Millie

Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)

Halim Jabbour

Sam Wilkinson

### Occupation

Sir Robert Norramby's private engine (cartoon)Private train driver (fanfic, as a human)

### Family

Mademoiselle Geraldine Beaugendre (mother, in the fanfic), Etienne Beaugendre (father, in the fanfic), Victoire Beaugendre (older sister, in the fanfic), Hubert Beaugendre (younger brother, in the fanfic), Marie-Thérèse Arnaud (maternal grandmother, in the fanfic), unnamed maternal grandfather (in the fanfic), Sophie Beaugendre (paternal grandmother, in the fanfic), unnamed paternal grandfather (in the fanfic)

### Friends

Thomas, Percy, James, Gordon, Edward, Henry, Emily, Rebecca, Nia, Toby, Sir Topham Hatt, Duck, Bill and Ben, Timothy, Rosie, Stanley, Ryan, Sonny, Diesel, Daisy, Salty, Porter, Paxton, Sidney, Philip, Victor, Skarloey and Rheneas, Whiff, Marion, Skiff, Hiro, Kenji, Mavis, Annie and Clarabel, Charlie, Billy, Terence, Bertie, Bulgy, Cleo, Ruth, Donald and Douglas, Cranky, Carly, Judy and Jerome, Elizabeth, George, Peter Sam, Sir Handel, Mighty Mac, Duncan, Freddie, Duke, Owen, Merrick, Harvey, Luke, Stephen, Glynn, Shane, Aubrey and Aiden, Tamika, Ace. Isla, Spencer, Henrietta, Hugo, Rocky, Harold, Flynn, Captain, Butch, Belle, Nelson, Jack, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty, Kelly, Byron, Ned, Isobelle, Patrick, Brenda, Buster, Darcy, Kevin, Oliver, Ashima, Rajiv, Noor Jehan, Shankar, Charubala, Lorenzo, Beppe, Gina, Stefano, Ester, Gabriela, Gustavo, Raul, Marcia and Marcio, Fernando, Hank, Sam, Gator, Norman and Dennis, Hong-Mei, Yong Bao, An-An and Yin-Long, Den, Dart, Beau, Toad, Duchess, Lexi, Theo, Hurricane, Merlin, Frankie, Beresford, Caitlin, Connor, Ferdinand, Bash and Dash, Emerson, Lei, Natalie, Cassia, 'Arry and Bert, Bert, Rex, Mike**Fanfic:** Ten Cents, Sunshine, Theodore, Emily, Hercules, Big Mac, Warrior, Grampus, O.J., Top Hat, Big Mickey, Sally, Boomer, Frank and Eddie, Oliver, Foduck, The Dispatcher, Izzy Gomez, Captain Star, Captain Zero, Zak, Zorran, Zebedee, Zip, Zug, Mighty Mo, Lucy, Phillip and Filmore, Hank, George

### Likes

Works on the Estate Railway, helping, Luke and she swapped their jobs for a day, Luke**Fanfic:** Her parents, Paris, France

### Dislikes

Being teased by Stephen and Samson, Stephen left the garden waste

## Physical Apearance

### Eye Colour

Black (cartoon)Arctic blue (fanfic, as a human)

### Complexion

French blue with white lining, brass fittings, golden running board and boiler bands (cartoon)Pale (fanfic, as a human)

### Status

Alive

**Émelie "Millie"** is one of *Thomas & Friends* characters. She was Sir Robert Norramby's private narrow gauge tank engine from France. She works on the Estate Railway alongside Stephen and Glynn.

## Biography

### *Thomas & Friends*

Millie is a bubbly French engine who is owned by Sir Robert Norramby, and who runs the narrow gauge line at Ulfstead Castle, where she lives and works. Her duties include assisting the groundskeeper and taking visitors on tours of the estate. For this, she has her own open-topped carriages. While the Earl was travelling the world, Millie stayed in her shed at the castle.

