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The following article lists the characters from Thomas & Friends. It only lists those who appeared in the films and specials first.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Thomas and the Magic Railroad is the only Thomas & Friends movie released in theatres.

Name	Description	Based on	Voiced by	Portrayed by
Lady	A dark magenta Victorian-styled tank engine owned by Burnett Stone who runs the Magic Railroad. She has magical powers and also appeared in Calling All Engines!. In the Calling All Engines! DVD's character gallery, Lady is described as "a magical engine. When she moves along the rails, she spreads gold dust with her special powers. Lady has been known to help Thomas and his friends when there was no other engine to turn to."		Britt Allcroft
Diesel 10	An evil diesel engine with an excavator claw arm (which he calls "Pinchy") extending from his roof who hates steam engines and wants to destroy them, especially the magic engine Lady. He is Diesel's brother and the main antagonist in Thomas and the Magic Railroad and Day of the Diesels. Thomas said that he is rated "10 out of 10 for devious deeds and brutal strength". Diesel 10 reappeared in the 2005 direct-to-DVD followup Calling All Engines!.	British Rail Class 42	Neil Crone in Thomas and the Magic Railroad Matt Wilkinson in Misty Island Rescue; post-credit scene and Day of the Diesels
Splatter and Dodge	Diesel 10's bumbling minions.	British Rail Class 08^[1]	Neil Crone and Kevin Frank
Mr. Conductor	The railway conductor who helps to run the railway for Sir Topham Hatt when he is not helping out at Shining Time Station. In the series Shining Time Station, Mr. Conductor was portrayed by Ringo Starr and George Carlin.			Alec Baldwin
Burnett Stone	Lily's grandfather and Lady's caretaker and driver.			Peter Fonda
Lily Stone	The granddaughter of Burnett Stone. She lives in a big city, but comes to visit him during the film.			Mara Wilson
Junior	Mr. Conductor's lazy cousin.			Michael E. Rodgers
Patch	A young teenage boy who works for Burnett Stone.			Cody McMains
Stacy Jones	The manager of Shining Time Station. Didi Conn reprised the role she played on Shining Time Station.			Didi Conn
Billy Twofeathers	A Native American train driver who works in the Indian Valley, driving trains to Muffle Mountain, Shining Time and other places. In the series Shining Time Station, Billy was portrayed by Tom Jackson.			Russell Means

The Great Discovery

Name	Description	Based on	Voiced by (UK)	Voiced by (US)
Stanley	A silver saddle tank engine.	Elements of both Hudswell Clarke's 0-6-0ST and Austin 1, a Kitson locomotive currently running on the Somerset & Dorset Railway^[2]	Matt Wilkinson	Ben Small, David Menkin, Rob Rackstraw and then John Schwab

Hero of the Rails

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by (UK)	Voiced by (US)
Hiro	51	A Japanese tender engine who used to be known as the "Master of the Railway".	JNR Class D51	Togo Igawa
Victor		A dark red narrow gauge tank engine from Cuba who is in charge of the Sodor Steamworks.	Minaz Co., No. 1173	Matt Wilkinson	David Bedella
Kevin		A yellow mobile crane who works at the Sodor Steamworks alongside Victor. Kevin's catchphrase is "It was a slip of the hook!"	Ransomes & Rapier crane	Matt Wilkinson	Kerry Shale

Misty Island Rescue

Name	Description	Based on	Voiced by (UK)	Voiced by (US)
Bash and Dash	Twin tank engines who run on a logging railway on Misty Island.		Keith Wickham and Kerry Shale	William Hope and Kerry Shale
Ferdinand	A tender engine who works with Bash and Dash. The least obnoxious of the three, his vocabulary almost exclusively consists of the phrase "That's right!"	Climax locomotive	Ben Small	Glenn Wrage
Captain	A blue, red and yellow coast guard lifeboat at the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre. He speaks in a Cockney accent with nautical slang.	Liverpool-class lifeboat	Keith Wickham

Day of the Diesels

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Belle	6120	A blue tank engine who has firefighting equipment.	BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T	Teresa Gallagher
Flynn		A fire engine with an American accent who can run on both roads and railway tracks.		Rupert Degas, followed by Ben Small, later Rob Rackstraw
Den		A hydraulic diesel who runs the Vicarstown Dieselworks.	Rolls-Royce C range engines	Keith Wickham
Dart		A small diesel who is Den's best friend and assistant at the Vicarstown Dieselworks.		Rupert Degas, now Steve Kynman
Paxton		A green diesel shunter who is friends with the steam engines.	British Rail Class 08	Steve Kynman
Norman		A vermilion diesel engine with a unibrow. He is Dennis' twin.	British Rail 11001	Keith Wickham
Sidney		A blue diesel shunter.	British Rail Class 08	Kerry Shale, later Bob Golding

