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The Hackenbeck Witch

The **Hackenbeck Witch** is 19th episode of Mini Series 1990s. It is the second episode set on Sodor in the Mini Series 1990s and the third in the whole series.

## Plot

Following the accident at Wellsworth Bank, the NWR had taken Argus out of service as an investigation into the coupling failure and Raven is Killarney is returned to the MSR due to boiler issues. As a result, Ella Johnson is brought in to cover replica 4-4-0's work on the Ffarquhar line.

Outside of Mathwaite is an old tunnel, known to many engins as Hackenbeck Tunnel by known to the line's older residents as the "Hackenbeck Witch's Tunnel" following sightings of a young female in stereotype witch-like clothes in and around the grounds of the tunnel in either day or night. When Thomas was heading a milk train down towards Mathwaite, he encounters a figure on the line ahead of him.

## Characters

* Ella Johnson
* Thomas
* Percy
* Reo and Rao
* Wantail
* Annie and Clarabel
* Windcombe
* Unnamed BR Class 47
* Toby (mentioned)
* Megumin
* Maitwaithe villagers
* NWR construction workers
* Crovan's Gate worker
* Mehano (cameo)
* Jacob (cameo)
* Other BR class 47s (mentioned)
* Mrs Kyndley (mentioned)
* King James I (mentioned)
* Killarney (mentioned)

## Locations

### Sodor

* Ffarquhar
* Maitwaithe
* Hackenbeck
* Hackenbeck Tunnel
* Anopha Quarry
* Crovan's Gate Works
* Vicarstown Recycling Co.
* Knapford yards
* Elsbridge (mentioned)
* Elsbridge River Viaduct (mentioned)
* River Els (mentioned)

### Moorland Steam Railway

* Dent River Viaduct (mentioned)
* Gladsville (mentioned)

## Trivia

Hackenbeck Tunnel's fictional nickname and history was to differ from the same tunnel created by the Rev. W. Awdry.

This episode, along with the previous episode, is the second episode in a row set on Sodor and the second Halloween-themed episode made as a build up to the Halloween Special Fowler's Ghost.

This episode is the second episode to show the whole Ffarquhar line since the Stories from the Wars episode 'Spitfire'.

* All the sets were rebuilt following their appearance in that episode.

The working title for this episode was "Hackenbeck Phantoms" and was going to include some of the people killed in the construction of Hackenbeck Tunnel, but was changed to have only one ghost focused on.

This is the only episode to ever mention Mrs Kyndley and reveal her fate in the series after WWII.

The events of the episode take place in August 1996.
Over the Hill, One Last Charge

**Over the Hill, One Last Charge** is the tenth episode of The Series 1960s. As the Somerset & Dorest Joint Railway was set to close, the Moorland Steam Railway's newly restored locomotive Stovold is chosen to head the railtour.

## Locations

* Bath Green Park
* Templecombe

## Trivia

The episode is based off railtours that were operated by the Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) in the 1950s and 1960s and the closure of the S&DJR on 7th March 1966.
Snowdrift at Holden Bank

**Snowdrift at Holden Bank** is the first episode of The Series 1990s. When a hard Winter impacts the railway's operations and Zac gets stuck in a snowdrift. Sigrid and Giant have to help keep the line operational.

## Plot

As 1990 began, a hard Winter had set in and the railway's operations are cut down due to the weather. Bulldog is sent out on snow clearing duties after being fitted a pair of snowploughs while tank locomotives Sigrid and Giant are tasked on other departmental duties since Labiche, who would handle these duties, is away in France. This infuriates Zac since the bad weather results in both smaller trains and large delays to services, but is told by Clyde that it's just for safety reasons, despite the fact he's not operating that day (because of personal reasons). Zac is tasked to handle suburban trains on the Rozelle extension which has a reduced speed than usual.

## Characters

* Sigrid
* Giant
* Zac
* Clyde
* Manager of the railway
* Bulldog (does not speak)
* Hood (does not speak)
* Capulet (cameo)
* Titan (cameo)
* Labiche (mentioned)
* No. 78018 (mentioned)

## Locations

* Gladsville MPD
* Gladsville Dockyard
* Ryde station
* Milling station
* Wardle station
* Holden Bank Tunnel
* Holden Bank
* Rozelle station
* Bleath Gill (mentioned)

## Trivia

This episode marks the following:

* The first episode without Labiche not in the UK since The Series 1970s.
* The first episode where Bulldog has his Class 47 snowploughs fitted.
* The third episode where Zac has a mishap.

The episode is named after and inspired by the events in the 1955 British Transport Film 'Snowdrift at Bleath Gill' where a goods train, headed by BR Standard 2 2-6-0 No. 78018 got stuck in a snowdrift and how the engine was freed.

* The film itself is mentioned in the episode.
Gladsville

BR totem

**Gladsville** is the terminus of the Gladsville line. It also serves the nearby dockyard that is accessed by the junction.

## History

Gladsville was opened by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1898 both to serve a dockyard built by the railway and the nearly village. In 'The Midlander', the station has undergone so many rebuilds and modernizing e.g. platform 5 and the improved track layout in 1920. During WWII, the station was heavily damaged during an air-raid done by the Luftwaffe. The damage was to the junction connected that connected the station with the dockyard complex.

In 1949, the station was rebuilt (again) with a 6th platform due to an increase in passenger traffic on the line.

