User:EdJogg/List of The Railway Series articles

This page aims to list all of the articles and re-directs associated with The Railway Series. Some Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends articles/redirects are also included, but most are not (far too many to list!).

The reasons for the list's existence are:
 * 1) To give quick direct-copy source for links and anchors
 * 2) To allow checking that all page links use the correct anchors
 * 3) To allow removal of double-re-directs (or recover lost anchors from bot edits)
 * 4) To allow archive search for information 'lost' during rationalisation process.

DAB (name) page text format
Standard formats for 'name' pages (to conform with Wiki standard for disambig pages - 'nearly', as The Railway Series shouldn't really be linked ):
 * Oliver the Western Engine, a character from The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry
 * Mike (locomotive on the Arlesdale Railway), a character from The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry
 * Bear (diesel locomotive), a character from The Railway Series books by Rev.W.Awdry


 * NOTE -- Bill and Ben: modified to alternate 'preferred' format (more like MOSDAB) by another editor (11 Nov 08)

Individual Character Pages
NOTE - suggest revising table to use TWO colours and dispense with thelinks columns. Yellow for 'redirect','name','prototype' columns would indicate link changed to correct one; green to indicate that all related links have been corrected too. What green/yellow means for the final column is unclear - perhaps relating to prototype info?

Major Characters
Major North Western Railway (fictional) characters

''NOTE - all 'character' pages from Thomas down to (and incl) 'Bill & Ben' have been checked for redirect pages. All such pages, unless they point somewhere weird, have now been included in the table.

Minor Characters
Minor North Western Railway (fictional) characters

Mid Sodor Railway Characters
All names checked for redirects (21 Sept 2006).

Arlesdale Railway Characters
See Arlesdale Railway for rolling stock entries.

Culdee Fell Railway Characters
The majority of these characters should NOT be added to the name (disambiguation) pages as the characters are not significant enough to warrant this (would just add to the 'noise').

Major articles
Articles covering both Railway Series and TV Series:
 * Ffarquhar Ffarquhar
 * Tidmouth Tidmouth

Re-direct articles
'Re-direct' pages providing choice of links to either Railway Series or TV Series 'Fictional Locations' pages(essentially dis-ambig pages with no information):
 * Dryaw Dryaw
 * Elsbridge Elsbridge
 * Gordon's Hill Gordon's Hill
 * Knapford Knapford
 * Vicarstown Vicarstown
 * Wellsworth Wellsworth

Re-directs
These have been 'Re-direct Articles' (as above) in the past, but have subsequently been changed to straight redirects to the 'F L in the Railway Series' subsections.None of these (as at 10 Jan 2007) has any links from TV series pages.

If any of these have TV series coverage too, they should be converted back, for consistency.
 * Arlesburgh Arlesburgh
 * Arlesdale Arlesdale
 * Ballahoo Ballahoo
 * Brendam Brendam
 * Crovan's Gate Crovan's Gate
 * Culdee Fell???

Location page links

 * Abbey Station Abbey


 * Arlesburgh Arlesburgh


 * Arlesburgh Bridge St. (station) Arlesburgh Bridge St.


