Jinty

**Jinty the Jinty Tank Engine** is one of the deuteragonists of the SeventyVerse and the twenty-third engine on the North Western Railway. However, she and Pug were the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth engines purchased for the North Western Railway.

## Background

Jinty worked on the LMS and Midland Region of BR alongside Pug, Arthur and eventually, Rosie. While working there, Jinty eventually met Percy on his runs to Barrow. Eventually, Jinty was chosen to work while the engines were in London. Unfortunately, before she met Pug, Rosie and Arthur, she had tried to come out as a girl, but was bitterly ridiculed by everyone who she tried to tell.

## Great Waterton branch

### Pug

Pug and Jinty considered one another best friends. However, Pug easily gets frustrated if Jinty starts showing no signs of her filter. Pug was also the first engine to realise that Jinty was in fact a girl, not a boy, and started to call her as female pronouns.

### Barry

Not much is known about their relationship, but Barry did know Jinty's brother Hamish back on British Railways. They also both helped out the engines when they went on the London trip. Barry was also very supportive of Jinty when she came out as a girl. Likewise, she supported Barry when they came out as non-binary.

## Other relationships

### Thomas

Thomas unfortunately met Jinty when he confronted her (when she hadn't been 'out' yet) about making fun of Percy. Though the duo did patch things up later, things got sour again when Jinty made fun of Thomas when he crashed through a brick wall down a hill.

### Percy

Percy and Jinty were old friends when he visited Barrow-in-Furness. However, this didn't stop Jinty from making fun of Percy's shape, and they got into a brief feud over that.

### Arthur

Arthur worked on Jinty in the London Midland Region. The tank engines also met up with Percy when he came to Barrow to tell stories of his escapades on Sodor. Arthur and Jinty also worked to help out the engines on the London trip.

### Rosie

Rosie and Jinty worked together on the London Midland region following Rosie's transfer. They also often met up with Percy when he told his stories of his escapades on Sodor. Jinty and Rosie also helped out when the Sudrians went on the London trip. Rosie didn't find out Jinty was trans until they reunited on Sodor much later on.

### Bill and Ben

Jinty filled in for Bill when he and Ben went to London. Not much else is known about their relationship.

## Personality

Jinty is very cheeky and hot-headed, never one to think about what she says. However, deep down, this is her defence mechanism she'd created as she was often bullied for trying to come out as a girl. When she was on Sodor, she had been able to safely reveal her true self, and cooled down considerably.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Jinty is based on a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T. These class of engines were nicknamed Jinty, which comes from Scottish Gaelic. Jinty in particular is from the 1924 and 1925 batches (originally built as numbers 7100-7149, later renumbered 7260-7309 and then finally British Railways 47260-47309), which lacked the cutout in the side tanks.

A total of nine out of the original number of 422 3F 0-6-0 tank engines are preserved by herritage railways. Out of these, two (British Railways numbers 47279 and 47298) are from the same batches as Jinty. The engine Jinty was based on, 47287, was built October 1924, withdrawn on the 26th of October, 1963, and scrapped April of 1964.

### Livery

Jinty is painted in scarlet red with blue and yellow lining with black wheels with her number (23) on her sides.

Before arriving on Sodor, Jinty was painted in the British Rail (BR) unlined mixed-traffic black livery. The BR Cycling Lion crest was painted on Jinty's side tanks and the number 47287 was painted in white on Jinty's bunker.

## Differences from the books

* In the books, Jinty just filled in for Thomas. Here, he filled in for Thomas on trip one, and Bill on trip two.
* Jinty's gender wasn't specified in the books. Here, Jinty is transgender male-to-female.
* Jinty gets repainted red after she joins the North Western Railway (a nod to some of her siblings in RL preservation) and her number is 23. Her old number was LMS 7127/7287/BR 47287. This was based on some research done by the Youtube user, Sodor Island Models.
* Jinty never joined the NWR in the books, while she joined the NWR alongside Pug in this series.

## Trivia

* As Flora is on the Rolling Hills Railway and Hank never came to Sodor, Jinty and Pug replace them as the newbies for the Series 12 part of the redux.
* Jinty's preferred voice is Susan Roman, who voiced James in *Thomas and the Magic Railroad*.