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He claimed that the Fat Controller would never agree and states that branch lines are vulgar. In 1965, Gordon complained about BoCo - the new diesel - going on the main line, because the diesel only works on Edward's Branch Line. However, when the truth came out that Duck had not made the nicknames, they began to feel very silly about jumping to conclusions before knowing the true story. As a result, Gordon, Henry and James began to turn against Duck by forbidding him from the shed.
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Later, when Diesel arrived on trial and was having trouble moving some old trucks, he accused Duck by making rumours about him giving Gordon a bad nickname, "Galloping Sausage". This resulted in him losing his dome on the viaduct. Pancras, which he thought was King's Cross.ĭuring City of Truro's visit in 1957, Gordon heard that the famous engine had reached 100 miles an hour and believed that he could reach that speed. Gordon did not like the visit, however, as he discovered that London's big station was St. In 1956, he travelled to London, where he was lauded by a large crowd. After a period of good behaviour, the Fat Controller rewarded him by allowing him to pull Queen Elizabeth II's royal train when she came to visit Sodor. After he was rescued from the ditch, the Fat Controller banned Gordon from pulling passenger trains for nearly an entire year until he proved himself a Really Useful Engine. To get out of pulling the train, he tried to jam the turntable, but he could not stop himself and ran into a ditch. In 1952, he was called upon to pull a special goods train, much to his disgust. This rebuild effectively made him a hybrid with Stanier valve gear, running plate, cylinders and wheels, while the rest above was Gresley built. His conjugated valve gear - which had been giving much trouble - was replaced by a two-cylinder chassis (designed by the Fat Controller) and he received a smoother running plate, as the new cylinders could not fit under the original. In 1939, Gordon went to Crewe for a rebuild. He did not stop until a fitter climbed up and knocked his whistle in place. However, he ate his own words when his whistle jammed and he went running down the main line whistling continuously. Gordon was still arrogant and insulted Henry for the way he whistled. After Percy ran away backwards and stopped in a pile of dirt, Gordon helped him out. Gordon almost had a run-in accident with Percy when the latter carelessly stood on the Main Line. Edward was the only engine left and since he was a tender engine and that Gordon proposed that tender engines do not shunt, they started to discriminate against Edward until the Fat Controller decided to leave them in the shed until they learnt the error of their ways.Īfter Gordon, Henry and James saw how silly they were, the Fat Controller let them out, reminding them to behave and bought a tank engine named Percy to help fetch their coaches. After the big engines had several mishaps (one of which involved Gordon having to pull his train backwards), Gordon proposed that they all go on strike they would only pull their coaches if another engine fetched them. Thomas usually fetched the coaches for him, but then Thomas left the yard when he was given a branch line and Gordon, along with Henry and James, became infuriated when they soon found that they had to fetch their own coaches. Gordon often found Thomas very annoying for whistling rudely at him, so he taught him a lesson by bringing him along with his express train before he could be uncoupled. He also needed Edward and Henry to pull his passenger train after he broke his safety valve in front of Henry's Tunnel. However, he would soon find he needed help from Edward to be his banker after he got stuck on a hill with a train of trucks. In 1923, therefore Gordon was no longer needed and was sold to the North Western Railway together with a spare boiler and firebox.ĭuring Gordon's early years on the railway, he often looked down on the smaller engines like Edward and Thomas. He was used experimentally until all defects had been cured and the first batch of Pacifics had appeared in 1922/23. The design had faults which needed correction, so Gordon was kept "hush hush" and apart from test runs, was never put into regular traffic or assigned a GNR number. Gordon was built at Doncaster in 1920-1921 as an experimental prototype for Sir Nigel Gresley's A1 Pacific design for the Great Northern Railway.