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Percy is the only engine known to have been named by the Fat Controller.

6, Percy has had a yellow number "6" painted on both sides of his bunker. Percy is painted light green with red lining, and yellow lining on his cab. However, Percy has an added bunker behind his cab, something that his basis doesn't have. Percy is supposedly based on a saddle tank engine built by the Avonside Engine Company. Percy is also known to be a bit accident-prone. He is also known to be rather naïve and has trouble pronouncing certain words. He has also been shown to be somewhat timid. However, he gets into trouble by jumping into situations without thinking them through. Percy ended up winning when Harold struggled to find a place to land. There, he met a self-centered helicopter named Harold, who challenged him to a race.

With Duck's arrival, Percy was sent to the Ffarquhar Branch Line with Thomas. Gordon applauded Percy by saying that prevented a serious accident.Īs the years went on, Percy began to play tricks on the bigger engines, who soon payed him back by telling him about "backing signals." After this, Percy was often bullied and felt overworked. Percy was later stopped when he was diverted onto a siding. He didn't tell the signalman that he was there, and ran away scared when Gordon came running towards him. He was brought to Sodor to help during the big engines' strike.ĭuring one of his first days, Percy was being careless on the Main Line. His wife, Margaret Awdry, encouraged him to get the stories published, with the first book being released shortly after the end of the Second World War. The books came about as bedtime stories devised by Reverend Wilbert Awdry to entertain his son Christopher Awdry who had measles in 1942.

#The railway series series

He went on to regularly appear in the Doctor Who TV series as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of the Doctor's companion Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate.Percy was built sometime in the 1900s, but was supposedly rebuilt before he was sold to the North Western Railway. The Railway Series is a series of books on which Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is based on. In 2011 he received an OBE for services to drama for his long career. He played Albert Perks in The Railway Children, released in 1970. He was unique, typifying the best of his generation, and will be greatly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing and working with him." He also starred in several Carry On movies and had roles in TV favourites Coronation Street and the revamped Doctor Who. "Bernard's contribution to British entertainment is without question.

READ MORE Shopper, 39, dies at high-end jewellery shop as three arrested He lost his wife of 66 years, Gill, last year. "He worked well into his 90's, recently appearing in 'Doctor Who' and the CBeebies series 'Old Jack's Boat'. "His career spanned seven decades with such diverse work ranging from films like 'The Railway Children' and the 'Carry On' series, hit 60's song 'Right Said Fred', a notorious guest on 'Fawlty Towers' and narrating 'The Wombles'. Cribbins' agent, Gavin Barker Associates, said in a statement: "Beloved actor Bernard Cribbins OBE has passed away at the age of 93 Bernard Cribbins, who narrated The Wombles and starred in the film adaptation of The Railway Children, has died aged 93, his agent said.