gator, Salty encouraged him to get on with his work. Salty and Porter both almost had a collision with Bill and Ben and also helped Timothy to play a trick on the twins.

Much later, Salty had been sent to work on the Mainland as they were short of an engine, but he was afraid to go on a ship and travel by sea. However, he overcame his fears thanks to Thomas, who reminded him of his past tall tales which scared the other engines. He later pretended to be the Ghost of Christmas Past to frighten Diesel and reminded him of his past mistakes.

He also told Edward, Henry, James, Cranky and Porter about a "lost pirate" when Henry saw Skiff and Sailor John and mistook them for a ghost boat the previous night.

Salty (along with Porter and Cranky) were among the few who mistook Henry for a ghost, when the big green engine was accidentally given "glow-in-the-dark" paint at the Sodor Steamworks.

When the Great Railway Show was being held, Salty, amongst the other engines, wanted to compete in the events, but he was not chosen. He was also at the docks when the international engines competing in the competition came to Sodor by mistake on the ferry, one of which accidentally bumped into Thomas, causing him to dangle over the ferry and she saved him. Thomas was too speechless to say anything because of how beautiful the engine looked, so Salty introduced Thomas to the engine (to Thomas' embarrassment), who introduced herself as Ashima.

When Harvey's crane stopped working completely when he was at Brendam Docks, he was too shy to ask Salty or Cranky for help. So, to settle things, he decided to play a game of I-Spy while attempting to sneak out of the docks. After Harvey derailed at a tunnel, Salty almost collided into him, while finally being able to figure out what Harvey had spied. He also told the story of the Sea Serpents, who eventually worked together to get what they wanted; this convinced Cranky and Carly to start working together. He also thanked Nia for sorting out the trucks at the docks.

Later, Cranky accidentally knocked Salty off of the docks and into the sea. When he was finally lifted out, Thomas took him to the Dieselworks to be repaired. During his stay there, Salty (along with many of the other diesels) got trapped when the doors malfunctioned as a result of Den slipping on some seaweed that had fallen off of Salty.

Personality
Unlike some diesels, Salty is an easy-going, jolly, friendly, and very practical diesel who very rarely gets upset. He also enjoys telling stories revolving around the sea and fantasy. His seafaring ways and nautical accent are sometimes ridiculed and teased by the other engines (though Percy and Thomas imitated his accent since they thought he was amazing), but his usefulness almost always helps the others overlook that. He can work with trucks like no other engine; this is due to his enjoyment of working to a musical rhythm like the trucks and it may also be due to his vast collection of sea shanties. He loves the sea so much that he pines for it when he is away from it for long periods of time. He was once afraid to travel by ocean due to his knowledge of sea tales, but he overcame that.

Basis
Salty is based on a British Rail (BR) Class 07 diesel-electric shunter. The number he has, D2991, is a real BR number belonging to a member of the class; built in 1962, this locomotive escaped the cutter's torch by becoming a static generator at Eastleigh Railway Works and is still working there under the ownership of Knights Rail Services as of March 2007. This class of locomotives worked at Southampton Docks, where they replaced the older SR USA (Rosie's class) and LB&SCR E2 (Thomas' class) tank engines. The Class 07 was notorious for having their axleboxes run hot whenever they were operated at high speeds. Salty has not been shown to have this problem.

Livery
Salty is painted crimson with scarlet warning stripes along his body, yellow and black hazard stripes on his front and rear and yellow buffer beams with signs of rust. At the top of his forehead, he has the brim of a skipper's hat. His name is painted on his rear section in black and his number 2991 is painted on the sides of his cab, also in black.

