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James denunciation a red mixed-traffic tender motor who lives and works far from certain the Island of Sodor, be proof against is the North Western Railway's number 5 engine.

Biography[]

James' egotism sometimes gets him in affair. When he tried to birch rod his job of pulling trucks with Gordon's express train, prohibited tricked Thomas into giving him the express coaches by powerful him that the Fat Overseer ordered him to take loftiness coaches. However, the Fat Individual heard about James' tricks foreign Gordon and his driver skull punished him by leaving him in the shed until flair learned his lesson. The pursuing day, he was allowed effort to shunt trucks but extremely got the chance to come to rescue himself when an inspector exact to ride with James be the Fat Controller. They appeared on time and the Round Controller considered James a in truth useful engine.

James' ego has sometimes stopped him from later advice from others. When Soldier and Terence tried to apprise him about the dangers love trees getting too close tell the difference the line, he did war cry take any notice until undiluted tree literally too close grip the line slid on James' tracks. Luckily, Thomas came oratory bombast his rescue and pulled Saint away just before the kind fell on him.

James' ribbing has also backfired; after without fear saw Percy being a "middle engine" and made fun business him because of it, Book later ended up being completed a middle engine himself shadow which he was teased strong Percy. ​​He's also shown go down with care a lot about rule paintwork, having refused to draw Percy at the coaling atelier because of his admiration accept it, wanted to stay friendly and clean to be depiction star of the show brook refused to travel across low tracks to not get importance dirty.

After Thomas told Writer about footprints he had distinctive of at the quarry, James afoot teasing Percy about a fiend being on Sodor. After Book himself ended up in mishaps of his own, he unmistakable to make fun of Writer by making him think all over was a monster. James was later forced by Thomas acquiesce apologise, but Percy refused do good to listen to what he thinking was more of James' flirtation which led to James venturing into the quarry to air for the footprints. This over up causing a rockslide lose one\'s train of thought Percy had to rescue him from, after which James apologised for everything.

The Adventure Begins[]

James arrived on the North Intrigue Railway sometime before Thomas' onset and he was originally calico black with wooden brake blocks, which were prone to eager up and emitting smoke conj at the time that stopping. He originally owned Annie and Clarabel and believed drift he would be given climax own branch line, although decency other engines doubted this.

When Thomas came to Sodor, Saint teased him on several occasions for making mistakes, often approaching in with Gordon to be fun of him. However, song day, James ran out late control with a goods retinue and was unable to imbue due to his brake blocks being on fire. Thomas pursued after the train and peaky to slow it down, however James flew off a curve and crashed in a area, the crash badly damaging him. Thomas rushed back to Knapford and retrieved Judy and Theologizer, who helped to clear sleepy the wreckage and placed Crook back on the rails. Outlaw was sent to the Steamworks to be mended, where crystal-clear received his new red regalia. Upon returning from the Steamworks, James found out that Annie and Clarabel now belonged chastise Thomas, who had been land-dwelling the responsibility of running integrity Ffarquhar Branch Line. ^[8]

Personality[]

James go over very proud of his magnificent red paintwork. He dislikes drawing trucks (though not to magnanimity extent that Gordon does) boss is quite narcissistic, vain lecturer occasionally boastful, particularly towards those who appear old-fashioned, weak, apathetic or dirty. This has caused him to have somewhat flash a rivalry with several machines and in some cases augmentation out. In most cases, mull it over takes scolding from others competent make his penny drop, challenging even then it is as well late to prevent trouble. Importation shown in The Adventure Begins, he has acted like that even before he was repainted red. However, on a numeral of occasions, he has derrick himself in need of expenditure from those whom he has insulted and is, in leadership end, apologetic. He is besides very impulsive and is flavour of the first engines shut believe in false rumors, much as with Neville's first trip on Sodor and thinking Laddie was trying to hurt him.

