Gordon

* 2019
* 2017
* 2015
* 2013
* 2010
* 2002
* 1990
* 1989

**Gordon** (also released as **Gordon the Big Express Engine**) is big blue express engine.

## Product Description

### **1993 ERTL collector card**

*Gordon is the senior member of the engine family, the fastest and most powerful of the Fat Controller's team - and he knows it. He’s extremely proud, often pompous and inclined to boast. He’s goodhearted, though, and always willing to forgive and use his superior strength to help smaller engines out of trouble.*

### **Historical Note**

*Gordon is based loosely around a Gresley Liner A3 4-6-2, of which The ‘Flying Scotsman’ is the only surviving example.*

### **Shining Time Station collector card**

*Gordon is the oldest memeber of the engine family and the most powerful on Sir Topham Hatt team!*

### **2002 ERTL collector card**

*Gordon is the senior member of the engine family, the fastest and most powerful of sir Topham Hatt's string and he knows it. He's goodhearted though and always willing to help smaller engines.*

### **2002 US Take Along collector card**

*Name: Gordon the Big Express Engine*

*Color(s): Blue*

*Bio: Although Gordon is the largest and fastest of Sir Topham Hatt's engines, he has a good heart and is always willing to help out the smaller engines.*

### **2005 UK Take Along collector card**

*Gordon is the senior member of the engine family. He is the fastest and most powerful of Sir Topham Hatt's engines - and he knows it!*

## Timeline

* 1989 (sticker face, pin-hook couplings, 6 wheels on tender, metal smokebox, oval buffers, blue tender running board, Britt Allcroft licensing, made in China)
* 1990 (plastic 3D face)
* 2001 (Gullane licensing)
* 2002 (two-way magnets, side rods removed, round buffers, detailed cab interior, detachable tender with red running board, name embossed on chassis; only available at Target until 2005)
* 2003 (U-hook rear coupling; only available in the UK)
* 2006 (name printed on chassis)
* 2008 (plastic smokebox)
* 2010 (updated details, CG style face, oval buffers, painted handrails, golden whistle and safety valve, buffers removed between cab and tender)
* 2013 (updated face, cheaper metal, made in Thailand)
* 2014 (clip connectors, blue tender running board, 4 wheels on tender, unpainted buffers, shorter cab; only available in select countries)
* 2015 (one-way magnets, 4 wheels on tender, unpainted buffers, shorter cab)
* 2017 (clip connectors)
* 2019 (hook and loop couplings, round buffers, slightly longer, smaller cylinders, farther apart wheels, buffer beam on tender facing cab)

## Variants

* Gold Rail Gordon
* Surprised Face Gordon from Gordon Takes a Tumble Deluxe Play Scene
* Metallic Gordon
* Lights and Sounds Gordon
* Holiday Gordon (cancelled)
* Talking Gordon
* Snowy Gordon from Gordon's Snowy Special
* Pull 'n Zoom! Gordon
* Snowy Gordon
* Shooting Star Gordon
* Graffiti Gordon

## Availability

* Bertie, Edward and Gordon Set
* 10 Piece Value Set
* Classic Engines Pack
* Gordon's Rattling Cargo
* Sodor Steamies Ten Pack
* All Around the Railway Ten Pack

## Trivia

* Gordon's ERTL collector card mistakenly called the LNER *Liner*. This is most likely a typo.
* Gordon's Shining Time Station collector card incorrectly states that Gordon is the oldest and when the card reads *on Sir Topham Hatt team* it should have *the* before *Sir Topham Hatt Team* or an '*s* after Sir Topham Hatt like this: on Sir Topham Hatt's team.
* Gordon is the only one of the NWR numbers 1-8 not to have a Miniatures or Mini World variant.
	+ Gordon's ERTL model is featured on the following boxes:
	+ Level Crossing Accessory Set (1998-2000)
	+ Tunnel (2002-2004)
	+ Sodor Quarry Set
* Gordon's 2002 ERTL collector card doesn’t spell the Sir in Sir Topham Hatt's with a capital s.
* Gordon's Take Along prototype features black tender wheels.
* Gordon's Take Along model inaccurately depicts him with circular buffers. This was also the case with Diesel 10.