Millie

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> Anyone can rush! Sometimes I have to be quiet and patient. - Millie to Luke
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**Millie** is Sir Robert Norramby's private French narrow gauge engine. She works on the Estate Railway.

## History

### Thomas & Friends

Millie is a bubbly French engine who is owned by Sir Robert Norramby, and who runs the narrow gauge line at Ulfstead Castle, where she lives and works. Her duties include assisting the groundskeeper and taking visitors on tours of the estate. For this, she has her own open-topped carriages. While the Earl was travelling the world, Millie stayed in her shed at the castle.

Millie once swapped jobs with Luke. Although she struggled to adjust, she ended up loving the Blue Mountain Quarry, although she was pleased to return to her own job at the castle and even more pleased to have made friends with Luke.

While she was helping with construction of the Dinosaur Park, she was teased by Samson and Harvey for being afraid of the Megalosaurus model. She decided to pay them back by asking the groundskeeper to make a bonfire by the model volcano to create the illusion that it was actually active.

When Glynn arrived on the Estate Railway, Stephen became jealous of the Coffee Pot; Millie, however, was more welcoming. When Glynn asked her what the Earl was planning, she suggested he was planning on building a railway museum. After Stephen stated that he would conduct tours while Glynn would become an exhibit, Millie joked the opposite would be true. After the two old engines decided to have a race, a concerned Millie decided to tell the Earl. The Earl met the two at Knapford, where he confirmed Millie's theory that he was building a railway museum.

Once, when Millie was given extra work and spent the day collecting gravel from the Blue Mountain Quarry, Stephen neglected to do her regular chore of moving the garden waste. Fed up, Millie decided to teach Stephen a lesson by dumping the waste in front of his shed, only to get even crosser when Stephen mocked her in retaliation. The following day, Stephen could not find Millie, and worried that she had run away because of his teasing. Stephen left the estate to look for Millie, but ended up running out of water near Crovan's Gate. Luckily, Millie and the Earl found him and explained that they had only left to pick up a new motor for the castle turntable. Millie and Stephen made up their quarrel, and, once Stephen had taken on more water, headed back to the castle together.

### Lukeillie's Series

Millie was built in 1911 in France where she worked there for a while. The Earl first met her in France when he was looking for engines and artifacts to restore Ulfstead Castle. The Earl decided to get Millie and brought her to Sodor. Unfortunately, the Earl still had to look for more artifacts which lead to Millie being left in her shed for an unknown amount of years. With nothing to do, Millie only hoped she could be let out. Many years later, the Earl returned to Sodor ready to restore Ulfstead Castle and let Millie out giving her the job as his private engine.

Millie and Luke had a day off and it was almost ruined but they didn't care. She later tried to trick Stephen and Glynn after she found out they were planning on scaring her on Halloween and got a present from her friends on Christmas.

On New Year's, she tried to change her personality but stayed the same at the end. Some time later, Millie was sent to the Blue Mountain Quarry to collect lots of trucks and didn't want any help but when she realized that it was to much for her, she let Luke help her. Millie later broke a special carriage that was going to be used and thought she would get in trouble. Millie became a famous engine on Sodor and there was going to be a big party for her but she arrived late. Luke later spent Valentine's Day with her and later broke her whistle and didn't want a new one. Thomas helped convince her to get a new whistle and it worked. When Whiff got new glasses after he lost his original ones, Millie was one of the engines fascinated with him.

## Personality

Millie is a narrow gauge engine. She has worked on the Earl of Sodor’s Estate Railway for many years. She is very loyal to the Earl and her relationship is like that of a personal servant. They have fun together and are as close as many friends, but there is also a certain formality to their relationship. Millie is a youthful, fun-loving, friendly engine who is full of spirit and can be fiery when crossed. But she is also fair-minded and never spiteful. That said, she will take it upon herself to teach an uppity engine a lesson, should she feel the need. She always wants to do the best by the Earl and will defer to his judgement in all things, but when it comes to other engines, she has a mind of her own.

## Livery

Millie is painted blue with white lining, a golden running board, boiler bands and wheel spokes, and Sir Robert Norramby's crest on her cab sides.

Before Millie was part of the Estate Railway, she was painted green like her basis.

## Appearances

* Season 1 - Luke and Millie's Day Off, Millie's Halloween, and A Present for Millie
* Season 2 - New Year, New Millie, Pulling the Longest Trucks, Millie's Mistake, Famous Little Engine, Luke's Special Valentine, Millie's Whistle and New Glasses for Whiff
* Season 3 - A Millie Christmas
* Specials - Attack of the Philips

## Trivia

* Millie is the first and/or only of a few things:
	+ The first engine on the Estate Railway.
	+ The first narrow gauge engine to be modelled by Arc Productions, the second being Duncan.
	+ The first French-speaking engine in the series.
	+ The first and only female narrow gauge engine in *Thomas & Friends*.
	+ The only new narrow gauge character to be introduced following the Mattel takeover.
* Millie is the most modern of the Estate Railway engines, having been built at a later date than both Stephen and Glynn.
* Millie's whistle sound was originally used for Lady.
* In the twentieth series, Millie gained a tail-lamp.
* According to Sam Wilkinson she originally had a different name.
	+ Her original name remains unknown.
* Miranda Raison gives Millie a French accent, reflecting her basis' origins.

## Videos

The Fat Controller's Tales - Millie - UK - HDSir Topham Hatt's Tales - Millie - US - HD