Nia

Nia is an orange Kenyan tank engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor and is the North Western Railway's number 18 engine.
== Biography ==
Nia used to work in Africa, which is also the place that she is from. That was until some diesel engines were looking for her in her shed. Nia tried her best to keep hidden and chuffed away as far as she can from Africa and found a ship to Sodor, in which she hopped onto and said her final goodbye to the diesels, hoping that they don't find away on Sodor and instead get scrapped. After she got onto Sodor, she went inside a place that had a lot of stickers of Mort from the "Madagascar" franchise and stayed there for a long time until many years later, Henry heard steam coming out of the room, which was now known as "The Backroom" and moved forward and uncoupled his trucks and peeked inside to see what was making that steaming sound in the backroom and found an orange engine who was unknown. Henry was so pleased that he decided to tell the rest of the engines and Sir Topham Hatt about this. A few days later, Henry showed Sir Topham Hatt the surprise inside and told him about it. Sir Topham Hatt found this pretty amusing, but was also happy and decided to call her Nia. Henry then showed her to James, Edward, and Thomas, who thought that she was a perfect fit for the Northwestern Railway. At first, Nia was pretty confused when it came to jobs, but soon after Duck taught her how to handle jobs correctly, she felt proud of herself and eventually learned English afterwards. Nia is now ranked as one of the best engines on the Island Of Sodor.
== Personality ==
Nia has an adventurous spirit. She loves to try new things and visit new places. Nia has also travelled more than any of her friends, and often has valuable insight into places Thomas has never been. She also has a love for music, dancing and singing, and has been shown to plan her routes all by herself.
== Trivia ==
* Nia is the only engine from the series to be from Africa.
* She is the second character to be from another country other than Sodor.
* She is the second orange steam engine, following Murdoch and preceding Billy, as well as the first orange tank engine in the series.
* She is also the third orange character in the series.
* She is the sixth female engine to be introduced in the series.
* She is said to share the mail job with Percy.
* When Thomas is not running his branchline, Nia or Sonic are sometimes assigned to run it.
Category:Female Characters
Category:Tank Engines
Category:Characters with Black eye color
Category:Steam Engines
Category:Orange Engines
Category:Sodor Adventures Characters