## Trivia

Gladsville station is scratchbuilt with Hornby platforms and card station canopies over the platforms from Melcafte kits.

The station BR totem was made digitally before being placed onto card.

In 2016, a poster for a tour by South Korean music (Kpop) girl group BlackPink could be seen.
Virginia

**Virginia** is an old American locomotive that works on the Moorland Steam Railway. She's the railway's oldest 4-6-0 and the only pure American locomotive on the railway.

## Bio

Virginia was built by Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works for an unknown railroad in the late-1880s but ended up on the Virginia Railroad in the 1890s. Between the 1890s and 1940s, she chose the name 'Virginia' as being a nod to her home railroad until sold to a shortline railroad, but was soon sold off for scrap as she was "beyond economical repair". She was saved by the Trinidad, Denver & Western Railroad (TD&W) but was to serve as spare parts to almost identical Rogers 4-6-0 No. 7 'Bradley', which she requested that. In 1975, after having most of her parts still in perfect condition on Bradley, the three visiting locomotives from the Moorland Steam Railway thought that she needed a new lease on life.

## Livery

Virginia is painted in Virginian Railroad black.

## Basis or real locomotive

Virginia appears to be based of the Sierra Railway No. 3. This locomotive was built by Rogers Locomotive Works in New Jersey as Prescott & Arizona Central Railway (P&AC) No. 3, officially named 'W. N. Kelly', but was sold to the Sierra Railway and kept its number, but lost its name. The original wooden cab was destroyed in a derailment when the locomotive rolled down an embankment in 1918 and re-entered service with a modern steel cab. In 1935, the locomotive was withdrawn but wasn’t scrapped and became a major movie star. The locomotive has starred in over 115 feature films and television shows, including ‘Back to the Future: Part III’ (1990) as Central Pacific Railroad No. 131, leading to the nickname “Movie Star Locomotive” by enthusiasts.

## Trivia

Virginia is named after the 10th state of the United States of America and the Virginian Railroad.

* Oddly, she's nicknamed "Mountain Momma" by many locomotives as a reference to John Denver's song 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', but this song is about the state West Virginia and not Virginia itself.

It's still unknown who Virginia was originally built for.

Virginia's model is a modified and repainted Mantua HO scale Rogers 4-6-0.

It's unknown when Virginia lost her original wooden cab but its rumoured she was involved in an incident that wrote her wooden cab off and was replaced with a steel cab.

Virginia's top speed (75mph/120km/h) is much higher than her basis, which has a top speed of 51mph (82km/h).

* She originally had her basis' top speed but was modified with smaller cylinders and given a boiler with much higher pressure that gives her higher top speed.
Kate

**Kate** is a BR-built Fairburn 4MT tank that works on the Moorland Steam Railway. She is one of the original five of the MSR.

## Bio

Kate was built at Derby by British Railways for suburban passenger traffic in 1950 to the design of Charles Edward Fairburn's 4MT class 2-6-4Ts. She was allocated to Northampsmith sheds for service on the Gladsville line, and was taught by Jinty into handling both passenger and freight traffic on the line. She also met Bradshaw, Hughes and Sharon, the line's roster in 1950. In 1951, she met the tank engine that doesn't even notice how to operate safely on a branch line.

## Livery

Until sometime in the 1970s, Kate is painted in BR Lined Black with Late Crests.

After her return from her ten-year-long trip around the UK in the 1970s, Kate returned in LMS pre-WWII lined black, which made everyone confused (since she was never built by the LMS).

## Basis or real locomotive

   Kate is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 277 Fairburn class 4 tanks built by both the LMS and British Railways from 1945 to 1951 until the introduction of the BR Standard 4 class 2-6-4T, which was based off the Fairburn tank. The last batches of Fairburns were built by Brighton Works from 1950 and 1951 for work on the Southern Region while the rest were built by Derby from 1945 to 1950. Withdrawals began in 1961 and the last retiring from service in 1967. Two, both of the Southern Region batch, have been preserved on the same heritage railway.

No. 42062 was built at Derby in 1950 and withdrawn from service in 1965. It was scrapped at John Cashmore Ltd later that same year.

## Trivia

Kate is named after and voiced by Kate Norgren, a friend of Shane Sowter. Her personality is also based on Kate Norgren.

Kate's LMS livery and number is false. This is because is she (like the real locomotive) was built by British Railways in 1950. The idea of her false livery was inspired by Clun Castle, Mayflower and 62005, which were built by BR but given pre-Nationalisation liveries in preservation or possibly the strict rule placed by enthusiasts in the early years of preservation with BR liveries being forbidden until the 1980s.

Kate's models are standard Bachmann Fairburn tanks, which her LMS one is renumbered and lined out.

Kate has a Cheshire accent. This is a reference to her being one the BR-batch of Fairburn tanks not built by Brighton Works but since she was built at Derby, she should have a Derbyshire accent.

Giant's design is based off Kate's.

Kate is the only Fairburn tank seen in the series that is not built at Brighton and the oldest member of the class surviving.

Kate's name means 'pure' and 'clear' and comes from Latin.
Catherine

**Catherine** is a Highland Railway (HR) heavy goods locomotive that is owned by the Moorland Steam Railway and is a major addition of the fleet, since of her place in history in locomotive development for the UK. She is one of Highland's older sisters and is very shy with other locomotives.

