A Day Out with Thomas, James Arrives at Rawtenstall
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A Day Out with Thomas, James Arrives at Rawtenstall
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 1 May 2017
"James the Red Engine" passes the water tower at Rawtenstall Station as it pulls an East Lancashire Railway train from Bury during the "Day Out with Thomas" event. James the Red Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Red_Engine is a fictional tender locomotive, one of the main characters in “The Railway Series” children's books by the Rev Awdry, and the spin-off TV series Thomas & Friends. He first appeared in The Railway Series in 1946, in the book “Thomas the Tank Engine”. Two books in the series, no 3 “James the Red Engine” and no 28 “James and the Diesel Engines”, are dedicated to James. All of the locomotives in The Railway Series were based on prototypical engines; James is a mixed-traffic L&YR Class 28 'Mogul' 2-6-0 tender engine designed by George Hughes. For their “Day out with Thomas event, the East Lancashire Railway used their “Hughes Crab” or “Horwich Mogul” class locomotive 13065 which appropriately for “James the Red Engine” is painted in the LMS crimson lake livery that it will have carried for the early years of its operational life.
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