 * Arlesburgh West (station) Arlesburgh West


 * Arlesdale Arlesdale


 * Arlesdale Green Arlesdale Green


 * Ballahoo Ballahoo


 * Ballaswein Ballaswein


 * Barrow Central railway station Barrow Central railway station


 * Brendam Brendam


 * Cronk Cronk


 * Crosby Crosby


 * Cros-ny-Cuirn Cros-ny-Cuirn


 * Crovan's Gate Crovan's Gate


 * Culdee Fell Culdee Fell


 * Devil's Back Devil's Back


 * Dryaw Dryaw


 * Elsbridge Elsbridge


 * Ffarquhar Ffarquhar


 * Ffarquhar Road (station) Ffarquhar Road


 * Glennock Glennock


 * Gordon's Hill Gordon's Hill


 * Hackenbeck Hackenbeck


 * Harwick Harwick


 * Haultraugh Haultraugh


 * Kellsthorpe Road Kellsthorpe Road


 * King 'Orry's Bridge King 'Orry's Bridge


 * Killdane Killdane


 * Kirk Machan Kirk Machan


 * Kirk Ronan Kirk Ronan


 * Knapford Knapford


 * Lakeside Lakeside


 * Maron Maron


 * Marthwaite Marthwaite


 * Norramby Norramby


 * Peel Godred Peel Godred


 * Rheneas (station) Rheneas


 * Rolf's Castle Rolf's Castle


 * Shiloh Shiloh


 * Skarloey (station) Skarloey


 * Skarloey Road (station) Skarloey Road


 * Suddery Suddery


 * Toryreck Toryreck


 * Tidmouth Tidmouth


 * Ulfstead Ulfstead


 * Vicarstown Vicarstown


 * Wellsworth Wellsworth

List of Railway Series Books - links

 * 1. The Three Railway Engines  The Three Railway Engines


 * 2. Thomas the Tank Engine  Thomas the Tank Engine


 * 3. James the Red Engine   James the Red Engine


 * 4. Tank Engine Thomas Again   Tank Engine Thomas Again


 * 5. Troublesome Engines   Troublesome Engines


 * 6. Henry the Green Engine   Henry the Green Engine


 * 7. Toby the Tram Engine  Toby the Tram Engine


 * 8. Gordon the Big Engine  Gordon the Big Engine


 * 9. Edward the Blue Engine  Edward the Blue Engine


 * 10. Four Little Engines   Four Little Engines


 * 11. Percy the Small Engine  Percy the Small Engine


 * 12. The Eight Famous Engines  The Eight Famous Engines


 * 13. Duck and the Diesel Engine Duck and the Diesel Engine


 * 14. The Little Old Engine  The Little Old Engine


 * 15. The Twin Engines        The Twin Engines


 * 16. Branch Line Engines Branch Line Engines


 * 17. Gallant Old Engine Gallant Old Engine


 * 18. Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine


 * 19. Mountain Engines Mountain Engines


 * 20. Very Old Engines Very Old Engines


 * 21. Main Line Engines Main Line Engines


 * 22. Small Railway Engines Small Railway Engines


 * 23. Enterprising Engines  Enterprising Engines


 * 24. Oliver the Western Engine Oliver the Western Engine


 * 25. Duke the Lost Engine Duke the Lost Engine


 * 26. Tramway Engines Tramway Engines


 * 27. Really Useful Engines Really Useful Engines


 * 28. James and the Diesel Engines James and the Diesel Engines


 * 29. Great Little Engines Great Little Engines


 * 30. More About Thomas the Tank Engine More About Thomas the Tank Engine


 * 31. Gordon the High Speed Engine Gordon the High Speed Engine


 * 32. Toby, Trucks and Trouble Toby, Trucks and Trouble


 * 33. Thomas and the Twins Thomas and the Twins


 * 34. Jock the New Engine Jock the New Engine


 * 35. Thomas and the Great Railway Show Thomas and the Great Railway Show


 * 36. Thomas Comes Home Thomas Comes Home


 * 37. Henry and the Express Henry and the Express


 * 38. Wilbert the Forest Engine Wilbert the Forest Engine


 * 39. Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines  Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines


 * 40. New Little Engine New Little Engine


 * 41. Thomas and Victoria Thomas and Victoria


 * The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways


 * Sodor: Reading Between the Lines Sodor: Reading Between the Lines


 * The Thomas the Tank Engine Man The Thomas the Tank Engine Man


 * Thomas's Christmas Party Thomas's Christmas Party


 * Thomas Comes to Breakfast Thomas Comes to Breakfast


 * Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree


 * Thomas and the Evil Diesel Thomas and the Evil Diesel


 * Thomas and the Hurricane Thomas and the Hurricane


 * Bad Days for Thomas and His Friends / More Bad Days for Thomas and His Friends Bad Days for Thomas and His Friends / More Bad Days for Thomas and His Friends

Citation templates
Use 'pages ' parameter name for a range (shows as 'pp' in references). Use n-dash (–) as the separator.

Book 12 -- The Eight Famous Engines
(1) Within text (no 'ref' tags required):
 * Harvard notation

(2) In 'References' section (preferred without linebreaks): *



Thomas the Tank Engine
Archived Link -- Check current page against quoted archive (for changes) before re-using.

Stepney the Bluebell Engine
Archived Link -- Check current page against quoted archive (for changes) before re-using.

Thomas News
Unfortunately, no anchor links to individual news stories.

Web Pages for References

 * The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine....

NB -- also see Britt Allcroft and ...
 * Model Railway Enthusiast (Feb 1994) article
 * Origins/critique of Hornby/Ertl/Meccano models (refs for Merchandise article!)
 * Gold dust 1 -- Three of Awdry's model railways
 * Gold dust 2 -- details of the original models (RWS characters only!)
 * Make sure that this is available at the Internet Archive!


 * How Thomas the Tank Engine Works
 * Describes the making of the TV series!!
 * WARNING -- actually mentions that it used the Wikipedia article as a reference!


 * Thomas the £1billion Tank Engine -- Daily Mirror article (Jan 2010)
 * Lots of detail, but much could have been sourced from WP!!
 * May be advisable to use as a starting point of information to be checked elsewhere....


 * Independent article about merchandising
 * goes on about pursuing rights, and the amounts involved