## Bio

Being the 2nd 4-6-0 built for the UK, Catherine was built by Sharp Steward & Company of Glasgow for goods traffic on the Highland Railway's network in Scotland. She made great friends with her only other classmate (until Katie's construction), David (HR No. 103, the 1st built for use in the UK). The arrival of Highland to the HR's fleet made the first two examples of the class to worry about the worst things will happen because of her. She was around when David bowed from service and set side for preservation in 1934, because of his historical status, and when Highland was withdrawn in 1935, the latter made her feel safe. Catherine was withdrawn and sold to Kingsford Limited for scrapping in 1936, but didn't know that because her historical status, as being the second 4-6-0 built for British use, she was left alone and underwent lengthy restorations.

Catherine's owners, Kingsford Limited changed its name to Foxfield Rail Limited in 1958 and her restoration was nearly complete, even with the livery she wore when withdrawn (LMS Black). Around 1978, the manager of the Moorland Steam Railway found out about Catherine's existence and bought her off Foxfield Rail Limited, since she was now in operational condition by then. On her delivery run to Northampsmith, she was intercepted by Highland and was "tortured", even having her number stolen. Highland's death only five months later lead to her discovery and broke down into tears. Hood brought her to the MSR, since it was, has he says, a honour to pull in one of the very first locomotives in the UK of his Whyte notation.

## Personality

Catherine is a kind-hearted engine, but is very shy and easily breaks into nervous break-downs following the events when Highland "tortured" her.

## Livery

Highland is painted in LMS Black with yellow lettering and numbering.

## Basis or real locomotive

   Catherine is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 15 4-6-0s built for the Highland Railway (HR) and became the first 4-6-0s built for the UK. They were built by Sharp Steward & Company in 1894 and were designed for goods work by David Jones, hence their nickname. They were passed into LMS hands in 1923 and were withdrawn from 1929 to 1940, with only one being preserved.

No. 104 was built in 1894 and is the second 4-6-0 built in the UK. It's exact withdrawal date is largely unknown.

## Trivia

Catherine is built from a DJH Models kit painted into LMS Black livery.

* Highland is built from the same kit.

Catherine was inspired by Repulse from the Dark Railways Series by Dark DJ Productions.

* Like Repulse, Catherine shares the same theme, the royalty-free track 'Had She Stayed' by Puddle of Infinity.
* Unlike Repulse, Catherine isn't sent away.

Catherine is mostly least focused character by Shane Sowter in story writting.
Cam

**Cam** is a two-car "Second Generation" diesel multiple unit (DMU) that works on the Moorland Steam Railway. He works mainly during the busy commuter periods, just to keep the suburban, steam-hauled services easier to handle during peak periods of the day.

## Bio

Cam was built at York Carriage Works in 1985 to replace an obsolete fleet of DMUs from the late-steam era of BR, known commonly as either "Heritage" or "First Generation" DMUs.

## Livery

Cam is painted in British Rail's Original Provincial livery with full yellow ends.
Hornby

Hornby logo (1999-present)

**Hornby** (formerly **Hornby Railways**, **Tri-ang Hornby**, **Hornby Duplo** and **Hornby Clockwork Trains**) is a model train company based at Margate, Kent, England. It was named after its founder, Frank Hornby, in 1920. and remains one of the largest model train manufacturers in the UK, along with Bachmann.

## Characters that use Hornby models

Note: Some characters use parts from Hornby models and are listed.

* Bradshaw
* King James I
* Royal Scot
* Maxwell
* Pauly
* Armstrong (GWR 1400 chassis)

* Dewer
* Stovold
* Dave
* Stan
* The Sherwood Forester
* Thomas
* Henry
* Bowden Hall
* Knight of St Patrick
* Collette
* Aberporth Grange
* Cardiff
* Dartington Hall
* Llanvair Grange
* Pendennis Castle
* Dartmouth Castle
* Hampden
* Agnes
* Buckleybury Grange/"Buck"
* Raven
* Multiple diesels
* Martello
* Cowes
* Camelot
* Zac
* Eric Tracy
* Westminster
* Norton
* Anderson
* Gordon (NWR)
* Leicester City
* Guinevere
* Percy (LYR Pug chassis)
* Dreadnought
* Sir John Hawkins
* Shrewsbury
* Ivanhoe (rebuilt from a Hornby Saint)
* County of Flint
* Lode Star
* Lord of the Isles
* Maude
* Princess Elizabeth "Lizzie"
* Brighton/Newport
* Earl of Mount Edgcombe
* Swiss Guard
* Callum
* Unnamed 2800
* Unnamed 4200
* Unnamed LMS 2P
* Unnamed Black Five
* Unnamed Southern S15s
* Unnamed C14
* Worthington
* NWR No. 8 (inside cylinder 0-4-0 chassis)
* TK&E No. 12 (outside cylinder 0-4-0 chassis)

## Trivia

Some of the models come of the cheap Railroad range, but have been detailed up to make sure they didn't look out of place against the more detailed models also seen.

Some characters feature parts from Hornby models that have been turned into scrap dressings or used as spare parts/ parts donors for other models in need or repairs.

