Gordon

Gordon is a big blue express engine who works on the Main Line. He is Flying Scotsman's only remaining brother. Gordon is also one of the fastest and strongest engines on the Island of Sodor, and his main task is to pull the Express. At times, this leads to him feeling superior.

## Trivia

* Gordon is named after a rude boy that lived on the Awdrys' street when Christopher was a child.
* One of Gordon's models was on display at Nitrogen Studios, but is now on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum.
* The Halloween Engine in the eighth season episode, Halloween, was recycled from one of Gordon's scrap models.
* In real life, Gordon's Shooting Star look would be too large for the British loading gauge.
* Gordon's upset face is used for Boulder in Rusty and the Boulder.
* In the Greek narration of the Classic Series, Gordon is called Johny. From thirteenth season onward, Gordon has been referred to with his original name.
* According to the Rev. W. Awdry in the book The Thomas the Tank Engine Man, the reason why Gordon has square buffers is because not long after he got his new safety valve following the events of The Three Railway Engines, he was showing it off and not paying to his surroundings. He crashed into the end of the "Big Station" at Tidmouth, damaging his buffers and had to go to the Works to have them replaced. The only buffers available were long, square ones, which Gordon despised at first, but soon got used to them and became proud of being the only engine on the railway with square buffers. Then Henry had a similar incident to Gordon and got square buffers himself (explaining the illustration error in "Thomas and the Guard"), now the subject of buffers offends Gordon greatly when mentioned to him.
* Two of Gordon's face masks, one grinning and one eyes shut, are now owned by Twitter user Thomas Merchandise.
* In Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie and Big World! Big Adventures!, Gordon and Thomas are the only members of the Steam Team to be the exact same color.
* Gordon has said the phrase *O the indignity* 38 times, two of which (one of them being Gordon saying "The Indignity") were from the New Series. Both times were from Calling All Engines!
* Gordon has went through several aesthetic changes in the television series:
	+ Season 4:
		- His brake pipe is facing downward.
		- He shares the same whistle sound as Duck in nearly all of his roles.
		- The eyebrows on his first shocked face are thickened.
	+ Season 5:
		- He regained his old whistle sound, excluding "Bye George!".
	+ Thomas and the Magic Railroad:
		- His brake pipe is facing upward again.
		- He gained red lining on the cab side of his tender.
		- His trailing wheels became larger and moved forward, joining to his driving wheel chassis.
		- The wonky eyebrow on his second shocked face is corrected.
	+ Season 6:
		- The lining on his pistons was moved slightly inwards.
	+ Season 8:
		- His eyebrows become thinner and arch more.
	+ Season 10:
		- His cylinders, which appeared to be broken, were fixed.
		- His eyebrows change shape completely.
	+ Season 12:
		- The lining on the cab side of his tender was removed.
	+ Hero of the Rails:
		- He lost facial detail; wrinkles on his forehead when cross or worried.
		- He became slightly bigger.
	+ Season 13:
		- The middle sections of his driving wheels are painted black.
	+ Season 17:
		- He gained a permanent head lamp and tail lamp.
		- His wheels are fully blue again.
	+ The Adventure Begins:
		- His side rods become silver.