Ella Johnson ("EJ")

**EJ** (short for **Ella Johnson**) is a LMS Fowler 3F "Jinty" class 0-6-0T that works on the Moorland Steam Railway. She is Jinty's older sister

## Bio

Ella Johnson was built in 1926 for shunting duties on the LMS system, but preferred the once-a-week passenger services formerly operated by older Midland 1P tanks. Most of her life was shunting in and around the cities of Coventry and Birmingham (New Street, being LMS metals). She lost the passenger duties in 1938 to her older brother Jinty, built ten years before and was used for a short time by the War Department in 1944 around Newcastle (on LNER metals). Around this time, she would have met , since her life during WWII was heading trains through Newcastle during the closing years of the Second World War. In 1948, British Railways was formed and Ella Johnson, or "EJ" as she liked being called, got the prefix '4' added to her LMS number of '7365', making her BR No. '47365'. In 1964, EJ was withdrawn from traffic and sent to Wards in Sheffield. Instead of cutting her up straight away, she was forgotten and reported as ''scrapped, 1964" by the yard's management.

Around 1971, 7 years after her retirement from BR, she was discovered by Raven upon trying to find parts for future restoration but upon hearing that she would be scrapped, the Q6 decided to try and perform a rescue mission with one of BR's diesels. Ella Johnson's restoration wasn't complete until one year later, following the restorations of five others locomotives and overhauls of the railway's first steam locomotives: Jenny, her younger brother, Hughes, Kate and Capulet. The livery chosen was the "standard" LMS Black, a livery Jinty didn't wear then and hasn't worn since being preserved.

In the mid-1970s, she got caught up in the "Highland saga" and was killed by the Highland Jones Goods pushed her of a steep cliff over Gladsville Harbour (now not in operation as a dockyard). After an encounter with Barton, along with her brother, EJ, with the help of Audie and Titan, changed the timeline so Highland dies instead of herself and Jinty, or even Jenny.

## Personality

Originally, Ella Johnson had a "childish" personality, but developed a more mature attitude over time.

## Livery

Ella Johnson is painted in LMS Pre-WWII Unlined Black with yellow lettering.

## Basis or real locomotive

Ella Johnson is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 422 built for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) for shunting duties and were built by W. G. Bagnall, William Beardmore & Company, Hunslet Engine Company, Horwich Works, the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) and the Vulcan Foundry from 1924 to 1931. They were based on the Midland Railway (MR) 2441 class 0-6-0T of 1899 and were became the standard shunter of the LMS, along with banking duties on the Lickey Incline. They were replaced in shunting duties by new prototype diesel shunters but withdrawals began in 1959 and the last retiring in 1967, albeit one under the National Coal Board (NCB) in 1969). Nine have been preserved.

No. 7365 was built by the NBL in 1926 and was withdrawn from service in 1964. It was scrapped in April 1965.

## Trivia

Ella Johnson's name refers to one of the teachers Shane Sowter had at high school, who left in 2019. Her personality is reflected in EJ's (Ella Johnson's preferred nickname) actions.

EJ's model is produced by Bachmann Europe Inc for their Branchline (OO gauge) range with DCC Sound.

EJ's "childish" personality following restoration introduction is a reference to her voice actress being younger than Jinty's by around two years.

Like her younger brother, EJ was built in Scotland but has a Derbyshire accent.