* The exception is Ivanhoe, how was rebuilt from an old Hornby Saint class 4-6-0 into a 4-4-2 along with conversion from tender drive to loco drive.
Martin Kitson

Barclay Kitson (youngest son and successor)

**Martin Kitson wa**s the manager of the Moorland Steam Railway from 1962 to 1975. He is regarded as the "railway's founding father" after he helped save the line from closure in 1962.

## Bio

Martin Kitson was born in 1941 at his family's cottage at Northrop. He grew up around the nearby railway line and was 7 when British Railways was formed in 1948. He began do trainspotting at the age of 8 and attended school at Northampsmith, making the rail service from Gladsville to Northampsmith a part of his daily school life. In 1962, at the age of 21, he was one of the locals that helped saved the line from closure by BR, which lead to the creation of the Moorland Steam Railway that year.

Martin became the manager of the newly-founded heritage railway with Westminster, King James I, Will and Stovold being purchased by him in 1963. This resulted in his mission to rescue locomotives across the UK from being scrapped.

Sadly, in 1993, Martin Kitson passed away from a heart attack while waiting for a train at Ryde station heading for Rozelle. He was 52 years old with his funeral held at Gladsville Church and ending at Northrop via funeral train.

## Appearances

### The Series 1960s

* Veteran Rescue from Swindon

## Locomotives purchased during the Martin Kitson era

### 1963

* Westminster
* King James I
* Will
* Stovold

### 1964

* Andy
* Murphy

### 1965

* Hood
* Australia
* Lizzie
* Patrick

### 1967

* Audie
* Argus (gifted from the Strategic Steam Reserve)
Heljan

Heljan logo

**Heljan** is a model railway company stationed in Denmark, but specialises in many British models in OO, O and OO9. The company spends most of its time upgrading and adding to its O gauge range of models, but does release new OO gauge locomotives.

## History

Heljan was founded in 1957 by Niels Christian Nannestad as a toy train company for Danish children.

## Characters using Heljan models

* Capulet
* Multiple diesels
* Mitch
* Reo
* Rao
SS Vienna

**SS Vienna** was a large passenger liner once on display at Gladsville Dockyard. She is more commonly known as an **"old steam cruise ship"** by Audie because of her 1910s shape and her white livery.

## History

SS Vienna's history is largely unknown (even from her other appearances) but because of her design, appears to have been launched around the same year as RMS Titanic (launched in 1911) and entered service in 1912 (same as Titanic). Because her funnels are painted white with gold around them, her shipping company/owner is not known. In the 1980s, she was taken to Gladsville Dockyard as a short term display item.

Audie, which did see liners and cruise ships in days shunting Southampton, had never seen a vessel of her design and age, which earned her the nickname "the old steam cruise ship" by Audie. He believed that Vienna was a cruise ship, since her hull is painted white, and was now well past her prime. Hughes remembered her well and told Audie how she was the reason Gladsville had to have its dockyard enlarged, to accommodate ships of her size. SS Vienna also was given a new set of paintwork and renamed **'Roxstar'** before she left for a new service career, with a new name. Audie, having sailor superstitions, believed something bad will happen to the renamed ship since according to sailor superstition, renaming a vessel leads to it having a bad luck streak.

## Basis

   SS Vienna doesn't have an exact basis, but she has a strong resemblance to the following famous 1910s British ocean liners:

* RMS Lusitania and Mauretania (Mauretania-class, Cunard Line)
* RMS Olympic, Titanic and Britannic (Olympic-class, White Star Line)
* RMS Aquitania (one-off design, Cunard Line)

Some fans of both 'TUGS' and 'Thomas' argue she's also based off the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the world's first four-funnel liner (launched in 1897).

## Livery

SS Vienna first painted with a white hull + superstructure, and four white and gold funnels. When she re-entered service as SS Roxstar, she was given a black hull with white superstructure and black and blue funnels.

## Trivia

   SS Vienna is the name of a liner of the same design in the 1989 children's show 'TUGS'. The model was reused for 'Thomas & Friends' after 'TUGS' was cancelled and the ship's model was later renamed 'SS Roxstar' in later seasons of T&F.

SS Vienna's appearances and actions around her is writer Shane Sowter's way of explaining that both SS Vienna and SS Roxstar are really the same ship, but this's a fan theory.

   Oddly, there was a real passenger vessel named 'SS Vienna'. The only difference is that this vessel was a two-funnel railway-owned 1890s ship, instead of a four-funnel 1910s ocean liner.

SS Vienna's model is scratchbuilt from balsa wood. Due to the size of her model, this make Vienna the largest model made for the series.

SS Vienna appearance in 'The Midlander' is a tribute to Shane Sowter's original interest in 1910s ocean liners, namely RMS Titanic.
Killarney

**Killarney** is a GWR 3700 "City" class 4-4-0 operated on the Moorland Steam Railway. He's actually a working replica of the original locomotive by Swindon built in 1989, building using plates from the original locomotive (scrapped at Swindon in 1928).

## Bio

There is many arguments over Killarney's past since he's a replica of the original locomotive. It's unknown how he has memories of the original 'Killarney' (formerly named 'Ophir' until 1907). The replica was built between 1982 and 1989, when it entered traffic on the MSR. He was normally seen with GWR-liveried coaches from the Western Region of British Railways. Things didn't go well when the class's sole survivor (No. 3440 'City of Truro') found out about the replica of his classmate. City of Truro was shocked to find that he knew him long before, strengthening the case he's a reincarnation of the original locomotive, whose identity he bears.