In the sixteenth series episode "Salty's Surprise", it is revealed that due to a shortage of red paint, he was once painted green.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 6 - Salty's Secret, Harvey to the Rescue, No Sleep for Cranky, It's Only Snow and Gordon Takes a Tumble
 * Series 7 - Bill, Ben and Fergus, What's the Matter with Henry? , James and the Queen of Sodor , The Spotless Record , Salty's Stormy Tale, Peace and Quiet, Best Dressed Engine and Not So Hasty Puddings
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - Mud Glorious Mud
 * Series 8 - Percy's New Whistle, Thomas to the Rescue, Emily's New Route , Edward the Great , Squeak, Rattle and Roll , Thomas and the Circus, Fish, James Goes Too Far and Percy and the Magic Carpet
 * Series 9 - Thomas and the Rainbow, Thomas and the Birthday Picnic , Thomas and the New Engine , Henry and the Flagpole and Keeping Up with James
 * Series 10 - Toby's Afternoon Off, Seeing the Sights and Thomas and the Treasure
 * Series 11 - Emily's Rubbish, Thomas Sets Sail, Don't be Silly, Billy, Hide and Peep and Thomas in Trouble
 * Series 12 - Henry Gets it Wrong
 * Series 14 - Being Percy, Merry Winter Wish and Thomas' Crazy Day
 * Series 15 - Gordon and Ferdinand, Percy's New Friends, Edward the Hero and Tree Trouble
 * Series 16 - Percy and the Monster of Brendam, Bust My Buffers!, Salty's Surprise, Sodor Surprise Day, Whiff's Wish , Happy Birthday Sir! and The Christmas Tree Express
 * Series 17 - Kevin's Cranky Friend, The Thomas Way, Not Now, Charlie!, Too Many Fire Engines , Away From the Sea and Gone Fishing
 * Series 18 - Old Reliable Edward, Flatbeds of Fear, Disappearing Diesels, Thomas the Quarry Engine, Missing Gator, No Steam Without Coal, Spencer's VIP , Toad's Bright Idea, Long Lost Friend, Emily Saves the World and Timothy and the Rainbow Truck
 * Series 19 - Who's Geoffrey?, The Truth About Toby, A Cranky Christmas, Toad and the Whale, Salty All at Sea, Reds vs. Blues, The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead, Diesel's Ghostly Christmas and No Help at All
 * Series 20 - Henry Gets the Express, Diesel and the Ducklings and Henry in the Dark
 * Series 21 - Dowager Hatt's Busy Day, Stuck in Gear, Cranky at the End of the Line, New Crane on the Dock, A Shed for Edward, The Big Freeze and Emily in the Middle
 * Series 22 - Forever and Ever, Confusion Without Delay, Seeing is Believing, Counting on Nia and Hunt the Truck
 * Series 23 - Diesel Do Right, Steam Team to the Rescue, Panicky Percy and Out of Site
 * Series 24 - A New Arrival, James the Super Engine, Sonny's Second Chance, Kenji on the Rails Again and Thomas' Animal Friends
 * Other - Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers

Specials

 * 2005 - Calling All Engines!
 * 2008 - The Great Discovery
 * 2010 - Misty Island Rescue
 * 2011 - Day of the Diesels
 * 2013 - King of the Railway
 * 2014 - Tale of the Brave
 * 2015 - The Adventure Begins and Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
 * 2016 - The Great Race
 * 2017 - Journey Beyond Sodor
 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Music Videos

