Mavis

Mavis

Background information

**First episode**
"The Trouble With Trucks"

Character information

**Full name**
Mavis the Proud Engine

**Age**
Unknown (*Engine*)

**Home**
Island of SodorEngland (*built*)

**Friends**
* Emily
* Fergus
* Diesel
* Salty
* Bill and Ben
* 'Arry and Bert
* Thomas
* Percy
* Toby

**Mavis** is a diesel engine who works at the Ffarquhar Quarry and previously the Sodor Slate Quarry. Her main job is to shunt trucks around the quarries, but she also takes occasional goods trains to Brendam Docks.

Personality
When Mavis first came to Sodor, she was naïve, arrogant and did not take advice very well. She was mostly interested in her own ideas but was brought down to earth after her embarrassing incident at the Ffarquhar crossing. Still, she wanted to see more of the line and schemed to have the trucks push her past the level crossing beyond the quarry - this inadvertently resulted in a near accident for Toby. After rescuing him, Mavis resolved to change her ways for good. She is now more mature and capable of keeping the trucks in line and more willing to take advice.
Unlike many Diesels, Mavis shows respect for the steam engines and unlike most engines, hauling trucks makes her feel important. She is a reliable, honest, and hard-working engine. Over the course of time, Mavis has matured and acts as a motherly figure to the other engines. As a result, she keeps a stern attitude with the troublesome trucks and holds zero patience towards troublesome antics like those from Diesel. Although Mavis means well, she can at times feel cooped up in the quarry, but always cheers up at the chance to stretch her wheels.

Technical Details
Basis
Mavis is a based on a British Rail (BR) Class 04 0-6-0 diesel locomotive. She is more specifically based on the BR Class 04's that worked on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, as they were fitted with additional cowcatchers and side plates so they could run near public roads. Twenty of these locomotives are preserved, including one "tramway" example.

Mavis' basis
Livery
Mavis is painted black with yellow hazard stripes on her front and rear. Her name is painted on the sides of her cab in white and "**THE FFARQUHAR QUARRY CO. LTD.**", is painted on her side plates, also in white.

Appearances
Television Series* **Season 1** - The Trouble With Trucks, Stepney's Problem, A Scottish Tale (cameo), Lorry Takes A Tumble (cameo), Duties of The Diesels (cameo), Wilbert to the Rescue (cameo), Wilbert and Tiger Moth (cameo), Frank and the Trucks (cameo), Wilbert, Frank, and the Milk and Murdoch and the Express
* **Season 2** - James' Tender Trouble, A Flying Surprise (cameo) and Disaster on Sodor
* **Season 3** - Cranky's Delivery
* **Season 4** - Naughty Engines
* **Season 5** - Lorry's Challenge (cameo)
* **Season 6** - The Loose Caboose (does not speak) and Rosie Being Lazy
* **Season 7** - The Final Fate of Spamcan and Stanley, Whiff, and The Troublesome Dumptrucks
* **Season 8** - Tick-Tock-Jock, Frank and the Fib and The Almighty Alfie
* **Season 9** - Tender Bender and Mavis and the Sleepy Engines
* **Season 10** - Scruff and S.C. Ruffey and Coal Crisis
* **Season 11** - Stepney and the Bluebell Branchline (cameo), Big City Rumor, Station Situation (cameo), Just Duck's Luck, Trembling Trevor (cameo) and BoCo and the Cocoa (cameo)
* **Season 12** - Stafford's Electric Slide, The Mavis Matrix and Rheneas and the Risky Rendezvous
* **Season 13** - Duck and the Quack Attack (cameo), Sam I Am (cameo) and Hector and Logan's Hot Pursuit
* **Season 14** - Freddie at the Ready (cameo), Dirty 'Arry (does not speak) and James in a Jam (cameo)
* **Season 15** - Roundhouse Roulette (cameo), Polar Express Coming Through! (cameo) and The Island of Misfit Engines (cameo)
* **Season 16** - Marion Had a Little Lamb (cameo), Painting the Rosie's Red (cameo) and Ace in the Hole (cameo)
* **Season 17** - Unidentified Flying Scotsman, Big Trouble on the Little Western (cameo) and Thomas' Crown Affair
* **Season 18** - Santa Claws

Specials* Thomas and the Storm (cameo)
* Saving Pirate Ryan

Trivia* The Australian Engine and The American Diesels share the exact same horn sound as Mavis' current one from the fifteenth series onwards.
* Mavis' brakepipe is swapped from the right side (its position in *The Railway Series*) to the left in the television series.
* At The Train Shed, Mavis wore one of Toby's faces.
* Mavis used to be one of the characters to appear in every series of the television series since her introduction until the twenty-second series, in which she did not appear in any episodes or any of the following series.
* Mavis' current horn sound is actually a stock recording of a “Canadian” Nathan K3L diesel.