Q 01/05

What are the names of the two faithful carriages Thomas pulls along his branch line?

A) Isabel and Dulcie

B) Annie and Clarabel

C) Ada and Mabel

D) Gertrude and Millicent

Answer · why

B) Annie and Clarabel

Annie and Clarabel came with the branch line Thomas was given as a reward, and he loves them dearly, though in one early story he steams off and leave...

Q 02/05

Which of Thomas's fellow engines is bricked up in a tunnel after refusing to come out in the rain?

A) Donald

B) Henry

C) James

D) Duck

Answer · why

B) Henry

Henry stayed walled in until a train broke down that one engine could not shift alone, and he was let out to help pull it.

Q 03/05

Thomas is modelled on tank engines of a railway linking London with which resort?

A) Blackpool

B) Brighton

C) Scarborough

D) Bournemouth

Answer · why

B) Brighton

Brighton: Thomas was drawn as an E2 of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Only ten were built and every one was scrapped in the 1960s, so n...

Q 04/05

In his first book, Thomas fetches what for the bigger engines?

A) Coal

B) Coaches

C) Trucks

D) Water

Answer · why

B) Coaches

Coaches: when he teased the express engine once too often, it set off before Thomas could be uncoupled from them and dragged the little shunter along ...

Q 05/05

Which book launched Awdry's series in 1945, a year before Thomas appeared?

A) James the Red Engine

B) Troublesome Engines

C) Tank Engine Thomas Again

D) The Three Railway Engines

Answer · why

D) The Three Railway Engines

The Three Railway Engines had no Thomas in it at all, and its first pictures so displeased Awdry that the whole book was later redrawn by another arti...