Who is Gordon in Thomas the train?

Gordon is a big blue tender engine who works on the Main Line, and is number 4. He is Flying Scotsman’s only surviving brother. Gordon is also one of the fastest and strongest engines on the Island of Sodor, whose main task is to pull the Wild Nor’ Wester, the railway’s express train.

How fast can Gordon the Big engine go?

List of Engines and their Top Speeds

Character:	Class:	Top Speed:
&GordonGordon	Great Northern Railway Gresley Class A1 Pacific, with a fowler tender	&100mph100 miles per hour / 161 kilometres per hour

How old is Gordon the Big engine?

According to The Biggest Adventure Club, Gordon is at least over 40 years old. As revealed in a storyboard for the test pilot, Gordon originally lacked his tender. He also had a red footplate like the rest of the engines in the reboot do.

What is Gordon based on?

All of the locomotives in The Railway Series are based on real historical engines; Gordon is believed to be based on a Gresley pacific prototype, which was never built but for which plans exist, as he is a 4-6-2 similar to the Flying Scotsman, an LNER A3 class locomotive.

Who is faster Gordon or Spencer?

When Gordon arrives at the shed, the engine is humming to himself. James explains that he is Spencer, the fastest engine in the world. Gordon scoffs at this, but is secretly impressed. Spencer explains that he is the Duke and Duchess’ private engine and he takes them everywhere he goes.

What locomotive is Gordon based on?

Gresley pacific prototype
All of the locomotives in The Railway Series are based on real historical engines; Gordon is believed to be based on a Gresley pacific prototype, which was never built but for which plans exist, as he is a 4-6-2 similar to the Flying Scotsman, an LNER A3 class locomotive.

What kind of engine is Gordon?

Gordon (Number 4) Gordon (No. 4) is a blue 4-6-2 (‘Pacific’) ex-London and North Eastern Railway Gresley Class A1 locomotive. He is the prototype example of his class, although this is not directly revealed in Awdry’s books.

Which engine got bricked up in a tunnel?

Henry
Henry, a big green engine, doesn’t want to risk paintwork being ruined by rain, so refuses to leave a tunnel he enters on a trip. But he may end up being there longer than he wants as he ends up being bricked up.

Does the Island of Sodor exist?

Sodor is a fictional island featured as the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry (and his son Christopher), begun in 1945, and for the popular Thomas & Friends television series since 1984.