Millie once swapped jobs with Luke. Although she struggled to adjust, she ended up loving the Blue Mountain Quarry, although she was pleased to return to her own job at the castle and even more pleased to have made friends with Luke.

While she was helping with construction of the Dinosaur Park, she was teased by Samson and Harvey for being afraid of the Megalosaurus model. She decided to pay them back by asking the groundskeeper to make a bonfire by the model volcano to create the illusion that it was actually active.

When Glynn arrived on the Estate Railway, Stephen became jealous of the Coffee Pot, Millie, however, was more welcoming. When Glynn asked her what the Earl was planning, she suggested he was planning on building a railway museum. After Stephen stated that he would conduct tours while Glynn would become an exhibit, Millie joked the opposite would be true. After the two old engines decided to have a race, a concerned Millie decided to tell the Earl. The Earl met the two at Knapford, where he confirmed Millie's theory that he was building a railway museum.

Once, when Millie was given extra work and spent the day collecting gravel from the Blue Mountain Quarry, Stephen neglected to do her regular chore of moving the garden waste. Fed up, Millie decided to teach Stephen a lesson by dumping the waste in front of his shed, only to get even crosser when Stephen mocked her in retaliation. The following day, Stephen could not find Millie, and worried that she had run away because of his teasing. Stephen left the estate to look for Millie, but ended up running out of water near Crovan's Gate. Luckily, Millie and the Earl found him and explained that they had only left to pick up a new motor for the castle turntable. Millie and Stephen made up their quarrel, and, once Stephen had taken on more water, headed back to the castle together.

## Personality

Millie is a narrow gauge engine. She has worked on the Earl of Sodor’s Estate Railway for many years. She is very loyal to the Earl and her relationship is like that of a personal servant. They have fun together and are as close as many friends, but there is also a certain formality to their relationship. Millie is a youthful, fun-loving, friendly engine who is full of spirit and can be fiery when crossed. But she is also fair-minded and never spiteful. That said, she will take it upon herself to teach an uppity engine a lesson, should she feel the need. She always wants to do the best by the Earl and will defer to his judgement in all things, but when it comes to other engines, she has a mind of her own.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Millie is based on 0-4-0 well tank No. 8069 "Tabamar", built in 1911 by Borsig, under contract from Decauville. "Tabamar" is preserved at the Chemin de fer des Chanteraines in Paris, France. In 1995, Tabamar visited the Ffestiniog Railway, where it served on drive-an-engine duty at Boston Lodge. Unlike her basis, Millie has a rear coal bunker and has been regauged from 1ft 11 5⁄8in to 2ft 3in.

## Physical Appearance

### Livery

Millie is painted French blue with white lining, brass fittings, a golden running board, boiler bands and wheel spokes. Her wheel rims are also French blue. Sir Robert Norramby's crest is painted on her cab sides and her name is painted in white on the sides of her boiler.

### Fanfic

As a human, Millie had pale skin tone, short light blonde hair in a pixie style, arctic blue eyes and wears French blue blazer with white lining on each lapel, white shirt, black necktie, French blue skirt, white tights and black Mary Jane like high heeled shoes.

## Fanfics

The Secret & Dearest Life of Everything in Sodor

Millie appears in the fanfic as a human, she works on the Estate Railway as the Earl's private train driver along with Stephen and Glynn. During her job on the North Western Railway, she saw Percy drives his engine, pulling the passenger coaches with Thomas' two coach women, Annie and Clarabel, running the Ffarquhar Branch Line for Thomas when he was seriously ill. She tells him how Thomas is, but he told her that he was seriously ill after a few days when he works on the Japanese Railway with Hiro and Kenji in Japan.

In the third series of the fanfic, Millie takes Percy, James, Ten Cents, Sunshine, Theodore, Hank and the others to France as she returns to Paris. They're going to Beaumont to see Millie's family, her parents Etienne and Mademoiselle Geraldine Beaugendre, older sister, Victoire, younger brother, Hubert, two grandmothers, Marie-Thérèse and Sophie and two unnamed grandfathers.