## Livery

Killarney is painted in the Great Western green with black outside frames and cracks. Before, his original predecessor would have worn the old GWR Monogram livery with Indian Red outside frames + cranks and no number on the front buffer beam. The original even wore a lined version of his current livery.

## Basis or real locomotive

   Killarney is based off the real locomotive. It was built 1902 originally as an Atbara class built later converted into a City class before his rename in 1907. It was renumbered in 1912 as '3708' under the new GWR numbering system. The locomotive was withdrawn and scrapped at Swindon in 1928.

No. 3440/ 3717 'City of Truro' is a member of this class and is a member of the National Collection.

## Trivia

Killarney's memory of being scrapped by the GWR in 1928 is seen as a nightmare. This was the reason why he wakes up in horror.

   Killarney's operating models are standard Bachmann models. The model showing him under construction is a Dapol (ex-Kitmaster and Airfix) kit of classmate 'City of Truro', but partly assembled and fully painted.

The idea behind Killarney was inspired by real life reincarnation events, especially with children.

Killarney is named after a holiday destination served by the GWR.

Killarney is the only character to have a running gag since his introduction, which is every time he passes over point work with bogie stock, the points changes and the vehicle performs "multi-track drifting".

* This could be a reference to the Japanese anime and manga series 'Initial D'.

The original Killarney is one of the main characters and is the narrator in The Great Way Round.

Killarney uses sounds recorded from archive footage taken of City of Truro during its recent boiler tickets of 1985-1995 and 2003-2013.

* City of Truro himself also uses the same sound files.
* His whistles are just the same used on other GWR locomotives.
Gladsville MPD

**Gladsville MPD** is a locomotive depot sited in the old dockyard at Gladsville, which was built as a replacement of the old Northampsmith MPD, which was demolished in 1983. Gladsville MPD was also built as a replica of Northampsmith MPD before World War Two.

## History

Gladsville MPD was built between 1984 and 1989 as a full replacement of Northampsmith MPD on the mainline, since BR was complaining about the MPD and the railway's historic locomotives "interfering with standard services from the station," plus problems with maintaining the shed. Using photographs of Northampsmith before it was destroyed in 1942, architects set to work designing a replica MPD based at Gladsville Dockyard to Northampsmith's original design. The shed was consisted by the construction of Dentin (Main) DPD at Dentin station, on the other end of the railway.

The first shed was completed in 1985, followed by the second and identical shed a year later, leading to the formal opening by HRH the Prince of Wales. The first locomotives that were welcomed were the original five of the railway (Jenny, Jinty, Capulet, Kate and Hughes), which three were still awaiting overhauls and one was about to be retired from service.

## Trivia

Gladville MPD was built as a replacement for Northampsmith MPD, demolished in 1983.

* Gladsville MPD reuses Northampsmith MPD's shedcode '6L'.

Gladsville MPD was built from a few Melcafte card kits in brick instead of stone.
Coal

**Coal** is a type of fossil fuel that is used by steam locomotives. All (but one) of the steam locomotives used on the mainline and the Moorland Steam Railway are coal-fired, since Britain is a large coal-fired locomotive nation.

## History

Coal was first used on a large scale during the early Industrial Revolution, which was mined out of Yorkshire (outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne). It has always been said that coal, along with steam, powered the Industrial Revolution and by the mid-Victorian era, all steam locomotives were burning coal as fuel, since coal cheap in those days. By the 1900s, thousands of coal trains were run across the country in order to keep the country moving its railways and ocean-going vessels. By the 1920s, coal prices were spiking and dropping and by the time of the Great Depression, the cost for coal was only getting worse. In the USA, an alternative fuel was developed by this fuel failed badly in the UK thanks to it being too expensive. In the 1940s, coal was still the preferred fuel because it was a plentiful supply and steam was allowed to continue development, since electrification of the whole network and diesel fuel was too expensive. By the 1960s, coal usage dropped as electric heaters were being used in homes and steam locomotives were being withdrawn *en masse*, and led to many towns on the coal fields to lose their railway services (and the lines).

## Coal on the Moorland Steam Railway

Coal is an important investment that the Moorland Steam Railway has since all the steam locomotives on the route (apart for one) burn coal for fuel. The duty of taking coal from mainline trains was first done by Capulet (being no stranger to heavy coal traffic, the job he was built for).

Until the 1980s, the MSR's main coal supply came from County Durham or Wales but this supply has since shrunk when the collieries that supplied the railway were closed by the National Coal Board (NCB) in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the late-1980s, all of the MSR's coal has come from Sodor.
7-plank open wagons

The **7-plank open wagons** are a type of mineral wagon used on Britain's railways until replaced by steel hoppers in the 1980s. They are the most famous form of British mineral wagon and along with other forms of railway freight stock, they are known to cause trouble during their service years.

## History

The 7-plank open wagon is one of the most numerous wagons seen on the British railway network, built for private companies and mainline railways. The standard design was issued by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) with the following:

* 2 axles/4 wheels
* 9 feet (2.74 m) wheel base
* 16 feet 6 inches (5.03 m) total length over headstocks
* 2 side doors and 1 end door
* Designed for and equipped with the welded hangers for either vacuum or air brakes
* But only equipped with the standard Moreton "V" hanger independent hand-brakes

With these rules, the 7-plank open wagon had little differences in design, even depending on the operator (private or mainline). 7-planks, along with other forms of railway wagon associated with dry cargo transport (vans and other open wagons), the locomotives of every railway have known they to always be trouble, since of their string of accidents which they cause. Causes for their behaviour have been believed to have come from when the shunters "bump" them way too hard. Their troublesome attitude towards locomotives of any size gave them the nickname "troublesome trucks" by locomotives across Great Britain.

