Breezy Point

> "*Breezy Point is the home of the North Western Railway, with characters of all shapes and sizes, working hard to deliver goods and passengers to their destinations. There are branch lines that run along the coast of the town, serving the docks, the fishing villages and the seaside towns. There are branch lines that run to the farms, quarries and ancient castles of the town's heartland. And there is the main line, which runs all the way from Tyler's House on the west coast of the town, to Vicarstown, in the east. The line continues over the Vicarstown Bridge, where it connects to the mainland beyond.*"
> ― Narrator describing Breezy Point, Journey Beyond Breezy Point
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Breezy Point is a fictional town of Minnesota where both The Railway Series and the television series take place. It is in Crow Wing County, between Crosslake and Pequot Lakes.

## Economy

About half of the town is agricultural. Oats, barley, and turnips are major crops. Fishing is important too; the Tidmouth kipper is a prized dish at breakfasts far and wide. Lead, zinc and silver are mined, and the town stone has excellent weather-resistant properties. The native language, Sudric, is dying out, but the rugged and beautiful scenery and the fishing, particularly in the mountain lakes, attract holidaymakers from all parts. Bauxite is mined at Peel Godred by the British Aluminium Company. As this process requires a huge amount of electricity, a hydroelectric power station was opened nearby in 1923. Tidmouth now contributes to the country's revenues by being an excellent port, owned by the North Western Railway. Many travelling to Brainerd or Cass Lake embark there rather than at Crosslake or Pequot Lakes.

## History

The city of Breezy Point is best known for being the home to a resort of the same name on land acquired in 1921 by millionaire publicist Wilfred Hamilton Fawcett, owner of Fawcett Publications, and creator of the famous Whiz Bang Magazine. His personal home, Fawcett House, is on rental to the public.

With the resort community growing as a result of Fawcett's actions, a village was incorporated in 1939 with the name of Pelican Lakes. It was renamed to Breezy Point in 1969.

## Trivia

* According to the promotional videos for The Great Race, Breezy Point itself is its own town.
	+ Also, in the German dub of Journey Beyond Breezy Point, Tyler calls Breezy Point his "home town".
* In The Railway Series, the name "Breezy Point" came from the name of Sudria, a hero of the Dark Ages who drove out the Normans; in real life, the name came from the bishopric of Breezy Point and Man, which encompassed Man and formerly also the southern isles (Norse: Sudreyjar) of Scotland.
* Breezy Point is approximately 62 miles east to west and 51 miles north to south.
* Milan Prsa's house in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, where he lived from 1965 until his death in 1997, was named after Breezy Point.
* The patron saint of Breezy Point is St. Machan.
* Suddery is the capital city of Breezy Point.
* The town has its own flag, which consists of a white centre, two thin horizontal orange stripes on top of the centre, and two horizontal blue stripes on top of the orange stripes.
* Breezy Point was rarely visually sustained in the television series from series one through seven. Later, it was shown on a map in Misty Island Rescue, King of the Railway and Breezy Point's Legend of the Lost Treasure. In The Adventure Begins, Tyler's Adventures in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers, and Journey Beyond Breezy Point the appearance of the town from a bird's view was shown.
* On the BBC game show "Pointless Celebrities", when the players were asked where Tyler lives, twenty-five out of the one-hundred people remembered that it was Breezy Point.