page_title: Percy the Small Engine
section_title: Heritage Railways Replicas
hierarchical_section_title: Percy the Small Engine / Heritage Railways Replicas
caption_attribution_description: English: Percy the Small Engine, an 0-4-0 tank locomotive, from the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends books and TV series. Photographed on 14 August 2005 at Llangollen station during a Days Out With Thomas event on the Langollen Railway. Photographed from the town bridge in Llangollen.
context_page_description: Percy the Small Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic steam tank engine from The Railway Series of children's books written by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. He also appears in the spin-off television series Thomas & Friends.
  Percy lives on the Island of Sodor with many other locomotives, including Thomas the Tank Engine, Gordon the Big Engine and Henry the Green Engine. He is the smallest, youngest and probably cheekiest, of the principal steam engine characters. He carries the number 6 on his bunker.
  The Fat Controller brought him to Sodor when there was an engine strike due to a shortage of shunting engines. The bigger engines initially tried to bully him, but Percy soon showed that he was more than capable of standing up for himself. After a few years of shunting at the Big Station, the Fat Controller promoted him to goods traffic on Thomas' branch line. When not pulling trucks, he can be seen pulling the post train or even taking Annie and Clarabel when Thomas is busy. Percy's best friends are Thomas and Toby. He is also known to have a great respect for Edward ever since his first appearance.
context_section_description: Strasburg Rail Road, in the United States, announced the introduction of a Percy replica for the American Day Out With Thomas events on September 13, 2014. One Narrow Gauge model and one Standard Gauge model were made, and much like with many of the other Thomas replicas in the United States, he is a dummy engine and so cannot operate without another locomotive pushing him.
  The Oigawa Railway also has a replica of Percy, built out of a former JNR Steam Locomotive that no longer operates on the railway. The replica sits on display at Senzu Station alongside a JNR Class 9600 engine that is dressed up as Hiro.
caption: A mock-up "Percy" at a Day out with Thomas event on the Llangollen Railway
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