 * Series 6 - Down by the Docks, Winter Wonderland and Boo! Boo! Choo-Choo
 * Series 7 - Five New Engines in the Shed and Salty
 * Series 8 - A World Around You and Ode to Gordon
 * Calling All Engines! - Trying
 * Series 9 - Pride
 * Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - The Work Song
 * Series 10 - Doing it Right, Favourite Place and Responsibility
 * The Great Discovery - Where, oh Where is Thomas? and Thomas, You're the Leader
 * Misty Island Rescue - Misty Island Rescue
 * Series 14 - All You Need
 * Day of the Diesels - Day of the Diesels
 * Series 17 - Hey, Hey Thomas! and On a Journey Today
 * Series 18 - The Best Friends Express
 * Thomas' YouTube World Tour - Down by the Docks, Navigation, Never, Never, Never Give Up, The Island Song, Ode to Gordon and Rules and Regulations
 * Series 19 - There's Snow Place Like Home, Spring is Here! and Engine Roll Call
 * Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure - We Make a Team Together
 * Series 20 - It's Halloween and James the Really Splendid Engine
 * The Great Race - Will You Won't You
 * Journey Beyond Sodor - I Want to Go Home
 * Series 21 - Doing it Right, Trying and Little Engines
 * Series 22 - Engine Roll Call and The Steam Team
 * Series 24 - How Does it Work?
 * Nursery Rhymes - Hickory Tickory Tock and My Name is Thomas

Learning Segments

 * Calling All Engines! - Thomas Looks for Mavis
 * Series 9 - Who's Under the Coal Dust? - James, Emily Respects and Where Can Neville Find Salty?
 * Series 10 - Old Route, New Route and What Makes Salty Happiest?

Videos
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 * 2015 - Welcome to the Island of Sodor Logan! and Welcome to the Island of Sodor Sam!
 * 2017 - Shark Escape
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Magazine Stories
Salty also appeared in the magazine stories, Diesel Display, Diesels with Measles!, Fish and Fog!, Glider Rider, Gone Fishing, Hooked Hat, Sea-Bound Salty, Seeing Sails and So Many Stories
 * 2003 - Shipwrecked!, Flying Fish!, Seaside Salty and Revving Racers
 * 2004 - Salty by the Sea, It's Only Snow!, Name Fame, On the Beach, Ship Ahoy!, Dockers' Dinner, Snake's Alive! , Salty Gets Wet, Salty's Tales , Sparks Fly and Glider Rider
 * 2005 - Fresh Fish, Percy and the Magic Carpet, Passenger Pick Up, Trying Time, Sail Spotting, The Dinosaur and Salty and the Trucks
 * 2006 - Disgusted Diesels
 * 2007 - Toby's Afternoon Off and BoCo the Brave
 * 2008 - Funny Faces! and Perfect Promise
 * 2010 - In a Spin, Henry Gets It Wrong!, Disgusted Diesels and Percy and the Magic Carpet
 * 2011 - A Home for Salty, Too Tired, Salty's Surprise!, Creepy Claw, Taking a Break, Winter Wish and Percy's New Friends
 * 2012 - Edward's Big Rescue, The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 644), Keeping up with James and Taking Toby
 * 2013 - Happy Birthday, Sir!, Being Percy and Kevin's Cranky Friend
 * 2014 - Salty's New Friend, Happy Birthday, Sir!, Swanky Cranky! and Not Now, Charlie!
 * 2015 - Missing Gator and Not Now, Charlie!
 * 2016 - Who's Geoffrey?
 * 2017 - Not Now, Charlie! and The Kind Diesel

Books

 * 2003 - Down at the Docks
 * 2016 - The Great Race (Golden Book)

My Thomas Story Library

 * 2004 - Salty
 * 2007 - Murdoch and Neville
 * 2008 - Billy

Really Useful Stories

 * 2018 - Delivery at the Docks
 * 2021 - Being Kind

Audio Stories
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 * 2020 - Kevin's Cranky Friend, Who's Geoffrey?, Toad and the Whale, Henry in the Dark, Thomas and the Big Bad Storm and Thomas and the Fairy God Engine

Official Description
2004-2008= From Official Website

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From Official Website
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Horns
In the eighth series, Calling All Engines!, Thomas and the Treasure, the tenth series Learning Segment, What Makes Salty Happiest? and Thomas and Friends: Adventures!, Salty has Derek's horn at two steps higher-pitched.

From the tenth series episode, Toby's Afternoon Off to the twelfth series (excluding Thomas and the Treasure and the tenth series Learning Segment, What Makes Salty Happiest?) and in Thomas' Musical Day for Percy in the kids app Speakaboos, Salty reuses Bert's horn sound from the eighth series episode, Percy's New Whistle.

