Series 3/Behind the Scenes

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This is a behind the scenes subpage for Series 3. This subpage contains all behind the scenes material relating to said article.

Concept Art by Robert Gauld-Galliers

Vehicles and Set Dressing

Caterpillar Crane

Soft-Side Lorry, Lady Claire and the Dock Manager's house

The Chinese Dragon

Dilly (Close-up scale)

Bulgy's Hens

Snowman (Small and close-up scale)

Landmarks and Storyboards

Suddery Coastal Village

Tidmouth Beach

'New Quarry'

Slate Quarry

Dryaw Canal Runby

'Bridge over Deep Cutting'

Tidmouth Hault

Dilly's Pond

Henry's Forest (for the episode of the same name)

The Old Ferry Pond (for Trust Thomas)

Ffarquhar River Bridge (for Toby's Tightrope)

The Three Bridges

Brendam Docks (for All at Sea)

Brendam Warehouse Area and Docks

Brendam Warehouse (would eventually become the Sodor Trading Co. building)

The Scrapyards (for Escape - would end up being moved from Brendam to Vicarstown)

Countryside Tunnel

Waterfall Bridge

Runbye Bridge

Bridge Signal Box

Bulgy's Bridge

Tidmouth Sheds (for Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure)

Map of Sodor for Series 3 by David Mitton

Scripts And Documents

Early draft scripts from 6 episodes from the season can be viewed in PDF form on Google Drive. (Courtesy of Twitter user NothernStarCA)

Modelling

Thomas

Nine of Thomas' faces

Robert Gauld-Galliers dusting Edward on the Quarry set

Toby

James, Donald, Douglas and Gordon's tender being refurbished

Henry and the twins being refurbished and James' bodyshell fully repainted (Note: Gordon, Donald, Douglas and James' chassis in the foreground and Puffa and Little Owl's models from TUGS can be seen on the left)

Gordon's model being refurbished

Gordon's model getting its dome milled off by Jeremy King

Mavis' model under construction by Jeremy King

Harold

All the figures

Episode Production

Percy's Promise

Gordon and the Famous Visitor

Donald's Duck

Thomas Gets Bumped

Henry's Forest

The Trouble with Mud

No Joke for James

Thomas, Percy and the Post Train

Edward, Trevor and the Really Useful Party

David Mitton at Wellsworth Station

The bee's animation cel (for Buzz, Buzz)

All at Sea

David Mitton with Duck and Oliver (filming Escape)

Bulgy

Stephen Asquith with Thomas and Percy at Brendam Docks

David Mitton with Crew Members and Duck

Behind the Scenes Footage

TVS Coast to Coast News (October 1991)

James' close-up model

Edward, Donald, Douglas and Trevor's faces

Percy and Gordon

Diesel Does it Again

A Scarf for Percy

Sir Topham Hatt

Lady Hatt

Outtake

Diesel

CBS This Morning (23rd April 1992)

One Good Turn

Bill

Ben

Editing Diesel Does it Again

Editing Thomas, Percy and the Dragon

Promotional Material (Edited from the Reference Sheets)

Thomas

Edward's model

Henry

Gordon's model

James

Percy

Toby's model

Duck's model

Donald's model

Douglas' model

Oliver's model

Bill and Ben

Diesel's model

Daisy's model

BoCo

Mavis

Annie and Clarabel

Clarabel's model

Troublesome Trucks' models

A Mail Van model

A Milk Tanker model

A Tar Tanker model

The Chinese Dragon model

Part of the Breakdown Train model

Terence's model

Bertie's model

Trevor's model

Harold's model

Bulgy's model

Production measurements for buildings and Gordon

Promotion and Marketing

Model Railroader (April 1993)

The making of Thomas the Tank Engine by Michael Edwards (Note: The standard gauge engines are not O gauge but 1 gauge, and O gauge are the Skarloey Railway engines)

Character/Building Models and Faces

Percy's close-up model owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Oliver's model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

Oliver's model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

Mavis' model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

One of the models of the old tenders on display in 2021

Another model of the old tenders at Drayton Manor during the construction of the new prop exhibit in 2023

Toad's model on display at Drayton Manor in 2023

Toad's scrapped model on display in 2021

The Fuel Tanker's model on display at Nitrogen Studios

Bulgy's model on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park during the exhibit's construction

Bulgy after the exhibit's construction (Note: He lost the front bumper and still had his "roofbox")

Bulgy lost the "roofbox" above the the top deck windows

Bulgy's model on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park in 2020

Bulgy's model on display at the Uesugi Museum in 2020

Bulgy's model back at Drayton Manor in 2023

Bulgy's model on display at Drayton Manor in 2023

Donald and Douglas' scrapped model as owned by Twitter user SeansModels

City of Truro's scrapped model on display in 2021

S.S. Vienna's model as S.S. Roxstar inside HiT Entertainment storage

S.S. Vienna's model on loan to the Star Tugs Exhibition

Trevor's new shed at Drayton Manor Theme Park during the exhibit's construction

Trevor's new shed on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

A signal box on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

The eggbox from Donald's Duck (as a 7-plank truck) as owned by Twitter user TomsProps

A small scale Workman figure as owned by Twitter and Youtube user SideKickJason

Another Workman as owned by Twitter user FlyingPringle

2 small scale Workmen figures as owned by Twitter user EDsTrainz

Farmer Trotter's figure owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Another figure with a Series 4 Cricket Player head as owned by Twitter user MachanOfSodor

The Coaling Plant Manager's model as owned by Twitter user MachanofSodor

A small scale dock workman model, owned by Top Props [Note: One of his arm is missing]

