Ali

**Hailey "Ali" the Barrow Pilot** is a supporting character in the Seventyverse and is owned by the Killdane Ironworks. She was originally owned by British Railways. She is the Seventyverse version of Arry and Bert's triplet from the 2006 video game Right on Time.

## Backstory

When the island was hit by a drought, Sir Topham Hatt was concerned with water shortages on the railways so he asked Ali, Prisca and Lyla to help out for a railway. Ali went to help to help out on the Little Western, which made Duck and Donald rather anxious, especially given that her livery the same as that of Arry and Bert's. Ali said that she was aware of their bad encounters with her triplets but assured them she was nothing like and revealed how she sometimes wishes she was a steam engine because of the attention they get, even calling them admirable in her eyes. This surprised the two steam engines and they agreed to give Ali a chance.

Years later, Ali became the third engine of the Killdane Ironworks following Arry's sacrifice and Addison's defeat, hoping to keep Bert company.

## Relationships

### Duck and Donald

Both engines were creeped by Ali at first, due to her having the same livery as Arry and Bert, but after she assured them she was a good sort and revealed how he admired steam engines (even sometimes wishing to be one herself), the two engines warmed up to her.

### Diesel

When Ali came back a second time to help Diesel with the backlog at Knapford, Diesel comments that it's a shame they live on opposite sides of the line and stood up for Ali when the trucks teased her for being Arry and Bert's triplet.

### Arry and Bert

Ali reveals that she is creeped out by Arry and Bert, due to their past actions. Despite this, Bert was grateful for Ali coming to help him after Arry was killed in the second Dieselworks fire.

## Personality

Unlike her triplets, Ali is a friendly sort of diesel and is creeped out by Arry and Bert. She also sometimes wishes that she was a steam engine and sees them as admirable. Ali has a dark sense of humour as when the trucks teased her for being Arry and Bert's triplet and Diesel threatened to put them on "The Scrap" to Crock's Scrap Yard for a month, Ali commented it was just as well they wouldn't be working at Barrow as the Ironworks there completely burnt to a crisp, with some trucks inside. Ali also appears to be somewhat of a leader for herself, Prisca and Lyla at Barrow.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Ali is based on a British Rail (BR) Class 08 diesel-electric shunter. In the real world, BR Class 08s were in fact the most successful shunting engines in the world with 996 of them built. Over seventy of them are preserved by heritage railways, such as the Dean Forest Railway and museums, such as the National Railway Museum. Around one-hundred BR Class 08s also remain in service on the national rail network. Ali's real life counterpart was built 10th of September 1953, withdrawn 17th of May 1981, and scrapped May 1985.

Diesel, Arry, Bert, Paxton, Sidney, Ulli, Zeke, Rayker, Matias, Prisca and Lyla are also based on BR Class 08s.

### Livery

Ali is painted in the same green-grey with yellow cabs and yellow hazard stripes on her front as Arry and Bert, minus the words Sodor Ironworks since she wasn't owned by them. Her name is painted on her sides in white. Ultimately, after the fire of *Engines of the Same Metals*, she does get the "Sodor Ironworks" lettering on her side, as well as the number KW3.

## Differences between the video game and the series

* In the video game, Right on Time, Arry and Bert's triplet was male, had no name and seems to be as troublesome as Arry and Bert. In this series, Arry and Bert's triplet is female, is called Ali and is the complete opposite of Arry and Bert.

## Trivia

* The preferred voice actress for Ali is Meredith Scott Lynn who voiced Vitani from *The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride*.
* Ali's numbers are BR 13062/D3062/08049. This locomotive entered service in 1953 and was scrapped in 1985.