Salty's current horn sound since Day of the Diesels reuses Derek's horn sound at its regular pitch.

In the album Nursery Rhymes, Salty's horn is two steps lower-pitched.

Whistle
In the mobile app Read and Play!, Salty is incorrectly portrayed with a whistle, and he uses Thomas' whistle and a lower-pitched version of Molly's whistle sound combined. He shares this with Charlie in the same app.

Trivia

 * Salty has been cut from more episodes than any other engine, being cut from a total of four episodes, with those being the sixth series episode, "It's Only Snow", the eighth series episode, "Emily's New Route", the ninth series episode, "Thomas and the New Engine" and the eleventh series episode, "Emily's Rubbish".
 * Salty consistently speaks with a West Country English accent, which matches his bio and his deep love for the sea.
 * Some Nitrogen Studios promos of Salty lack the rust on his bufferbeams.
 * Salty's Thomas & Friends model used to be on display at Nitrogen Studios and wore his happy face mask.
 * A production-made face of Salty is preserved by the Coffey Man Preservation from the Prop Gallery.
 * One of Salty's happy face masks is now in possession of Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.
 * In certain regions during the Days Out with Thomas events, he had Mavis' face.
 * Salty's current horn sound from Day of the Diesels onwards is reused from Derek's horn sound, which in turn is a stock truck horn sound effect that has been used in many other forms of media, such as the Tom and Jerry Show episodes, "Molecular Breakup" and "Road Tripping" The Woody Woodpecker episode, "Time Warped", and the Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales episode "Unidentified Flying Mater".
 * Salty's horn sound from the seventh series was used for him in most of his merchandise, except for Wooden Railway, in which his model used his current horn sound, otherwise known as Derek's, and My First Thomas, where he had his original horn sound from the sixth series only, but at a different design.
 * Salty's horn from the sixth series is from the magic train from the PS2/PC game Play with the Teletubbies.
 * It is also heard in the ‘I Love my Train’ song from the British children’s show ‘Me Too!’
 * His horn sound from the seventh series was later reused for Diesel 10 in Calling All Engines! and Patrick in the Jack and the Sodor Construction Company's episode On Site with Thomas.
 * Salty's horn sound from the tenth series episode Toby's Afternoon Off to the twelfth series and Thomas' Musical Day for Percy in the kids app, Speakaboos is the same as Bert's horn from the eighth series episode, Percy's New Whistle.
 * Salty had a total of twelve facial expressions, two of which (sleeping and angry) were not used on-screen.
 * Salty is the only diesel whose Nakayoshi toy has not been discontinued.
 * Salty's name in the Polish dub from the thirteenth to the twenty-fourth series has been translated as Boatswain.
 * According to the Thomas and Friends Writers' Bible and various merchandise bios, Salty has worked at docks all across the world.

Quotes
""Here comes 'Mr. Showoff'!" grouched Ben. "You have to admit, he's got a knack with those trucks!" said Mavis. "Driver says he'll bore the bolts off us with his stories!" huffed Bill. But Salty didn't say a word. He didn't come near the shed. Mavis was worried, she rolled alongside and asked him what he was doing on his own. "Oh, I thought I might catch a bit of sea breeze." "You really do miss the sea, don't you?" asked Mavis. "Aye, I do.""

- Mavis shows sympathy for Salty, Salty's Secret, sixth series

"Don't take me away from the sea boys... Don't take me away from the sea!"

- Salty and Porter singing, Away From The Sea, seventeenth series

"Clattering Columbus! The world is heading straight for us!"

- Salty, Emily Saves the World, eighteenth series

"We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and a Salty new year!"

- Salty singing, A Cranky Christmas, nineteenth series

"Every creak is another step near the scrap yard."

- Salty