In the 1960s, a new generation of steel-bodied mineral wagons was introduced to replace all plank wagons on mineral duties on the mainline. By the 1980s, the last 7-plank open wagons were retired by the National Coal Board (NCB) a decade after they were retired by British Rail. Over 10,000 built, with many preserved and more scrapped in the '70s and '80s.

## Basis

   The 7-plank open wagons are based on the real vehicles. These were common sites on the mainlines of Great Britain until fully replaced by air-brake fitted stock made of steel in the 1980s by British Rail. There are many still seen today on all of the UK's heritage railways, all in various liveries that include both mainline and private owner. Many of these wagons were owned by private companies before the Nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948, which lead to some interesting liveries.

## Trivia

   The 7-plank open wagons which have faces (normally seen on the NWR) are based on the Season 1 truck faces from Thomas & Friends in 1984. This was so Shane didn't need to bother with more face masks.

* The sometimes troublesome attitude during service years is based on the Troublesome Trucks from the same show, which was also copied in other shows created by other Thomas fans.

All 7-plank open wagons are done via models by Hornby, Bachmann, Dapol and Oxford Rail. Kits by Parkside Dundas with balsa wood bodies represent wagons that are destroyed in the result of a derailment or being scrapped.

The MSR owns at least 16 of these wagons, which only ten have been restored.
Fletcher

**Fletcher** is a copy of Talyllyn of the Talyllyn Railway in Wales built in 1979. She is one of nine locomotives that operate on the Dentin Moor Narrow Gauge Railway (DMNGR) and the forth locomotive built by the railway. She has a slightly younger brother named 'Jennings'.

## Bio

Fletcher was built at Dentin for the Dentin Moor Narrow Gauge Railway (DMNGR) in 1979 and became the first locomotive built by the DMNGR in the partnership era with the Moorland Steam Railway (MSR). The company built her using the engineering drawings of Talyllyn from the Talyllyn Railway (with permission and licence), but with enlarged cylinders to cope with "heavy" loads along the route. She first saw service during the hard Winter months of that year, where icy rails caused issues for the railway's existing fleet of locomotives, even Mitch, the most powerful locomotive on the railway. Seeing her capable of operating the route's heaviest trains in tough conditions, Fletcher was placed in the railway's passenger roster with Coventry and Mitch.

As a passenger locomotive, Fletcher found herself being mistaken for a locomotive in Wales because of her design (she being a copy of Talyllyn, hence the mistaken identity), until she explained she was built using that locomotive's plans, along with DMNGR No. 6, aka 'Jennings'.

## Livery

Fletcher is painted in DMNGR Crimson Lake.

## Basis or real locomotive

Fletcher is based on the Talyllyn, the only Fletcher Jennings C class to be built under the 2'8" gauge. It was built in 1864 and was the first locomotive to operate on a British narrow gauge railway whose first motive power was steam, not horses. Talyllyn was rebuilt from a 0-4-0ST to a 0-4-2ST with a covered cab, giving its common appearance. It was rebuilt again in the 1950s following preservation and is still operating on the Talyllyn Railway with another Fletcher Jennings and original Talyllyn locomotive, No. 2 'Dolgoch'.

## Trivia

Fletcher is made from a Bachmann (USA) Skarloey HOe/OO9 gauge model that has been repainted, given a 3D-printed smokebox door (for changeable faces) and detailed up to resemble the real Talyllyn.

Despite having a male name, Fletcher is a female. This comes from a girl Shane Sowter knows at high school.

* Fletcher is in fact not named after her, but after Fletcher Jennings and Co. Jennings shares the same namesake.

Fletcher is fitted with a LMS 3F "Jinty" whistle, which is different to the one fitted to the real Talyllyn.

* It can be confirmed to be Jinty's original whistle, removed and replaced in 1974.

Unlike her basis, Fletcher is not fitted with buffers.
Cook

**Cook** is a large Australian tank locomotive that is operated by the Moorland Steam Railway. He has to under modifications are his arrival, including regauging.

## Bio

Cook was built by James Martin & Co. in 1915 as one of the last members of the F class tank engine for South Australian Railways (SAR). In the 1940s, following WWII and removal of buffers, Cook and some of his class were converted to oil firing but were expected to withdrawal because of diesels. Cook was withdrawn in 1968 from service after 53 years of service and was placed into storage.

After around ten years being stored at Galwer, Cook was bought by the Moorland Steam Railway but had to be modified to operate in the UK because of gauge differences, missing buffers and different couplings. He was delivered to Gladsville in 1981 as he was modified to operate on the British line but didn't make a great first impression in front of the MSR's manager and fellow ex-Australian locomotive Clyde. After realising that running without buffers for a long time meant that he didn't remember how to use them and had to be taught. Cook was taught fellow suburban tank Kate in how to improve his operations with buffers.