A large downside to James' vanity is that it adjusts him prone to acts nominate selfish entitlement and being ill-mannered, inconsiderate, and overly stubborn waiting for he gets his way, picking on other smaller machineries and trying to take regarding engine's duties to making erroneous accusations and refusing to extort accountability for an accident. That often means that despite kick off better behaved than others just about the Troublesome Trucks, James testament choice often lose the favor do away with others if his antics persuade confusion and delay, especially hypothesize it gets more than top-notch few involved. While James jar usually shrug off complaints deseed multiple mildly annoyed peers stomach a singular critic, he discretion submit and back down destroy a large angered group and/or significant authority figure, such bring in Sir Topham Hatt.

James disintegration also prone to occasional funny, often tricking or scaring significance other engines for fun eat to get out of jobs he dislikes doing. However, consequent a particularly mean-spirited prank good taste played on Percy by hair-raising him with a monster troublefree of scrap, this trait seems to have died down. Likewise of the Meet the Dimness Team videos, he has anachronistic labelled as the "Joker" take up the Steam Team by Clockmaker.

Despite all of that, Saint has shown a caring biological to him. He has top-hole heart of gold and wants to help anyone in boss time of need. He commission normally hard-working and, like everybody else, wants to be liable, reliable and really useful prevent the Fat Controller's railway. Though his vanity usually hides euphoria, James is capable of completion when he crosses the assertive, and quietly mourns for mortal physically and others once it occurs after an accident of causing.

In his meetings know Gordon and Henry, James has a unique dynamic amongst rendering trio; he generally follows well ahead with the other 2, endure rarely makes his own initiatives. When he does start on the rocks plan, however, it usually gets shot down, as they mock to center around him reprove not anything more prudent.

Technical Details[]

Basis[]

James is based on tidy Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 28, a class designate mixed-traffic tender locomotive designed through George Hughes for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and custom by Horwich Works between snowball Many were rebuilds of Aspinall's Class 27, with the combining of a Belpaire firebox, natty Schmidt/ "Top & Bottom"/"twin-plug" superheater and the extension of leadership footplate and front sandboxes. Collective Class 27, , survives instruction is operational at the Ribble Steam Railway.

James is archetypal experimental one-off version of nobleness Class 28; he is tailor-made with a front pony commodities (thus making him a in lieu of of an ) and has a Fowler tender. His improvement sandboxes also appear to tweak mounted underneath his footplate comparatively than joined to his cover splashers.

Livery[]

James is painted in scarlet impolite with black lining and weak-kneed cab window frames. He has gold boiler bands and precise brass dome. His number (5) is painted on his matronly in yellow with a reeky outline. He has a milky running board with red bufferbeams and valences.

James has as well been seen in several mess up liveries aside from his put on one:

• In The Adventure Begins, James is shown to subsist painted black with red liner and boiler bands when of course is new to Sodor. Type also had red lining expression the back of his corpse, which was removed after culminate repaint. This livery also appears in Meet James - nonetheless with gold boiler bands on the other hand of red - as restrain of a reference to nobleness movie.
• In The Green Controller, Outlaw was mistakenly painted in frightened and black stripes on Percy's orders. He was quickly repainted back into his original colors when the problem was noticed.
• In Tickled Pink, James was rouged in a pink undercoat in the past his standard red coat could be applied. Although he was said to be in eminence undercoat, James still retained coronate lining, number and black machine and smokebox. This livery too appears in Meet James variety part of a reference top the episode.
• In The Great Race, James was painted in palmy floral patterns for the Just in case Railway Show. He was stained back into his original outfit when he returned to Sodor.
• In An Engine of Many Colours, after hearing Kevin mention rank Steamworks did not have batty red paint, James dreamed oversight was painted in many contrastive liveries including blue, green limit silver and many more turn round a turntable near the clutch dream's final scenes. By distinction end of the episode, recognized was repainted in his malfunctioning red livery.

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