Gordon

Fat Face

Galloping Sausage

Little Brother

The Shooting Star

Falling Star

Big Lad

Big G

Solario (Brother)

Victor Wild (Brother)

Flying Fox (Brother)

Royal Lancer (Brother)

Gay Crusader (Brother)

Hermit (Brother)

Robert the Devil (Brother)

Enterprise (Brother)

St Simon (Brother)

Melton (Brother)

Lemberg (Brother)

Diamond Jubilee (Sister)

Donovan (Brother)

Doncaster (Brother)

Galtee More (Sister)

Persimmon (Brother)

Blink Bonny (Sister)

Prince Palatine (Brother)

Sansovino (Brother)

Manna (Sister)

Wolwinder (Brother)

Cenentary (Brother)

Ormonde (Brother)

Blair Athol (Sister)

Tracery (Sister)

The Tetrarch (Brother)

Pretty Polly (Sister)

Minoru (Brother)

Isinglass (Brother)

William Whitelaw (Brother)

Knight of Thistle (Brother)

Merry Hampton (Sister)

Ladas (Sister)

Sir Visto (Brother)

Sceptre (Brother)

Gladiateur (Brother)

Tranquil (Sister)

Sunstar (Sister)

St. Gatien (Brother)

Harvester (Brother)

St. Frusquin (Brother)

Galopin (Sister)

The White Knight (Brother)

Night Hawk (Brother)

Bayardo (Brother)

Dick Turpin (Brother)

Shotover (Brother)

Neil Gow (Brother)

Sir Hugo (Brother)

Felstead (Brother)

Grand Parade (Sister)

Captain Cuttle (Brother)

Fairway (Brother)

Coronach (Brother)

Colorado (Brother)

Flamingo (Brother)

Papyrus (Brother)

Humorist (Brother)

Spion Kop (Brother)

Trigo (Sister)

Manna (Sister)

Gainsborough (Brother)

Blenheim (Brother)

Book Law (Brother

Call Boy (Brother)

Spearmint (Brother)

Cicero (Brother)

Windsor Lad (Brother)

Colombo (Brother)

Hyperion (Sister)

Firdaussi (Sister)

Sandwich (Brother)

Cameronian (Brother)

Salmon Trout (brother)

Singapore (Brother)

Brown Jack (Brother)

Spencer (Cousin)

Green Arrow (Cousin)

Mallard (Cousin)

Sir Nigel Gresley (Cousin)

Bittern (Cousin)

Union of South Africa (Cousin)

Dominion of Canada (Cousin)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Cousin)

Silver Link (Cousin)

Gadwall (Cousin)

### Affiliation

Great Northern Railway (ordered)London and North Eastern Railway (released into traffic, March 17th, 1923-December 31st, 1947)

British Railways (January 1st, 1948-December 7th, 1964)

### Class

London and North Eastern Railway A1/A3 4-6-2

### Number

GNR 1473, 4473, 503 (proposed, never applied), 104, BR 60104

### Railway

London North Eastern Railway (Formerly)British Railways (Formerly

**Gordon** is a blue asshole who is more or less likely to embezzle funds from British Railways.

## Biography

Gordon was built on March 17th, 1923 and was initially numbered 1473 (as the 10 A1s ordered after Great Northern and Sir Frederick Banbury were numbered with their GNR numbers despite being delivered under the LNER after 1923). When he was first put into service, he was named "Solario" and allocated to Doncaster shed where he first met his older brother Flying Scotsman and Henry (who was a failed member of the original batch ordered in 1921) and tried to help with his "teething troubles", but ultimately failed. During 1924, he was renumbered to 4473, he also had an incident where his valve gear failed and had to be towed away to Doncaster Works, the engines never let him live it down. By this point, nothing really "interesting" happened in his life apart from pulling trains like "The Flying Scotsman", being fitted with several variants of Diagram 94 and 94A boilers, and being allocated between Copley Hill and Doncaster from September 25th, 1937 - January 3rd, 1938, after that he'd be allocated to Gorton shed which is the last place he'd be before the war broke out.

On October 11th, 1941, he rolled out of Doncaster Works after being completely converted into an A3, he would be painted in the LNER's "wartime black" livery on February 5th, 1943. Under these conditions, Gordon wasn't maintained properly and mostly regulated to freight services which he hated, but knew were essential for the country. He'd also be allocated to Kings Cross sheds where he'd become more and more convinced that Kings Cross was the only station in London (despite there being around ten official terminuses in the country but we'll discuss that at a later time), he'd remain there until 1950. When the war was over and the engines put back into regular service, the LNER decided to renumbered their engines under something called 5he "1946 renumbering scheme" in which all stock that was serviceable was renumbered between 1-10000 (the LNER didn't actually have 10000 engines, that was just the numbering range). Initially, the A3s were numbered between 501-578 (with the exception of No. 500 Great Northern who was rebuilt, the number 500 would later be given to the A2/3 "Edward Thompson"). Among these numbers, Gordon's proposed number was No. 503, but this was changed to 104 later that year when the revised numbers came in. The LNER also announced that all of their engines would be painted green (with the exception of some), and on January 25th,1947, he was outshopped sporting the LNER's signature "Apple Green" livery once again, although the only change was his number which had been changed to 104 as stated above which he loved and kept through the end of the LNER and nationalization.