Blue Mountain Mystery

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Winston		A red track inspection vehicle who is Sir Topham Hatt's primary mode of transportation and the leader of the railway fleet.	Wickham trolley	Matt Wilkinson
Luke	22	A green narrow gauge saddle tank engine.	'Peter Pan', a 'Wren' class locomotive	Michael Legge
Merrick		A sleepy, snoring gantry crane who works at the Blue Mountain Quarry.		Matt Wilkinson
Owen		An orange stationary steam engine who powers an incline at the Blue Mountain Quarry.		Ben Small

King of the Railway

Name	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Stephen	An early steam engine who works at Ulfstead Castle on the Earl's estate.	Stephenson's Rocket	Bob Golding
Connor	An aquamarine streamlined tender engine from the Mainland.	New York Central Hudson	Jonathan Forbes
Caitlin	A magenta streamlined tender engine from the Mainland.	Baltimore and Ohio P-7	Rebecca O'Mara
Millie	A private light blue narrow gauge tank engine who belongs to Sir Robert Norramby and works on his estate.	Decauville No. 8069 Tabamar	Miranda Raison
Sir Robert Norramby	The current Earl of Sodor. At the beginning of the film, he returns to Sodor after traveling the world and announces his plan to restore Ulfstead Castle and build an estate and a tourist railway there. He previously appeared as the Duke of Sodor in the Railway Series books Very Old Engines and Duke the Lost Engine.		Mike Grady

Tale of the Brave

Name	Description	Voiced by
Gator	A green Colombian steam motor engine who looks like an alligator due to his name, shape, and size.	Clive Mantle
Timothy	An oil-burning saddle tank engine who works at the China Clay Pits with Bill, Ben, and Marion.	Tim Whitnall
Marion	An orange self-propelled steam shovel who works at the China Clay Pits with Bill, Ben, and Timothy.	Olivia Colman
Reg	A rail-based grappling crane who works on Edward's branch line at Crock's Scrap Yard.	Tim Whitnall

The Adventure Begins

Name	Number	Description	Voiced by
Glynn	1	A "coffee-pot" engine who worked at Thomas' Branch Line before he was taken out of service sometime prior to the events of the film.	Keith Wickham
Judy and Jerome		The two large sage green breakdown cranes who take their jobs as the breakdown train very seriously and form the same breakdown train seen in previous live-action productions, retroactively given names and personalities.	Teresa Gallagher and Tim Whitnall

Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Ryan	1014	A purple tank engine.	GNR Class N2	Eddie Redmayne
Skiff		A sailboat with a rail chassis. Like others, he sometimes runs on rails.		Jamie Campbell Bower
Mike		A small red tender engine who prefers goods trains to passengers.		Tim Witnall
Rex		A small green tender engine.		Tom Stourton
Bert		A small blue tender engine.		Keith Wickham
Sailor John		A pirate who tries to steal the pirate treasure. He owns Skiff and uses him as an unwilling getaway vehicle.		John Hurt

The Great Race, the 2016 movie, introduces 12 new characters and one from The Railway Series. In an effort to expand the preschool franchise beyond its current lineup of mostly male British characters, the new engines are from locations around the world and include 3 female characters.^[3]

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Ashima		A large pink tank engine who comes from India. She is meant to challenge Thomas, both in terms of being able to some things better than he and in terms of his being able to relate to someone very different from himself. She participates in the shunting race.	Nilgiri Mountain Railway X class^[4]^[3]	Tina Desai
Carlos	903	A small tender engine who comes from Mexico.^[3]		David Bedella in The Great Race and Gabriel Porras in Big World! Big Adventures!
Raul	166	A vertical-boiler tank engine who comes from Brazil and is inspired by the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]		Rob Rackstraw
Yong Bao		A tender engine who comes from China and is intended to capitalise on the franchise's growing popularity in China. Yong Bao later appears in Big World! Big Adventures!, which elaborates on his backstory.	China Railways RM^[3]	Dan Li
Shane	520	A tender engine who comes from Australia.	South Australian Railways 520 class^[5]
Vinnie	6407	A streamlined tender engine who comes from North America.	Grand Trunk Western U4-a	John Schwab
Etienne		A fast, electric engine who comes from France.	SNCF BB 9003-9004	Rob Rackstraw
Axel		A fast, streamlined tender engine who comes from Belgium.	SNCB Type 12	Rob Rackstraw
Gina		A small tank engine who comes from Italy.		Teresa Gallagher
Frieda	409	A big streamlined tender engine who comes from Germany.	DB Class 10	Teresa Gallagher
Rajiv		A tank engine who comes from the East Indian Railway in India.	Fairy Queen locomotive
Ivan		A diesel who comes from Russia.		Bob Golding