## Basis or real locomotive

Cook is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 43 built by Islington Railway Workshops, Perry Engineering and James Martin & Co. from 1902 to 1922 for suburban duties. They were built to replace the older P class 2-4-0Ts from 1884, which was based of an Isle of Wight design, as they were struggling with the passenger workload. Nothing major occurred during their service years and they were replaced by the newer "Redhen" DMUs from 1955 withdrawals occurring from 1955 to 1969. Three have been preserved.

No. F245 was built by James Martin & Co. in 1915 and was withdrawn from service in 1959. It is now on static display at Galwer station.

## Trivia

Surprisingly, the real SAR No. F245 has been preserved, which it is plinthed outside Galwer station in South Australia.

* Strangely, this engine doesn't have oil firing features as shown in the series.
* Until late-2020, Shane Sowter had thought the real No. F245 was scrapped, resulting in the engine being seen in the series.

Cook's model is a HO scale Orient Express Reproductions model with added buffers and modified couplings.

Cook is named after either Captain James Cook, Prime Minister Joseph Cook or a small hamlet located in the Nullabor Plain in South Australia.

Cook is the second 4-6-2T owned by the MSR. The first was Diarmad.

Like Clyde during Christmas time, Cook sings the Australian versions of the classic Christmas carols.

Cook's motto is "What the hell, mate?"

Some of Cook's jokes and lines are taken straight out of "Agro's Cartoon Connection", an early-1990s Australian "children's" show hosted by Agro (an Australian slang word for "aggravate") and Ann-Maree.

* Agro is known in this show for his rather strong jokes towards Ann-Maree and a few other guests on the show.
Newcastle

**Newcastle** is a small well tank built by the Dentin Moor Narrow Gauge Railway (DMNGR) in the mid-1950s. He was built as a copy of the Fletcher Jennings Bb class, which Talyllyn locomotive Dolgoch is the only original locomotive of the class. He has two brothers, Birmingham (built 1956) and Coventry (built 1957).

## Bio

Newcastle was built in 1956 for the DMNGR as one of three copies of the Talyllyn Railway's Dolgoch.

## Livery

Newcastle is painted in DMNGR Crimson Lake.

## Basis or real locomotive

Newcastle is based of the Talyllyn Railway's No. 2, better known as 'Dolgoch'. It was built in 1866 and was the 2nd locomotive built for the railway (No. 1 'Talyllyn' arriving that same decade, but came first) and was named 'Pretoria' between 1900 and 1914. It was also the first locomotive to work on a railway preserved by volunteers (Talyllyn was already out of action) and handled the first season's traffic alone. It was rebuilt between 1954 and 1963 (along with Talyllyn) and is still a major locomotive on the Talyllyn Railway, since it has been its home since the day it was built.

## Trivia

Newcastle's model is built from a Bachmann USA HOe/OO9 gauge model of Rheneas.
The Great Western Always Storms Through

**The Great Western Always Storms Through**, which is referred to in production as **"The GWR Always Storms Through"** and originally going to be titled **"Andy Storms Through"**, is the seventh episode of the mini series 1980s. When a large storm threatens to cut off Dentin station during the bad weather, Andy becomes the railway's lone hope.

## Plot

It was 1985 and the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were underway across the country but in the Cheshire area, a heavy storm is threatening to close the section between Burshton North and Dentin Moor stations, cutting off Dentin from the rest of the railway. The manager of the Moorland Steam Railway has come to find volunteers to try and keep the services to Dentin running, with 1930s Great Western veteran Andy and BR Standard 2 Zac putting themselves up for the work.

Coupled tender-to-tender for run-arounds at both ends, they set off with a train formed of suburban stock brought to the railway nearly ten years before for Dentin, albeit delayed by Andy getting his weather sheet set up.

## Characters

* Andy
* Murphy
* Manager of the railway
* Zac

## Trivia

This episode marks the following:

* The first episode to use 'Rule, Britannia' to be used in the intro.

* The first appearance of the BR Mk1 suburbans since their first appearance in 'Redundant Commuters'.
* The first heavy usage of water of water outside of Gladsville Dockyard.
* The last episode where Dentin Main is referred to as 'Dentin'.
* The last appearance of Northrop station in BR colours.

This episode's official title has the longest title of any of the episodes in the franchise.

The events of the episode are partly inspired by a real event when a train got stranded in flood waters near Hunstanton, Norfolk, and the crew got the train back to Hunstanton station by using the locomotive's floor boards.

* The same event inspired 'Percy's Promise' in the The Railway Series book 'Percy the Small Engine'.
BR Mk3 (mainline air brake stock)

**British Rail (BR) Mk3 coaches** are a series of coaches that could be operated at 125mph (201km/h), normally accosiated with BR's InterCity High Speed Trains (HSTs). The Moorland Steam Railway **owns a fleet** **of only six coaches** of the Mk3 design for usage with air brake-fitted locomotives (Labiche and Clyde).

## History

The Mk3 coaching stock was introduced in 1972 to compete with declining passenger numbers on the railway from airlines and the private car since the 1960s. It was based on the body of the Mk2 but intended for higher top speeds. The new coach design was originally intended to be locomotive-hauled coaches, but the first ten were built for the Prototype HST, which sealed their place as the trailer cars for the new BR InterCity trains that the railways needed.

