Cassandra

**Cassandra** is a mixed traffic tender engine who loves pulling passenger trains along The Transportainian Main Line, showing off her beautiful looking livery to anyone and everyone (a similar trait James has). Unfortunately, like James, she also despises pulling goods trains.

## Personality

Cassandra is quite vain, and likes to keep up her appearance, a lot like James, and often tries to keep her livery clean and shiny. She loves pulling passenger trains along the main line, as it gives her a chance to show off her beautiful coat of paint to anyone and everyone she meets.

She really hates pulling goods trains of any kind, as it "spoils her image". This attitude of hers has a tendency to get her into real trouble with Dan Peterson.

## Basis

Cassandra is based on the Southern Railway "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class (also known as "Light Pacifics"), a class of 4-6-2 tender locomotives designed by Oliver Bulleid and built between 1945 and 1951. These engines were classified as mixed-traffic locomotives when introduced, and used for a wide variety of passenger and goods trains, including famous expresses such as the 'Golden Arrow' and the 'Atlantic Coast Express'. The "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class engines were smaller and lighter versions of Bulleid's earlier "Merchant Navy" class, originally built with 'air-smoothed' casing, chain-driven valve gear and tenders with tall, streamlined sides. Ten unrebuilt members of the class have been preserved, one of them, Blackmoor Vale on the Bluebell Railway, and another, Winston Churchill at the National Railway Museum. Another preserved member of the class, Swanage, appeared in Thomas and the U.K. Trip when Gacaphin and Mukku were visiting several heritage railways.

While Cassandra is modelled on the unrebuilt version of the locomotive, her tender design resembles the cut-down version used by rebuilt and unrebuilt members of the class in British Railways service. Additionally, she features several differences over her real-life basis, including an altered front end with a larger and lower bufferbeam, driving wheels which share the same design as Hiro's, and plain disc wheels for her front bogie, trailing truck and tender, as opposed to the Bulleid Firth Brown disc wheels found on her prototype. Rebecca's cylinders and cab roof also have a significantly different shape compared to those on the real "Light Pacifics".

Rebecca, Grace, Gwen, Chloe, Vicky, Sapphire, and Bertha and Briana are other members of this class.

Cassandra was originally going to be based on the Winston Churchill from the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

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## Livery

Cassandra is painted maroon with yellow and black running from front to back on her sides (starting from the side of her smokebox to the end of her tender). She also has the number "774" painted in goold on her tender.

## Trivia

* Cassandra's whistle is the same one heard from the *Transformers : Robots in Disguise (2015)* episode Ghosts and Imposters.

* Her bell is located inside her cab.

* Cassandra's personality was originally going to be kind and gentle (when her original basis was a minimum gauge engine). She's now the female version of James.

* Cassandra's model is reused from TTN1GWR's and DA user MiraculousThomasFan's Rebecca model.