Salty

**Salty the Dockside Diesel** is one of the deuteragonists and the sixth diesel on the North Western Railway.

## Backstory

Salty worked at Southampton docks. He had been saddened to know that some USA dock tanks and Brighton E2s were scrapped due to him being there. Ultimately, Salty was purchased for the North Western Railway.

## Brendam crew

### Edward

Edward enjoys listening to Salty's tales of the sea and is impressed with the way he handles trucks and Bill & Ben. Salty also enjoys listening to Edward's stories and his wisdom.

### Porter

Porter came to the docks, and Salty assumed he was going to be replaced by him. However, it turned out they were to work alongside each other. Porter and Salty now sleep in the same shed, and Porter can't sleep without Salty's sea shanties in his sleep.

### BoCo

BoCo admires Salty's enthusiasm and while he doesn't fully understand the sea shanties, is patient with them. Salty also admires BoCo's calm and patient nature.

### Derek

Derek loves to listen to Salty’s stories, and admires his enthusiasm and work ethic. Salty also enjoys Derek’s optimism in tough situations.

### Philip

Salty did find Philip’s constant interrupting stories to be irritating, and he even yelled at Philip to go away. However, Salty realised Philip was really young and he needed to be patient. Philip also realised he talked to much and started to be more respectful.

### Bill and Ben

At first, the twins were annoyed by Salty’s constant stories. However, as time went by, the trio became very close. They now enjoy listening to Salty, and consider him a ‘cool uncle’.

### Timothy

Salty and Timothy have a decent relationship, as the former was grateful when the latter filled in for him at the docks.

### Marion

Salty and Marion have interacted before. The former had told Bill and Ben the story of the Monster of Brandam, and the twins thought it was Marion herself. Not much else is known of their relationship.

### Cranky

Cranky and Salty are polar opposites. Salty is enthusiastic and jolly, while Cranky is stoic and… well, cranky. Cranky also easily gets annoyed by Salty’s stories. Despite this, they do have each other’s back.

## Other relationships

### Rosie

Rosie had doubts about Salty, much like Thomas did, due to the fact that the Class 07s replaced her class at Southampton Docks. It's currently unknown how their relationship was patched up, but in the present, the duo are on good terms.

### Mavis

Mavis and Salty connected over the fact they were both missing their regular homes. The two realised they had to work together to get their job done at the clay pits regardless of their circumstances, and comforted each other. Percy thought Mavis and Salty had crushes on each other, but they were just friends.

## Personality

Salty is a very jolly and ever-hardworking soul. He loves sea shanties and telling stories of the sea. Salty also has a knack with the trucks even Edward and Toby don't know about.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Salty is based on a British Rail (BR) Class 07 diesel-electric shunter. The number he has in the TV show, D2991, is a real BR number belonging to a member of the class; built in 1962, this locomotive escaped the cutter's torch by becoming a static generator at Eastleigh Railway Works and is still working there under the ownership of Knights Rail Services as of March 2007. This class of locomotives worked at Southampton Docks, where they replaced the older SR USA (Rosie's class) and LB&SCR E2 (Thomas' class) tank engines. The Class 07 was notorious for having their axleboxes run hot whenever they were operated at high speeds. Salty has not been shown to have this problem. The real life engine that Salty in this series has, D2986/07002, was built on the 16th of May, 1962, withdrawn 2nd of July 1977, and scrapped in November of 1986.

### Livery

Salty is painted crimson with scarlet warning stripes along his body, yellow and black hazard stripes on his front and rear and yellow buffer beams with signs of rust. At the top of his forehead, he has the brim of a skipper's hat. His name is painted on his rear section in black and his number D6 is painted on the sides of his cab, also in black.

In *Salty Goes Green*, Salty was temporarily painted in a green livery.

Salty's Green livery
## Differences between the TV series and the SeventyVerse

* Salty came to work at Centre Island Quarry in the TV show. It was implied Bill, Ben and Mavis always worked together there. However, in the SeventyVerse, Salty worked at the China Clay Pits and Mavis was there because the Ffarqhuar branch was being repaired.
* Salty had a rivalry with Rosie and Thomas - mostly one sided on their ends - due to their classes replacing each other at Southampton Docks.
* Salty's number in the TV show was the real life preserved example, 2991/07007 (the real life example didn't carry this number in capital stock). In this series, his pre-Sodor number is D2986/07002. The latter number ending in '2' was a nod to the production order of the episode.
	+ Furthermore, a preserved example of an engine would have the same problems as Stepney in this universe.