Lady

**Lady** is a small, Victorian-styled tank engine who serves as the guardian of the Magic Railroad, using her magic to keep the worlds of Shining Time and Sodor alive. She is owned and protected by Burnett Stone, her driver.

## Appearance

Lady is a freelance designed tank engine. She has a tall funnel, and 2 gold headlamps. Lady is painted red-violet with gold head lamps on her front footplate, tail lamp, gold buffers, smokebox, funnel top, dome, whistle, 4 driving wheels, side rods, lining and her name on each side in gold. She is also painted a very dark purple on her cab roof, lower funnel section and her footplate.

## Personality

Lady is a very special engine who holds the secret to the Magic Railroad. When she moves along the rails, she spreads Gold Dust with her special powers. She has been known to help Thomas and his friends, when there is no one else to turn to.

Lady is a kind, wise engine who is respectful to both humans and other engines alike. She tries her best to help others either directly or through dispensing sage advice. She appears to be friends with Thomas.

## Trivia

* Lady is the 1st standard-gauge steam engine in the television series not to be created by the Rev. W Awdry.
* She was the 1st female steam engine and tank engine introduced in the television series and the 3rd female engine overall (the 1st being Daisy and the 2nd being Mavis).
	+ She is also the 1st character to be voiced by an episode writer. Aiden would later be the second.
* Her face is only visible on the Island of Sodor and the Magic Railroad, but not in Shining Time.
	+ The fact that Lady's face is only visible when on Sodor most likely follows Awdry's golden rule of engines not having visible faces unless they were on Sodor. However, Thomas breaks this rule when he came to Muffle Mountain with his face still shown. The rule was broken yet again when Thomas went to different countries retaining his face in Big World! Big Adventures!
* Lady's ERTL prototype toy was a repaint of Rheneas/Smudger, albeit using a different (unused) face.
* Several promo images and toys incorrectly depict her cab roof, lower funnel section and her footplate black instead of dark purple. Both ERTL and Brio depict her lower funnel section gold instead of dark purple.
* Lady's whistle sound was later reused for Millie. It was mistakenly reused for Hiro, but in the Misty Island Rescue PC Game. It was also heard in the 2000 film, *How the Grinch Stole Christmas*, as well as the 2004 film, *Home on the Range*.
* Lady has a coupling on her back, but not on her front. The same would later happen with Lexi and Beau.
* Lady has a cover for her coal bunker.
* Lady's replica model is currently on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum.
	+ The replica model has exposed coal in her coal bunker.
* Originally, Lady was not going to have a speaking role in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, her only way of communicating was telepathically with Thomas when he was on Muffle Mountain and her whistle. In the original script, as Thomas can understand Lady telepathically, he can also understand her pain and sadness. Thomas talks to her, but gets no verbal response from her. She was later given lines to help smooth over cuts made to the film.
	+ Also in the original script and original cut of the film, P.T. Boomer was actually the real culprit who crashed Lady. When Burnett and Boomer were young, Boomer did not believe or understand anything about magic and was jealous of Burnett and Tasha's relationship. He took revenge and found Lady and threatened to destroy her if Burnett did not let him driver her. So Burnett gave in to the bully and Boomer drove Lady and he crashed her. After Boomer left, Burnett took Lady to his workshop in Muffle Mountain to fix her. 40 years later, Boomer returns as a dark and bitter character, bent on finding Burnett and digging into the mountain to find Lady and destroy her to complete his revenge and believes in greed and money.
* Lady was voiced by Britt Allcroft herself and is the only known role she had in terms of voice.
* In some games and her ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park, she had a bell sound, despite never physically having a bell on-screen although her dome does resemble a bell. This sound would later be reused for Flora. It was also mistakenly reused for Toby in some games as well as The Official Website, Speakaboos and Thomas' Magical Birthday Wishes.
* On 24th November 2017, the life-sized prop was listed for sale on LetGo. The model is currently in a state of disrepair, being repainted, the funnel shortened and details such as lamps, buffers, dome, whistle and coal bunker removed. The money ($2000 USD) had been gathered to purchase it. Lady was soon moved to a storage facility awaiting repair in Florida where it will be restored. But as of now, there were currently no plans to restore the prop.
	+ Her new owners go under the name "Restore the Magic"; a non-profit organization who have campaigned to try and release the director's cut to *Thomas and the Magic Railroad*.
* Lady had a total of 7 facial expressions, 4 of which were never shown on-screen. However, her smiling face appeared in her promotional image from Calling All Engines!.
* Lady always comes to Sodor.
* Lady uses gold dust for many things and she also lends it to Jc & Adyson. Once she produced gold dust to Isabella and the Fireside Girls causing them to fly and she gave Jc magical powers.
* Lady was about to be scrapped after being used as a Christmas decoration when Adelaide found and resored her and because of it they became best friends and because she was restored by a kid when she and Adelaide went to the magic railroad it stayed alived forever.
* Lady's helpers are Adyson & Abby.

## Quotes

* **So, Burnett, you didn't forget about magic, it's safe inside you.**
* **And helping each other brings to life the magic in all of us!**
* **We always finish our jobs when we work together.**