Annie and Clarabel

## Clarabel

"*Thomas, can you please pick up the pace? We do need to get to Harwick, dear."
"And we need to get there today, love.*"
— Annie and Clarabel urging Thomas to speed up, Kana Goes Slow

**Annie and Clarabel** are a pair of coaches who live and work on the Island of Sodor.

## Personalities

Annie and Clarabel are very motherly and respectful towards the engines, however, they are rather prone to complaining.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Annie and Clarabel are based off of LBSC 4-wheeled Stroudley coaches.

Annie and Clarabel's Basis
### Livery

Both Annie and Clarabel are painted orange with grey roofs.

## Appearances

* Television Series
* Other Media

*Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go*
* **Season 1** - License to Deliver (*not named*), A Quiet Delivery, Kana Goes Slow, Music is Everywhere, Capture the Flag (*mentioned*), No Power, No Problem!, The Tiger Train, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks (*cameos*), Letting Off Steam (*cameos*), An UnbeLEAFable Day, Sir Topham Hatt's Hat (*cameos*), Nia's Surprising Surprise, and Song of Sodor (*cameos*)
* **Season 2** - Ashima's Amazing Arrival, Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon (*cameos*), New Mail Engine in Town, Christmas Mountain, Kana Recharges, Off the Rails, Diesel's Dilemma, Not-So-Secret Mission (*cameos*), A Very Percy Valentine's Day, and The Sights of Sodor

Movies
* **2021** - Race for the Sodor Cup (*cameos*)

Songs
* **Season 1** - Chugga-Chugga Snooze Snooze (*do not speak*), What Brave Engines Do (*cameos; music video only*), Blowing Off Steam (*cameos; music video only*), Celebrate, and Song of Sodor (*cameos*)
* **Season 2** - Christmas Spirit (*music video only*), What's Really Real (*does not speak*), and The Sights of Sodor (*cameos*)

### Videos

* **Watch Out, Thomas!** - Percy's Musical Mystery (*cameos*), Thomas' Messy Farm Adventure (*cameos*), Bruno's Easter Egg Mystery (*cameos; intro only*), Percy and the Mine Monster (*cameos; intro only*), and Thomas and the Pirate Treasure (*cameos*)

### Books

* **2022** - Meet the Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia
* **2023** - Thomas and the Christmas Mountain (*Annie only; cameo*) and Let's Learn Letters (*Annie only*)
* **2024** - Good Night, Thomas (*indirectly mentioned*)

### Games

* **2022** - Magic Tracks (*Annie only; loadable*)

## Trivia

* Since their last appearances in *Thomas & Friends*, Annie and Clarabel have gained notable changes in their designs:
	+ Their names have been replaced with ornate patterns. Clarabel's retains Annie's pattern, but has additional crests on either side.
		- While the exact reason for this change is unknown, it is most likely to keep their English names from appearing in dubs for those languages where one or both coaches are known by different names.
	+ The two now have iris colors: Annie's irises are orange, whilst Clarabel's are grey.
	+ The two now have eyebrows.
	+ Clarabel has gained freckles.
	+ Annie gained a guard's compartment.
	+ Both coaches no longer have visible doors. Passengers now enter and exit through their rears.
	+ They now have retractable ramps to allow passengers to disembark when not at a station platform.
	+ They gain the ability to move by themselves very short distances, though this is very inconsistent throughout the series.
	+ They now speak with Yorkshire accents in the UK dub from An UnbeLEAFable Day onwards, and no longer have Mid-Atlantic accents in the US dub.
	+ They are now used as regular passenger coaches rather than being solely owned by Thomas.
		- Despite this though, the Meet the Engines book still states that they belong to Thomas.
* Unlike in the original series, Annie and Clarabel have separate voice actors in the US dub instead of a shared one. However, in the Japanese dub of the original series, they also had individual voice actors.
* Annie and Clarabel are currently the only female characters created by Wilbert Awdry to appear in *All Engines Go*.

## Merchandise

* Motorized
* Plarail