Daisy

**Daisy** is a green diesel railcar who came to work on the Ffarquhar Branch Line after Thomas crashed into the Stationmaster's house. She now works on the Harwick Branch Line carrying out passenger duties, while Ryan runs the goods duties.

## Biography

Daisy is a diesel railcar, who has been known to consider herself "highly sprung and right up to date". She was brought to help run passenger services on Thomas' Branch Line, while Thomas was "indisposed" after running into the stationmaster's house. She can be hard to please, mostly indignant, and highly opinionated. She is extremely authoritative, trustworthy, and confident in herself and can sometimes boast of her abilities in particular situations, unconcerned, despite having never actually been in such a position before. She will sometimes presume she can show other engines a thing or two, despite knowing little on the matter, until she actually learns for herself.

After arriving on Sodor, Daisy insisted that she required delicate handling and considered pulling trucks and vans to be below her. She was very lazy and stubborn, but the Fat Director spoke severely to her, telling her that his engines must work hard and that he sends lazy engines away. However, the Fat Director felt she deserved another chance after she worked hard clearing up after an accident Percy had. Daisy is now good friends with the other engines on Thomas' Branch Line, tries to work much harder to be a Really Useful Engine and is better capable of handling things alone.

She can be described as a self-obsessed diva and is also vain about not wanting her interior to be dirty one bit. Despite changing for the better, Daisy is still snarky and irritable. Generally, though, Daisy is one of the more well-behaved diesels, as aside from minor squabbles she gets along with the Ffarquhar branch line residents rather well. Daisy can sometimes be heard speaking French, which indicates that she has knowledge in the language as well. She also matured greatly in a number of recent episodes, as she rarely made brooding remarks or patronizing comments, and instead began trying to help others.

Despite her increased maturity, Daisy's snobbish side is still very prevalent, as she still belittled Thomas, Annie and Clarabel on more than one occasion. While Daisy is typically well aware of how things are supposed to be done on Sodor, her ego can leave her to cast out common sense in favor of selfish vanity, often to the utter fury of passengers, engines, and crew alike, especially when the manner in question can be done trivially. This can turn away people who have previously admired her, and often leads to reprimanding from others.

Daisy was built especially for service on branch lines. After Thomas was sent to the Steamworks to have his bufferbeam repaired in 1955, Daisy arrived to do his work. Daisy was nasty to Henrietta, Annie and Clarabel, refused to sleep in the Ffarquhar engine sheds on the grounds that it was "smelly" and blatantly refused to pull freight because it was "bad for her swerves". Daisy later called Toby cowardly for having side plates and cowcatchers and claimed that one only needed to "toot and look them in the eye" to shoo animals away. This, of course, was proven false when Daisy tried to shoo an inquisitive bull named Champion and ended up being humiliated. Sir Topham Hatt I discovered that Daisy was lazing about and spoke to her sternly, saying that lazy engines were not welcome on his railway, but he gave her a second chance after Daisy helped clear up the mess made when Percy crashed into a train of stone. Daisy promised to change her ways.

## Basis

Daisy is based on the British Rail (BR)/Metro-Cammell Class 101/102 DMU. She is, however, a single railcar instead of the traditional two to four-piece units.

## Livery

When she first worked on Sodor in 1955, she was painted dark green with yellow stripes, red bufferbeams and white buffers. She also had the British Railways logo painted under her middle windows on both sides.

At some point before Christmas 1955, after joining the railway, she was given a new coat of paint and some new nameplates. She is now painted bright green, along with a golden nameplate on each side of her front and the initial “D1” painted on the right side of her front bufferbeam. She wears makeup, including eyelashes, red lipstick, blush and blue eyeshadow.

## Appearances

### Season 2

* Thomas Comes to Breakfast *(indirectly mentioned)*
* Daisy
* Bull’s Eyes
* Percy’s Predicament
* Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree *(cameo)*

### Season 6

* Edward the Very Useful Engine *(does not speak)*
* Jack Frost *(cameo)*

### Season 14

* Sodor’s Legend of the Lost Treasure
* The Way She Does It
* Snow Problem
* The Railcar and the Coaches
* The Missing Breakdown Train
* Ryan and Daisy

### Season 15

* A Most Singular Engine
* Springtime For Diesel
* Daisy’s Perfect Christmas

### Season 16

* Washout
* Daisy and Billy

## Gallery

Daisy’s current livery (1955 - present)Daisy’s D1 initial (1955 - present)Daisy’s nameplates (1955 - present)Daisy’s original livery (1955)Daisy’s original BR logo (1955)
## Trivia

* Daisy was the first female engine introduced in the series and the first diesel to permanently move to the Island of Sodor, as Diesel was not purchased until much later.
* Her gold nameplates on her front was inspired by some concept art for her CGI model in the official TV Series, where the production crew had originally planned giving her the same nameplates in the same place, only with a different text font. However, the finalised CGI model never had nameplates.