Bertha and Briana

**Bertha and Briana** are a pair of twin tender engines who work on The Transportainian Main Line.

## Personality

Both Bertha and Briana are hard workers, and take great pride in doing whatever job they're given. When they first arrived on Transportonia to join the Swanson Fleet however, they were both stuck up snobs who saw themselves as the best engines of the whole fleet. But, after the two engines had gotten into a few sticky situations (each), they learned that being a part of a team is better than going it alone with each other.

Nowadays, they use their strength to help out their fellow engines, no matter if they were either a part of the Swanson or Peterson Fleet. They also often try to warn other engines who might be getting themselves into carloads of trouble, in addition to taking any sort of rule bending or breaking quite seriously. They can also be a bit cheeky at times, like the time they played an April Fool's joke on Bill and Ben.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Both Bertha and Briana are based on the Southern Railway "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class (also known as "Light Pacifics"), a class of 4-6-2 tender locomotives designed by Oliver Bulleid and built between 1945 and 1951. These engines were classified as mixed-traffic locomotives when introduced, and used for a wide variety of passenger and goods trains, including famous expresses such as the 'Golden Arrow' and the 'Atlantic Coast Express'. The "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class engines were smaller and lighter versions of Bulleid's earlier "Merchant Navy" class, originally built with 'air-smoothed' casing, chain-driven valve gear and tenders with tall streamlined sides. Ten unrebuilt members of the class have been preserved, one of them, Blackmoor Vale on the Bluebell Railway, and another, Winston Churchill at the National Railway Museum. Another preserved member of the class, Swanage, appeared in Thomas and the U.K. Trip when Gacaphin and Mukku were visiting several heritage railways.

While both Bertha and Briana are modelled on the unrebuilt version of the locomotive, her tender design resembles the cut-down version used by rebuilt and unrebuilt members of the class in British Railways service. Additionally, she features several differences over her real-life basis, including an altered front end with a larger and lower bufferbeam, driving wheels which share the same design as Hiro's, and plain disc wheels for her front bogie, trailing truck and tender, as opposed to the Bulleid Firth Brown disc wheels found on her prototype. Rebecca's cylinders and cab roof also have a significantly different shape compared to those on the real "Light Pacifics".

Rebecca, Gwen, Chloe, Cassandra, Vicky, Sapphire, and Grace is other members of this class.

Basis
## Livery

Bertha and Briana are both in different shades of blue. They also have blue and white nameplates on their sides as well as have the numbers "44" (Bertha) and "45" (Briana) painted on the sides of their cabs.

## Trivia

* Bertha and Briana were originally going to be based on a LMS Stanier 5MT "Black Five" 4-6-0.

* Bertha and Briana's models are reused from TTN1GWR's Rebecca model.

## Voices

### Bertha

* AndreaR (Main Voice)

* TBA (Backup)

### Briana

* AndreaR (Main Voice)

* TBA (Backup)