North Western Railway

The North Western Railway (abbreviated as NWR) is The Fat Controller's Railway and was first created in 1914 after a government-funded joining of the Island of Sodor's standard gauge (4'8½") railways. The railways involved were the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light and the Wellsworth and Suddery Railways. In 1948, it became the "North-Western Region" of British Railways, but this term was never used as the railway kept its operating independence. With Privatisation in the early 1990s, it officially became the North Western Railway.

The railway's works are at Crovan's Gate. The NWR's headquarters were at first in Vicarstown, but were relocated, along with the main engines sheds, to Tidmouth in 1925.

The railway's motto is "Nil unquam simile", which, translated from Latin, means "There's nothing quite like it!"

Routes

• The Main Line
• Norramby Branch Line
• Kirk Ronan Branch Line
• Peel Godred Branch Line
• Edward's Branch Line
• Thomas' Branch Line
• The Little Western
• Quarry Branch Line
• Ulfstead Branch Line
• Toby's Branch Line
• The Loop Line
• Stepney's Branch Line
• Misty Valley Branch Line
• Killdane Branch Line  
• Harwick Branch Line

The Engines

Thomas

The Works Diesel

Pip

Emma

Bill

Ben