Pug

**Pug the Pug Tank Engine** is one of the deuteragonists of the SeventyVerse and the twenty-fifth engine on the North Western Railway.

## Background

Pug worked on the LMS and Midland Region of BR alongside Jinty, Arthur and eventually, Rosie. While working there, Pug eventually met Percy on his runs to Barrow. Eventually, Pug was chosen to work while the engines were in London.

## Great Waterton crew

### Jinty

Pug and Jinty considered one another best friends. However, Pug easily gets frustrated if Jinty starts showing no signs of her filter. Pug was also the first engine to realise that Jinty was in fact a girl, not a boy, and started to call her as female pronouns.

### Barry

Not much is known about their relationship, but they both helped out the engines when they went on the London trip.

## Other relationships

### Percy

Percy and Pug were old friends when he visited Barrow-in-Furness. Pug was also chosen to work in Percy's place during the London trip, which the green engine is very grateful for.

### Arthur

Arthur worked on Pug in the London Midland Region. The tank engines also met up with Percy when he came to Barrow to tell stories of his escapades on Sodor. Arthur and Pug also worked to help out the engines on the London trip.

### Rosie

Rosie and Pug worked together on the London Midland region following Rosie's transfer. They also often met up with Percy when he told his stories of his escapades on Sodor. Pug and Rosie also helped out when the Sudrians went on the London trip

### Bill and Ben

Pug filled in for Ben when he and Bill went to London. Not much else is known about their relationship.

## Personality

Pug is definitely the more considerate and compassionate one of himself and Jinty. However, he can get a bit rallied up when push comes to shove, and Barry's snarky tendencies are rubbing off on him.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Pug is based on an LMS 0F Kitson 0-4-0ST. Pug in particular is one of the five from the original 1932 batch (originally built as numbers 1500-1504, later renumbered 7000-7004 and then finally British Railways 47000-47004), which had longer saddle tanks and shorter bunkers. Following the decline of steam, all ten 0F Kitsons were scrapped.

The name Pug is derived from a common term in Scotland for a small industrial shunting engine, typically an 0-4-0 tank. The engine Pug was based on, was built on the 30th of November 1935, withdrawn the 18th of January 1964, and scrapped August of the same year.

### Livery

Pug is painted blue with red lining and his number (25) on his sides.

Before arriving on Sodor, Pug was painted in the British Rail (BR) unlined mixed-traffic black livery.

## Differences from the books

* In the books, Pug most likely filled in for Percy (based on process of elimination). Here, he filled in for Percy on trip one, and Ben on trip two.
* Pug's gender wasn't specified in the books. Here, Pug is male.
* Pug gets repainted blue after he joins the North Western Railway and his number is 25. His old number was LMS 1504/7004/BR 47004. The '4' at the end is a nod to how Pug debuted in the fourth story of Eight Famous Engines.
* Pug never joined the NWR in the books, while he joined the NWR alongside Jinty in this series.

## Trivia

* As Flora is on the Rolling Hills Railway and Hank never came to Sodor, Jinty and Pug replace them as the newbies for the Series 12 part of the redux.
* Pug's preferred voice actor is Eddie Glen, Thomas' voice actor for *Thomas and the Magic Railroad*.