Upon nationalization, he was allocated to 2A Tidmouth where he met Henry once again, only this time he was a 5MT but was still smaller and weaker than the A3. Gordon was overjoyed to see his old friend/brother/cousin/whatevertfheis once again despite forgetting about the man nearly a decade ago, he would also meet a K Class No. 32353 named "James Holden" after the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GER. The trio worked well together and even went on strike due to reasons that will not be explained. On January 13th, 1950, he was repainted into British Railways' "Express Passenger Blue" livery, a livery which he kept until the very end. And speaking of the end, Gordon entered Doncaster Works on November 19th, 1959 for a general repair, but wound up going on the scrapline instead. Surprisingly enough, his number wasn't pulled from the roster and condemned until almost a month later. And with Gordon gone, a new pacific was allocated to Tidmouth to take his place.

## Personality

Gordon's important position as the engine who pulls the Express has made him proud, pompous, arrogant, prideful and self-important, with a good reason too; he is the fastest engine on Sodor. He is extremely proud of this and is inclined to boast. But despite his pompousness, he is goodhearted, always willing to forgive and uses his superior strength to help smaller engines out of trouble. Though he is also vengeful and will plot retribution if he feels he has been sufficiently slighted, as mentione d before he is happy to forgive especially after he has either had his retribution or the individual has received some other comeuppance. He also has a great hatred of goods trains, though not to the extent that James does.

Gordon’s philosophy "tender engines don't shunt" meant that he looked down on tank engines and tender engines who do shunt, but after being locked in the shed with Henry and James after going on strike and before the time he had run out of water, he seemed to have abandoned this philosophy. However, because of his rank in the social order of the North Western Railway, Gordon expects to get the important passenger jobs and either sulk when he does not and/or gets jealous of engines who do.

Sometimes, Gordon acts mean and insulting, particularly towards Edward, but following misadventures where Edward had to help him, Gordon had to acknowledge that despite being old, Edward is still a very useful engine. However, Gordon still sometimes doubts Edward is still reliable, such as the time he did not believe Edward could win a race against Spencer as he is only a "back engine" and a "waste of steam". He soon stopped belittling Edward for good after being tricked by Thomas; he learned his lesson and apologised to Edward, saying that he promised not to call him old or unreliable anymore.

Despite the way he treats Edward sometimes, deep down, Gordon cares a great deal about Edward and the other engines on the railway. This was especially shown when he was very upset after he learned that Edward and Henry moved out of Tidmouth Sheds to sleep elsewhere for their own reasons, thus indicating how much he missed them. He appears to have a hard time accepting change, but with help from his friends, he is able to pull through it.

Sometimes, Gordon shows a kinder side and gives the engines some advice, usually after he has had some mishap as a result of his foolhardiness. Some of his advice is not exactly helpful or honest, though, as James, Percy and Sir Handel have discovered.

As of the 2016, Gordon has an occasional tendency to pinning his own faults on others. This was shown when he blamed Henry over having to do his jobs for the day and vice-versa, even though his lateness was what led to the change in the first place. When he and the rest of the Steam Team got in trouble for refusing to leave the shed at night, believing there was a ghost train about (which was actually Henry with a coat of luminous paint), he once again blamed Henry for the predicament.

Despite being labelled as one of Sir Topham Hatt's more sensible engines, he can act senseless if prompted, which is quite often. Because of his reputation, he has a fear of being found out, and often tries to restrain from laughing. Much like James, Gordon can be highly opinionated on an engine's character.

## Livery

Gordon .

Before arriving on Sodor, he was painted in GNR apple green with white and black lining. In a magazine file fact, Gordon was incorrectly painted in NWR green.

In the 2011, Gordon received a yellow and black hazard stripe painted bufferbeam akin to Den's.

In 2016, in his streamlined form, he has painted in a lighter shade of NWR bright blue with silver, red and dark blue lining instead. His number was still painted on the sides of his tender in yellow but instead was smaller and surrounded by a dark blue circle.

## Appearances

###  Spin-Off(s)

* Origins (only speaks in Scotsman's story)
* The National Railway Museum

###  Season 14

* The World's Fastest Engine
* Quadruple Header
* The Great Haul
* The Pride of the LNER
* Scotsman's Wish