## MSR Mk3s

In 1985, the Moorland Steam Railway was given some Mk3as by BR when the Mk2as used by the MSR were needed to be repaired and they were showing too much signs of age. BR thought that selling or gifting some Mk3as would solve problems and allow more money for the smaller train operating company with mainline tours.
Bruja

Las brujas son mujeres con diversos poderes malignos y suelen

   representarse de muchas maneras. Mayormente son descritas como mujeres viejas y feas, que suelen llevar un sombrero muy grande, vestir prendas oscuras y casi siempre se las ve volar sobre una escoba. Aunque en algunas ocasiones se las describe como mujeres jóvenes y hermosas.

Las brujas también pueden adoptar formas animales, a menudo de gatos o liebres. Si cuando están convertidas en liebre sufren una herida, esta se mantendrá una vez que recuperen la apariencia humana.

## Los poderes de las brujas

Las brujas no suelen nacer con poderes mágicos, sino que deben adquirirlos, bien pidiéndoselos al demonio en persona. Sin embargo, a menudo disponen de habilidades innatas: el séptimo hijo de un séptimo hijo o la séptima hija de una séptima hija poseerá un talento instintivo para la hechicería.

Está bastante generalizada la idea de que las brujas trabajan al servicio del demonio, aunque para algunos se trata de una equivocación de la antigua Iglesia cristiana, que, del siglo IV al XVIII, fue responsable de torturar y quemar en vida a todo sospechoso de brujería.

## Las marcas de la bruja

Se decía que las brujas que obedecían al demonio tenían marcas en el cuerpo, como lacras de su pacto con el Maligno. Un lunar, una peca, una cicatriz o una mancha de nacimiento podían interpretarse como marcas de bruja. La mujer acusada de brujería era examinada y considerada culpable si presentaba cualquier marca en el cuerpo.
Unicornio

El unicornio es un ser fantástico, fisicamente parecido a un

   caballo común y corriente, con la diferencia de que los unicornios tienen un cuerno sobre su cabeza y los caballos no. Además de que mayormente los unicornios solamente suelen ser blancos.

Muchas historias y leyendas suelen tener como protagonista al famoso unicornio. Hace mucho tiempo el unicornio significaba 'poder' se decia que tenia tanto poder, que podria derrotar en una batalla, hasta a un rinoceronte. También significaba 'virginidad' y por eso los cazadores de unicornios solian usar a una joven virgen, para atraer a los unicornios y amansarlos. Luego resultaba sencillo asesinar al unicornio, ya que la joven facilitaba su peligrosa cacería.
Juliette Kaplan

**Marlene Juliette Kaplan**, known as **Juliette Kaplan** (2 October 1939 – 10 October 2019) was a British actress most famous for playing the role of battle-axe Pearl Sibshaw in the BBC comedy *Last of the Summer Wine*, from 1985 to 2010.

## Early life

Born in Bournemouth to Jewish parents who split up when she was little, Kaplan was taken to her father's native South Africa when she was six months old. She went to a Jewish government school in Johannesburg then to a convent in Pretoria before spending a year in New York when she was 11.

Because of Kaplan's Brooklyn accent mixed with a strong South African accent, her mother sent her to drama school in Bournemouth to polish up her voice, paying her way by working as a chambermaid, sales girl and telephone operator. There, in 1957, she appeared in her first stage role, *Waters of the Moon* in Margate. Always the friendly sort, Kaplan soon made friends with Margate's Jewish community, where all the mothers with unmarried sons asked her to come for dinner - one of which succeeded. His name was Harold Hoser, and the two married soon after.

## Career

After numerous stage roles, 1958 brought Kaplan her first feature film role, as Salome in *A Voice Crying in the Wilderness,* the story of John the Baptist told by an amateur cast in a Dorset village. Kaplan's husband owned a chain of gift shops along the south coast of England, which Kaplan had to run after his untimely death in 1981 aged 54. Kaplan struggled to work on stage and manage the shops, where she would work in one of the shops during the day and perform on stage on the night. This eventually became too much for her so she sold the shops.

In 1985, Kaplan appeared as new character Pearl Sibshaw in a stage play named *Last of the Summer Wine,* opposite her husband Howard (Robert Fyfe) and is girlfriend Marina (Jean Fergusson). The three new characters were so popular with audiences that writer Roy Clarke wrote them into the TV series. Kaplan's first series of *Last of the Summer Wine* would air later the same year.

Due to being so popular and recognisable as Pearl on television, other screen appearances came about including *London's Burning*, *Brookside*, *EastEnders* and *Doctors*. After *Last of the Summer Wine* ended in 2010, Kaplan appeared on stage as Pearl in her own spin off from the show showing what happened to Pearl when she was younger and how she met Howard. In 2014, Kaplan appeared in the Boots Christmas Advert. In 2015, Kaplan joined the cast of *Coronation Street* as Agnes Tinker for eight episodes.

### Personal life and death

In July 2019, Kaplan's agent announced on Twitter that she was 'gravely ill' and in a hospice. She died on 10 October 2019, just days after her 80th birthday, of which her agent shared a picture of her on her final birthday.

Kaplan had 3 children and resided in Canterbury, Kent.

## Filmography

### Stage roles

 1977-1979
 1982
 1985
 2006
 2012
Clive Swift

**Clive Walter Swift** (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. He is best known for his role as Richard Bucket in the British television series *Keeping Up Appearances*, but has played many other notable film and television roles, including that of Roy in the British television series *The Old Guys*.
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