Rebecca

## Rebecca the Happy Engine

**Rebecca** is a new yellow engine that got send to the North Western Railway from the Mainland.

## Bio

Rebecca used to work on the mainland before coming to Sodor. She was very embarresed by her wheel slip problem, and still is to this day. She got teased by a lot of engines over on the mainland, this made her feel insecure about herself and her capabilities. Gordon has a dislike to her from the very first day, because he fears Rebecca will take over his express trains.

## Personality

Rebecca is shy, but very positive towards other engines. She tries to see the best in everyone, even in engines who are bullying her! She is a hardworking engine, and wants to be friends with everyone.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Rebecca is based on a Southern Railway (SR) "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class (also known as "Light Pacifics"), a class of 4-6-2 tender locomotives designed by Oliver Bulleid and built between 1945 and 1951. These engines were classified as mixed-traffic locomotives when introduced and used for a wide variety of passenger and goods trains, including famous expresses such as the 'Golden Arrow' and the 'Atlantic Coast Express'. The "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class engines were smaller and lighter versions of Bulleid's earlier "Merchant Navy" class, originally built with 'air-smoothed' casing, chain-driven valve gear and tenders with tall streamlined sides. Ten un-rebuilt members of the class have been preserved, one of them, Blackmoor Vale on the Bluebell Railway and another, Winston Churchill at the National Railway Museum. Another preserved member of the class, Swanage, appeared in Thomas and the U.K. Trip when the Ponkickies characters, Gachapin and Mukku were visiting several heritage railways.

While Rebecca is modelled on the un-rebuilt version of the locomotive, her tender design resembles the cut-down version used by rebuilt and un-rebuilt members of the class in British Railways service. Additionally, she features several differences over her real-life basis, including an altered front end with a larger and lower buffer beam, driving wheels which share the same design as Hiro's and plain disc wheels for her front bogie, trailing truck and tender, as opposed to the Bulleid Firth Brown disc wheels found on her prototype. Rebecca's cylinders and cab roof also have a significantly different shape compared to those on the real "Light Pacifics".

### Livery

Rebecca is painted sunshine yellow and navy with white lining. Her wheel rims are painted white, her front end is painted red and she has red and orange stripes painted along her sides. Rebecca also has two blue nameplates on her smoke deflectors with her name painted on them in white. Her number (22) is painted on the sides of her cab in white and the initials "**N.W.R.**" are painted on the sides of her tender, also in white.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* New Engine on the Mainline
* Rebecca's Runaway
* The World's Your Oyster
* Changes on the Railway
* Feeling Blue
* Newcomer Nia (*cameo*)
* Rebecca's Redemption
* Nia's Snowy Adventure (*cameo*)

### Season 2

* Rosie & Mavis (*cameo*)
* Super Rescue
* Being James
* A Christmas to Remember (*does not speak*)

### Shorts

* Day in the Life of Rebecca the New Engine
* Henry Sees Red