Journey Beyond Sodor

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Merlin	783	An experimental tender engine who is fitted with three stovepipe chimneys, which, as he falsely believes, give him the ability to turn invisible.	LSWR N15 class	Hugh Bonneville
Lexi		A boisterous American cab forward steam engine.		Lucy Montgomery
Theo		A shy experimental railway traction engine.		Darren Boyd
Hurricane	20	A cunning, large tank engine who has ten driving wheels and works at a Steelworks on the Mainland along with Frankie.	GER Class A55	Jim Howick
Frankie	4002	A manipulative diesel engine who works at the Steelworks with Hurricane and appears to be the more dominant of the pair.		Sophie Colquhoun
Beresford		A blue rolling gantry crane who is stationed on the Mainland. He speaks with a Jamaican accent.		Colin McFarlane

Big World! Big Adventures!

Big World! Big Adventures! is a tie-in with the twenty-second series, serving as a soft reboot of the franchise, and the final full-length CGI Thomas movie. Several dozen characters (mostly background characters) were introduced in this film; below are the ones who were named either in this film or in the following seasons of the show.

Name	Number	Description	Based on	Voiced by
Nia	18	An orange tank engine from Kenya who befriends and accompanies Thomas during his journey around the world. She teaches Thomas about friendship and accompanies him home at the end of the film and becomes a member of the Steam Team, replacing Edward.	KUR ED1 class	Yvonne Grundy
Kwaku		An African Garratt railway engine who is friends with Nia.	EAR 59 class	Abubakar Salim
Sam	906	A giant tender engine with 12 drive wheels who comes from America.		Rob Rackstraw
Beau	2735	An American tender engine who has a moustache and works at the Grand Canyon.	Jupiter locomotive	Kerry Shale
Natalie		A small American diesel shunter who works at an American Harbour in San Francisco.		Teresa Gallagher
Fernando		A teal diesel shunter from Brazil.	British Rail Class 08	Gabriel Porras
Shankar		A diesel shunter from India.		Sanjeev Bhaskar
Ace	43	An Australian rally car who inspires Thomas to become the first engine to travel the world and serves as the film's main antagonist.	Triumph Spitfire	Peter Andre
Emerson		An aeroplane from Brazil.	Beechcraft Super King Air	Gabriel Porras
Kobe		A hammerhead crane who works at Dar es Salaam Docks in Tanzania. He unloads cargo from ships.		Abubakar Salim
Cassia		A rolling portal crane who works at Guanabara Bay in Brazil.		Teresa Gallagher
Carter		A green gantry crane who works at a dock in San Francisco, California.		Matt Wilkinson
Charubala		The controller of the Indian Railway.		Sheena Bhattessa

References

^ "Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) Quotes". imdb.com. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
^ "Stanley - Character Profile & Bio | Thomas & Friends". web.archive.org. 2016-07-02. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Barnes, Brooks (25 March 2016). "Thomas the Tank Engine's Expanding World". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
^ "Thomas on track for new Aussie mate".
^ "Essential Kids - 'Thomas & Friends The Great Race' features first Australian train". Retrieved 6 April 2016.

[1] "Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) Quotes". imdb.com. Retrieved November 5, 2017.

[2] "Stanley - Character Profile & Bio | Thomas & Friends". web.archive.org. 2016-07-02. Retrieved 2023-03-17.

[expanding-3] Barnes, Brooks (25 March 2016). "Thomas the Tank Engine's Expanding World". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-31.

[4] "Thomas on track for new Aussie mate".

[5] "Essential Kids - 'Thomas & Friends The Great Race' features first Australian train". Retrieved 6 April 2016.

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