James the Red Engine/Trivia

* James is named after James Furze, a friend of Edmund Ward's son.
* James's catchphrase "Here's James!" seems to be a reference to Jack Torrance's catchphrase "Here's Johnny!" which is heard in the famous 1980 horror film *The Shining*.
* James was originally illustrated in *The Three Railway Engines* as the red engine who tried to push Henry out of the tunnel. However, children began sending letters to the Reverend W. Awdry asking why James was painted red prior to the events of *Thomas the Tank Engine*. In response, Awdry decided to make the Red Engine a completely different character altogether.
* In *Sodor: Reading Between the Lines*, James is said to have been sold to the NWR in 1923; this creates anachronisms with events laid out in *The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways*.
* In the first series, James was formally introduced in *Thomas and the Breakdown Train*, which was said to have been his first day on the railway. However, he had appeared in every prior episode as a background character. This may have been done to populate the sets, similar to how the Märklin Engine was used in later episodes.
* A large scale working replica of James was built by BBC Visual Effects for a tour in 2003, along with Thomas, Percy, Harold and Jack. The battery-powered locomotive is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest model railway engine ever built, at 2.64 x 1.5 x 6.52 metres.
* James has been shown to be quite popular among several people who worked on the series:
	+ Andrew Brenner has said in an interview that James is one of his favourite characters, along with Toby, Bill and Ben.
	+ Mara Wilson stated on Twitter that James was her favourite character.
	+ Sam Barlow has said in an interview that James is one of his favourite characters, along with Gordon, Victor and Kevin.
* In *Toby's New Whistle*, James revealed that he once had a three-chime steam whistle.
* James was the only character to have the most painted liverys.
* Since the twenty-first series, James along with Belle are the only characters to have the same voice actors in both English dubs, albeit with different accents. He is also the only male member of the Steam Team to have the same voice actor in both English dubs.
* In the French dub of the Model Series, James was known as *Jacques*.
* James' Wooden Railway, Wood, Plarail, Motor Road and Rail, Tomy and TrackMaster toys omit his pilot wheels, making him an 0-6-0 instead of a 2-6-0, much like the real members of his class.
* James is the only Steam Team member with a one-syllable name. He also has the shortest name out of all the Steam Team members in pronunciation terms.
* James is the only 2-6-0 (mogul) locomotive in the television series to be named and seen.
* Three of James' Wooden Railway toys (the original, lights and sounds and Team Colours variants) were among the toys that were part of the Lead Paint Crisis in 2005.
* One of James' models is on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum and is currently wearing his alternate happy face. It had previously been on display at Nitrogen Studios without a face. Another is now owned by ThomasTankMerch with two of his faces (smiling and clenched). Another one was on display with the other Steam Team, the Fat Controller, his crew, his car and Tidmouth Sheds on display at Drayton Manor and wore his happy face. Another was on display at the British Museum wearing his grinning face during the 70th anniversary along with his scale model used for the Wharf. His Wharf scale model was wearing his smiling face.
* James has a total of 15 face masks in the model series and 6 in the wharf scale.
* James' Polish name is *Kuba*, which means "Cuba".