Ashima

## Ashima of India

"*I didn't come to Sodor to see docks. I came to see all of you.*"
— Ashima explaining why she came to visit Sodor, Ashima's Amazing Arrival

**Ashima** is a colorful tank engine from the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India who often pays visits to the Island of Sodor.

## Personality

Ashima is a friendly and cheerful engine, and always enjoys seeing her friends, particularly the Sodor engines. She is also fond of dancing, gladly taking the offer to join her friends when asked. Ashima doesn't mind getting her beautiful paintwork dirty, as long as it means being a really useful engine.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Ashima is based on a Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) X class. She is mostly based on the oil-burning version of the engine, but also has the coal bunker of the coal-burning version.

Ashima's basis
### Livery

Ashima is painted hot pink with white and dark blue lining. Her front buffer beam is also painted royal blue. She bears several bright green, white and orange patterns, inspired by Indian textiles and Henna Tattoos.

## Appearances

* Television Series
* Other Media

### *Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go*

* **Season 2** - Ashima's Amazing Arrival and More Than a Pretty Engine

#### Songs

* **Season 2** - Welcome to Sodor (*does not speak*)

Videos
* **Watch Out, Thomas!** - Bruno's Easter Egg Mystery (*cameo; intro only*), Percy and the Mine Monster (*cameo; intro only*), Thomas and the Pirate Treasure (*cameo*), and Percy's Mail Adventure (*does not speak*)

Annual Stories
* **2025** - Ashima's Amazing Arrival

Books
* **2022** - Meet the Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia
* **2023** - Let's Learn Opposites
* **2024** - Meet Team Thomas!

Games
* **2023** - Go Go Thomas! (*dropped*)

## Trivia

* Since her last appearance in *Thomas & Friends*, Ashima has gained noticeable changes:
	+ She lost a set of driving wheels, making her a 0-6-2 rather than 0-8-2.
	+ Her trailing wheels became slightly smaller.
	+ She now has brown irises.
	+ She is much shorter in length.
	+ Her funnel became thinner.
	+ Her cowcatcher has decreased in size.
	+ The white lining around her wheels has been removed.
	+ The handrails on top of her boiler have been removed.
	+ She now has rivets around her smokebox.
	+ The decoration on her front bufferbeam has been removed, save for a row of green lines across the top.
	+ The white ruffle details on her tank panels have been removed.
	+ The white dots near the top of her cab are now gone.
	+ The third spots at the bottom of her smokebox are now pink.
	+ The decoration around the bottom of her dome is now gone.
	+ The decoration on her dome and cylinders have been flipped around.
	+ Her cab windows are now rectangular and have become much smaller.
	+ Her stepladders were removed.
	+ Her filler caps are gone.
	+ The handrails on her smokebox are no longer curved towards her face.
	+ She gained an extra set of upper wheels.
	+ Her upper wheels are now grey instead of royal blue.
	+ Her coal bunker drastically decreased in size to the point where it is not visible from most angles.
	+ The top of her boiler has been shortened.
	+ The siderods on her upper wheels no longer move.
	+ She no longer speaks with an Indian accent in the US dub.
	+ Her name is now pronounced correctly, stressing the first syllable of her name rather than the second.
* Ashima is the second international character to appear in *All Engines Go*, the first being Yong Bao.
* Unlike most of the other engines, Ashima's existence in *All Engines Go* was first revealed in undisclosed promotional material.
* Ashima is the first tank engine in *All Engines Go* to be portrayed as an adult rather than a child.
* Ashima is currently the only engine in *All Engines Go* to retain her siderods, albeit only on her upper wheel configuration.

## Merchandise

* Motorized
* Push Along