The months passed. Toby had few trucks, and fewer passengers That day [Toby's last] Henrietta had more passengers than she could manage. They rode in the trucks and crowded in the brake van. This was a common occurrence during the closing of real railway lines; demand decreased to an unprofitable amount, but services were often full for the last workings of steam. On Awdry's model railway, Toby was represented by a Y6, an locomotive similar to but smaller than the J70 and better suited to the 4-wheel motor bogie available to power the model.
In , Awdry wrote an article for Railway Modeller magazine on the construction of this locomotive. Christopher Awdry has said that Toby is his favorite character, partly because he was there when his father received the inspiration to create him, but also because as a child he had traveled in the cab of two J70s.
Toby is introduced in the seventh book in The Railway Series. The first story, "Toby and the Stout Gentleman" describes the closure of Toby's branch line due to the lack of passengers and freight. Shortly before the line was to close, a "stout gentleman" arrived on a holiday with his family; the children rode on Toby everyday for a fortnight and the stout gentleman gave Toby's crew a present. The day after the Tramway closed, ironically after an overcrowded final journey by Toby and Henrietta, a letter arrived from the stout gentleman which was to give Toby a reprieve.
In "Thomas in Trouble", Thomas encounters an officious policeman, who says that, when running from the quarry, along public roads, engines who have the right to go on public roads must be fitted with cow-catchers and sideplates for safety to prevent people and animals from getting killed if they should have the right to stray onto the line. The Fat Controller , urgently needing to rectify this, is discussing the fitting of these, when Thomas remarks that "everyone will laugh The Fat Controller the "stout gentleman" remembered Toby immediately and arranged for him to come to Sodor.
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Information Privacy Policy Cookies. Collectors Club Bachmann Collectors Club. All rights reserved. Powered by K8 Web Builder. He is careful with every job he undertakes, causing him to rarely have any accidents. Toby's main duties are taking workmen to and from the quarry as well as taking stone and slate from there to the harbour alongside Percy. He also does mixed traffic duties, both on the branch line and main line.
He originally lived at Great Yarmouth Docks, Norfolk with his brothers. Sometime between June and January Toby was chosen to be an attraction at a seaside village's festival and was repainted and polished for the event. However, after helping their branch line's engine and seeing how smart he looked, the branch line was afraid that he would show them up and did not let him join in the festival.
After that he worked on an unnamed tramway in East Anglia. In , Toby came to work at the quarry on Thomas' Branch Line after his tramway closed, as it was found to be illegal for Thomas to go on the Quarry Tramroad without side plates or cowcatchers.
At first, Toby was teased by James for his shabby paint. However, James stopped teasing him after he crashed into some tar tankers. Toby also got into a bit of trouble with a diesel shunter named Mavis , as she was unwilling to shunt trucks where they needed to be placed.
After an accident, the two engines made up their quarrel and became good friends. When Mavis was sent to the works after her accident with a lorry, Toby did her work at the quarry, leaving Percy to do Toby's work as well as his own. Toby once came off the rails at a crossing when the earth was swollen over the rails and ended up on the road.
Luckily, with the fireman guiding the driver , they managed to reverse Toby back on the rails. The Fat Controller , however, heard about it, but rather than being cross, he only joked with him and told him that he should leave the roads to what they were made for. By , Toby was having trouble taking the workmen to the quarry as Henrietta did not have enough room in her to carry them all at once.
Bertie usually helped, but one day, he was ill and Henrietta was so full that some workmen even had to ride on her balcony. As he went past a part of his line that went through a town, he stopped quickly when a car came out of a side street and nearly collided with him.
To make matters worse, a policeman witnessed the workmen riding on Henrietta's balcony. After he made a report, an inspector spoke to the quarry manager, telling him that passengers were not allowed to ride on coach balconies. Luckily, Thomas managed to help Toby when he found an old and worn out coach named Victoria , who was used as a summer house for many years when she was taken out of service.
Victoria was eventually restored and now works with Toby and Henrietta along their line. When the Horrid Lorries arrived on the Island, Toby found his work at the quarry being taken over by Lorry 2 and his work at the mill being taken over by Lorry 3. When the two lorries became damaged and sent back to the docks, Toby threw Lorry 2's remarks about usefulness back at him.
After many weeks of rain, Toby inspected a dam for potential damage due to rising floodwaters along his branch line. While crossing the dam, Toby found that it was breaking and tried to return to safety, but the dam collapsed just as Toby was crossing a wooden bridge, which broke off and carried Toby toward a waterfall.
Harold managed to drop one end of a rope to Toby and the other end to Percy, who pulled Toby to safety. Afterwards, a party was held for Toby and the Fat Controller praised Toby's bravery.
While taking his grandchildren to the seaside, the Fat Controller decided to go with Toby for an exploration in search of a castle, which they found as well as a mine. Toby was scared of the mine's spooky atmosphere believing it was haunted and stayed on guard at night during its restoration.
After this, the two engines became good friends and now take visitors to and from the castle and mine. Toby once took the Fat Controller's family on vacation again, this time to a small river inlet.
Toby has had several winter escapades; thick fog once concealed Thomas' crash site from Toby's view and the foghorn had been damaged from the landslide Thomas had crashed into. Luckily for them, Cyril the Fogman managed to place a detonator on the rails to warn Toby just in time.
During the holidays, Toby was unable to clear the snowdrifts by himself, so he needed Thomas' help to deliver a Christmas tree to the festivities on his branch line. During one harsh winter, Toby had to rescue Farmer McColl 's lambs that were trapped on a hillside.
Toby sometimes thinks he is too old and that he is not a proper engine, like when Gordon called him a "slowcoach" when climbing up Gordon's Hill or when he thought he would be put on display in a museum.
Toby was given a temporary three-chime whistle while his bell was being cleaned at the Steamworks. It helped with warning Thomas and Gordon that the tracks were blocked. He once was scared of Knapford Junction. Toby once ran out of coal while delivering scrap to Wellsworth Scrap Yard and after a few unsuccessful attempts at stopping passing engines to ask for some of their coal, Reg decided to lift Toby into the air so that the next engine would see him.
However, Thomas passed by and thought Reg was about to scrap Toby. After the story spread across the island, Emily took Henrietta to the scrapyard so that Toby could explain the truth.
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