Another small scale dock workman model, owned by Top Props

Another Dockworker's small scale figure as owned by Twitter user FlyingPringle

A Lumber Yard worker prior to being sold by The Prop Gallery

A Driver body (later used as a passenger body) and a Series 7 Workman head as owned by Twitter user BowledOut95

Jeremiah Jobling's Railway Inspector small scale figure as owned by Twitter user FlyingPringle

The figure prior to restoration done by Twitter user FlyingPringle

(Note: The blue paint showing underneath hinting at possible past use as a driver body)

The Quarry-master's head in 2019

The Upper Brendam Yardmaster's small scale figure on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

A passenger body as seen in Bulgy (episode), with a Series 4 Cricket Player's head as owned by Twitter user MachanofSodor

The remains of a small scale Driver from Donald's Duck as owned by Twitter user TomsProps

A passenger's arm prior to being sold by The Movie Reliquary

The arm as formerly owned by Twitter user The Railway Board

Toad's unused nameboard owned by Twitter user TomsProps

James' unused first series drowsy face

Duck's unused second series grinning face

Duck's unused second series exhausted face

Donald and Douglas' unused second series shocked face

Diesel's unused second series shocked face

Thomas' sleeping face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Thomas' current smiling face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Thomas' unused frustrated face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Edward's cross face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

James' red-nosed angry face from on display in 2019

Toby's original wider content face in a primered state owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Toby's original wider joyful face in a primered state owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Duck's grinning face on display in 2022

Duck's duplicate grinning face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Duck's exhausted face on display in 2022

Oliver's smiling face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Oliver's cross face owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Oliver's happy face owned by Twitter user TomsProps being worn on a fan-made replica

BoCo's happy face owned by Twitter user TomsProps

BoCo's duplicate happy face on display in 2021

BoCo's sleeping face on display in 2022

Mavis' cross face owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Three Troublesome Truck faces owned by Twitter user TomsProps

A Troublesome Truck's rectangular laughing and shocked faces owned by Twitter user TomsProps

A Troublesome Van's angry face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Toad's unused angry face after the model series ended

Bertie's smiling face on display in 2021

Bertie's cross face on display in 2021

Trevor's joyful and current sad faces owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

A production-made resin cast of Bulgy's cross face on The Prop Gallery

The cast owned by Twitter user SkarloeyRailwayAdventure

Bulgy's sad face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Bulgy's cross face on his model at Drayton Manor

Bulgy's frightened face in a storage bag during construction of Drayton Manor's new prop exhibition

List of Sets

Gauge 1 sets

Episodes 1-16

A total of 53 Gauge 1 sets were constructed for filming of the first half of the third series. In order of their first appearance within this half of the series, these are:

1 - Tidmouth Sheds

2 - Dryaw Canal Runby

3 - Dryaw

4 - Knapford Yards (1)

5 - Knapford Yards (2)

6 - The Watermill

7 - Suddery Coastal Village

8 - Tidmouth Beach

9 - Tidmouth Hault

10 - Elsbridge

11 - The Country Line

12 (redressed from 11)

13 - Low Lands

14 - Wellsworth

15 - The Viaduct

16 - Knapford

17

18 - Lower Tidmouth

19 - The Valley Bridge

20 - Three-Track Post Windmill (1)

21 - Three-Track Post Windmill (2)

22 - Henry's Forest

23 - Lower Suddery

24 - Dily's Pond

25 - Ffarquhar River Bridge

26 - Ffarquhar Quarry (1)

27 - Ffarquhar Quarry (2)

28

29 - The Goods Station

30 - Hackenbeck (1)

31 - The Buckled Tracks

32 - Hackenbeck (2)

33 - Ffarquhar

34 - Brendam Docks

35 - The Lumber Mill

36 - Gordon's Hill (1)

37 - Gordon's Hill (2)

38 - Gordon's Hill (3)

40 - Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard (1)

41

42

43

44

45 - Old Ferry Barge

46 - Ffarquhar Quarry (3)

47 - The Quarry Tramroad

48 - Ffarquhar Quarry (4)

49 - Ffarquhar Quarry (5)

50 - Crocks Scrap Yard

51 - Trevor's Shed

52 - Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard (2)

53

Episodes 17-26

A total of 39 Gauge 1 sets were constructed for filming of the second half of the third series. Some of these were reconstructions of sets from the first half of the series, with minor changes. These are marked by an asterisk (*). In order of their first appearance within this half of the series, these are:

1 - Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard*

2 - Brendam Docks (1)*

3 - Tidmouth

4 - Tidmouth Tunnel

5

6 - Tidmouth Sheds (1)*

7 - The Waterfall

8 - Brendam Docks (2)

9 - Brendam Docks (3)
(redressed from Brendam Docks (2))

10 - Brendam Docks (4)

11 - The Runby Bridge

12 - The Three Way Road

13 - Lower Suddery*

14 - Sodor China Clay Company (1)

15 - Sodor China Clay Company (2)
(redressed from 5)

16 - Upper Brendam

17 - Vicarstown Goods Depot (1)
(redressed from 3 - Tidmouth)

18 - Vicarstown Goods Depot (2)

19
(redressed from 5)

20 - The Works
(redressed from 3 - Tidmouth)

21 - The Cliffs Runby
(redressed from 5)

22 - Tidmouth Beach*

23 - Tidmouth Sheds (2)

24 - Tidmouth Yards (1)
(redressed from 15 - Upper Brendam)

25 - Mountain Village

26

27 - Haultraugh

28 - Bulgy's Bridge

29 - Brendam Canal Station

30

31 - Logging Halt

32

33

34 - Post Windmill

35 - Bridge Signal Box

36 - Brendam Docks (5)
(redressed from 8 - Brendam Docks (2))

37

38

39 - Dryaw Airfield

See Also

• Series 3/Reference Sheets