Emily (Thomas & Friends)

Little Lady Long Funnel (by Diesel)

Emily The Late Engine (by The Trucks)

Lassy (by Donald)

Big Bossy Boiler (by Thomas)

Best Friend (by Edward, Henry, Marion and Philip)

**Emily** is a Stirling Single tender engine who has a big heart and acts as a sisterly figure to the other engines despite being fussy and impulsive at times. Following her rescue of Gordon from a collapsing bridge and James, Percy and Rebecca from a derailment, she was rewarded with being appointed safety engine, gaining her number twelve with it.

She works mostly on the Main Line and once ran the Misty Valley Branch Line. She also has her own set of coaches.

## Appearance

Emily is a beautiful tender engine, who's painted emerald green with yellow lining and brass fittings. Her running-boards are painted chocolate brown and her buffers were originally bronze, but have since turned silver, and she has two big driving wheels and a tall funnel. For the Great Railway Show, gold trim and flowers were added to her livery for her participation in the best-decorated engine parade. After she returned to Sodor, she was painted into her original livery.

From the twenty-fourth series episode, Emily to the Rescue onwards, Emily has her number 12 painted on the middle square on the sides of her tender in tan with chocolate brown borders.

## Personality

Emily was introduced as being kind, caring, helpful, mature, compassionate and always sensitive to the feelings of others. If she wrongs someone, knowingly or not, she is quick to apologise.

From the eighth to the sixteenth series, Emily had an occasional habit of being fussy, bossy, rebellious and rude to others, such as not saying "Thank you" to Trevor and annoying Elizabeth over a fallen water tower, causing havoc whilst pulling the express, being rude to Edward, and pestering Thomas over getting his snowplough fitted. She strove to be the best and sometimes caused mishaps, but always made up for them when she realised her errors.

From King of the Railway onwards, Emily has been portrayed more closely to her original personality, along with subtler shades of overconfidence. She often acts as a voice of reason, particularly when James gets too big for his wheels, or when a friend needs moral support. Recently, she has also been shown to be adaptable, able to think of a plan in a moment's notice. She is somewhat prone to jealousy or feelings of inadequacy, often longing for more excitement in her life when she hears of others' adventures, or for the same talents as them.

## Trivia

* Emily was the second female steam engine and the first female tender engine introduced in the television series, as well as the fourth female engine in the television series overall, the first being Daisy, the second being Mavis, and the third being Lady.
* Michael Angelis, Pierce Brosnan and Teresa Gallagher have all given Emily a Scottish accent reflecting the origin of her designer. Due to one episode and one special featuring her having an English narrator, she ends up with a Scottish accent in the US dub. Other productions featuring her with a speaking role give her an American accent in the US dub. Rachael Miller retained the UK narration's Scottish accent in Thomas' Magical Birthday Wishes.
* Emily's television series model is part of the touring Thomas and Friends: Explore the Rails exhibit and is wearing her alternative content face mask. It had previously been on display at Nitrogen Studios.
* Emily is the first character besides Thomas himself to say his catchphrase, "Cinders and ashes!", which was done in the thirteenth series episode, "Tickled Pink".
	+ Coincidentally enough, Emily is also the first character other than Thomas to say the show's rebranded opening monologue, "All aboard for a big adventure." She does so in "Rangers of the Rails".
	+ She is also the only member of the Steam Team besides Thomas to do so.
* Some literary articles show Emily being sisterly mostly to Thomas and James. According to a magazine bio, she has a particular fondness for James and treats him like a little brother. In Railway Rhymes, the author states that Thomas and Emily act like brother and sister.
* According to Emily's Slide Show, Emily was built around the same time as Donald and Douglas.
* Before *Big World! Big Adventures!*, Emily was the only member of the Steam Team not created by Wilbert Awdry, as well as the only female member up, the only member who was not introduced in *The Railway Series* and the first series, and its newest member until Nia and Rebecca's debuts. Up until the twenty-fourth series, she was also the only member to lack a number, both before and after the addition of Nia and Rebecca (and if one doesn't count Stanley). Despite this, she remains the only female Steam Team member not to have nameplates.
* Prior to the twenty-third series, she was the only Steam Team member without black buffers (which happened as a goof):
	+ Although she lacks black buffers in the show (outside of Chucklesome Trucks), Emily has been depicted with black buffers in many magazine stories and some pieces of merchandise as well as in Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!.
	+ Emily is one of only two characters to have bronze buffers, then gain silver ones; the other is Spencer. Likewise, she and Spencer are also the only characters introduced in the seventh series to appear in full CGI.
* According to Robert Gauld-Galliers's concept art, Emily was originally going to have handrails on top of her smokebox, three front coupling chains and a gold builder's plate on her wheel arch. The handrails, though not present on the original model, would later be added as part of the twenty-third series updates to the Steam Team.
* During the model series era, Emily had a total of seventeen facial expressions, two of which (disgusted and wincing) that were not used on-screen.
* Emily is the only remaining female engine in the series thus far with separate English voice actors.
* Emily was the first steam engine in the series to be seen with only two drive wheels and the first engine overall to gain her number on-screen.
* Emily's Ertl bio states her large driving wheels cause her to struggle with traction, a factor that affected her basis. However, this has never been stated nor shown in the show.
* Emily shares her name with Hilary Fortnam's granddaughter. Fortnam was the youngest daughter of *The Railway Series* creator Wilbert Awdry.
* Emily, along with Nia, is the only character in the Steam Team not to have a British accent.
* Emily's seventh series whistle sound would later be used for Peter Sam and Freddie from the ninth to twelfth series (For Peter Sam) and the tenth to twelfth series (For Freddie):
	+ Before Thomas & Friends, the whistle sound had previously been used in the *Barney & Friends* episode, "All Aboard!".
	+ Emily's whistle sound used in *Calling All Engines! to the twelfth series* is the same one Edward had in the fourth to the fifth series episode James and the Trouble with Trees and the game that's only available in Japan, Thomas the Tank Engine (Kids Station Game).
* Unlike Rosie, Nia, Rebecca and Duchess, there appears to be no specific logic to giving Emily the number 12. The other 4 aforementioned engines were numbered based on numerical statistics related to the characters and the show.

## Quotes

* **Number twelve safety engine to the rescue!**
* **The emergency siren! I must be the closest. Rocky, here I come!**
* **Perhaps there's something on the line..like a hay cart!**
* **Wow! An elephant and a dinosaur! And I'm just delivering sand.**