Island of Sodor

== General Info ==
The Island of Sodor, or simply Sodor, is an island in the United Kingdom. It is located in the Irish Sea, between England's Lake District and the Isle of Man. It is lead by the Duke of Sodor, Patryck and formerly lead by Sir Topham Hatt III. It ha a population of 60,000 with it's largest city being Tidmouth. It's capital is Suddery, but the Duke resides in Ulfstead Castle.
==Economy==
About half of the island is agriculturally based. Oats, barley, and turnips are major crops. Fishing is important too; the Tidmouth kipper is a prized dish at breakfasts far and wide. Lead, zinc and silver are mined, and the island stone has excellent weather-resistant properties. The native language, Sudric, is dying out, but the rugged and beautiful scenery and the fishing, particularly in the mountain lakes, attract holidaymakers from all parts. Bauxite is mined at Peel Godred by the British Aluminium Company. As this process requires a huge amount of electricity, a hydroelectric power station was opened nearby in 1923. Tidmouth now contributes to the country's revenues by being an excellent port, owned by the North Western Railway. Many travelling to Douglas or Belfast embark there rather than at Liverpool or Fleetwood.
==Railways==
===Current===
*North Western Railway
*Skarloey Railway
*Culdee Fell Railway
*Arlesdale Railway
*Sodor Scenic Railway 
*Skarloey Funicular Railway
*Sodor Tramways
*Estate Railway
*Vicarstown Tramway
===Former===
*"The Railroad"
*Sodor and Mainland Railway
*Wellsworth and Suddery Railway
*Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway
*Mid Sodor Railway
*Cronk and Harwick Railway
*Ballaswein Tramway
*Toby's Old Tramway
==Trivia==
*Sodor is approximately 62 miles east to west and 51 miles north to south.
*The patron saint of Sodor is St. Machan.
*Suddery is the capital city of Sodor.
*In Vicarstown, there is the Monument of Ballahoo to commemorate the brave soldiers and civilians of Sodor during the Battle of Vicarstown against the Redditors in 1853.
*According to the promotional videos for The Great Race, Sodor itself is its own country.
**Also, in the German dub of Journey Beyond Sodor, Thomas calls Sodor his "home country".
**This is not the case in The Railway Series.
**It could be that Sodor could be one of the many countries that make up the UK (similar to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).
**The WYSI British flag has the white in the center to represent the Island of Sodor, as that flag also has a horizontal white line in the center.
***While originally this was due to a mistake that was deemed funny, this is now the canonical reason as to why the flag is as it is.
*Sodor has its own flag, which consists of a white centre, two thin horizontal orange stripes on top of the centre, and two horizontal blue stripes on 
*top of the orange stripes.
*The Japanese dub of the television series states that Sodor is part of the United Kingdom.
*On the BBC game show, Pointless Celebrities, when the players were asked where Thomas the Tank Engine lives, twenty-five out of the one-hundred people remembered that it was the Island of Sodor.
*Numerous roads in the Preserve South district of Columbus, Ohio, within the Albany Chase apartment complex, are named after towns on Sodor, including Arlesdale, Brendam, Kellsthorpe, Knapford, Maithwaite, Tidmouth, Ulfstead, Vicarstown and Wellsworth, in addition to the Island itself.
*In 2021, Oxford named Sodor the United Kingdom's friendliest city to coincide with International Friendship Day.
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