James (AEG)

## James the Red Engine

**James** is a red mixed-traffic tender engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor and is the North Western Railway's number 5 engine.

## Biography

James is a tender engine who lives on the Island of Sodor with Thomas and his friends. He is often seen doing odd jobs like pulling tankers or other pieces of rolling stock, as well as greeting other engines.

## Personality

James is proud of his shiny red paint work, and tries to keep it as clean as possible, but is always happy to see his friends and gives them a cheerful greeting whenever he passes by. He can pull any kind of cargo, but he mostly prefers to pull coaches. He is often shown to be quite careless, as he is constantly dropping cargo he is supposed to carry. However, like Gordon and Diesel, he is overall portrayed much friendlier than he was in the original series.

## Technical Details

### Basis

James is a 2-6-0 tender engine. He is loosely based on a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 28 0-6-0, however with an added pony truck making him a 2-6-0.

James' basis
### Livery

James is painted scarlet with dark red lining, gold boiler bands, and black wheels. He has the number five on his tender in yellow with a dark red outline. His running board, bufferbeams and valences are all red.

## Fan fiction

*If James (AEG) appeared in your fan fiction, you can add your own details about them here!*

## Names in other languages

 Spanish (Latin America)
 French
 Dutch
 German
 Italian
 Portuguese (Brazil)
 Russian
 Korean
 Mandarin (Taiwan)

## Voice Actors

* Tom Dussek (*UK; 2022-present*)
* Luke Marty (*UK; 2021-2022 - US; 2021-present*)
* Alex Minei (*Brazil*)
* Peter Zhelder (*Denmark*)
* Petri Hanttu (*Finland; first series only*)
* Joonathan Kettunen (*Finland; second series onwards*)
* Bruno Bulté (*France; License to Deliver - No Power, No Problem!*)
* Simon Duprez (*France; The Tiger Train onwards*)
* Heiner Kock (*Germany*)
* Orestis Milios (*Greece*)
* Dor Srugo (*Israel*)
* Marco de Risi (*Italy*)
* Kento Itō (*Japan*)
* Gabriel Juárez (*Latin America*)
* Mohammed Al-Nems (*Middle East*)
* Trond Teigen (*Norway*)
* Paweł Rutkowski (*Poland*)
* Rui Oliveira (*Portugal*)
* Lee Woo-ri (*South Korea*)
* Ignacio Castaño Gómez (*Spain*)
* Alexander Kantsjö (*Sweden; first series only*)
* Niclas Ekholm (*Sweden; second series onwards*)
* Ricardo Blei (*The Netherlands*)
* Ali Hekimoğlu (*Turkey*)
* Aled Evans (*Wales*)

## Trivia

* James is named after James Furze, a friend of Edmund Ward's son.
* In the original series, James was a part of the original and reformed Steam Team and was portrayed the overall tritagonist after Thomas and Percy. However, in *All Engines Go!*, his role is significantly reduced to a secondary/supporting character. Next to Gordon, however, he is the most reoccurring tender engine in the series.
* James' whistle from License to Deliver was a stock whistle sound effect. Coincidently, James used this same whistle sound in the live show, Thomas & Friends - The Big & All Aboard Live Tours.
* In storyboards for the first season episode, A Wide Delivery, James is shown with a different cab roof which more closely resembles the shape of Gordon's. This was later changed to more closely match the shape of his original cab roof.
* James is one of the only tender engines to keep their tender wheel-configuration. The others being Emily, Hiro, and Yong Bao.
	+ Ironically, along with others who have four wheeled tenders, both his Motorized and Push Along model has the same wheel of tenders.
* Even though in the Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (Board Book) as James says he prefers pulling passengers rather than trucks, he's mostly seen pulling trucks than passenger coaches in the show. More specifically, Annie and Clarabel are currently the only coaches he has pulled in *All Engines Go*.

## Merchandise

* Motorized
* Push Along
* McDonald's Toys

## Video

James Is The Best Character In All Engines Go