Series 2/Behind the Scenes

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This is a behind the scenes subpage for Series 2. This subpage contains all behind the scenes material relating to said article.

Behind the Scenes

Concept Art

Concept art for Tidmouth Yards

Concet art for Ffarquhar Sheds and the Station Master's house

Concept art for Knapford Yards

Concept art for Knapford Yards Buildings

Concept art for Crosby Station

Concept art for C&B Barber shop

Concept art for Wellsworth Yards

Concept art for Suddery Junction

Concept art for The Watermill

Concept art for New Harbour

Concept art for the Crocks Scrap Yard

Concept art for Upper Brendam

Concept art for Brendam Harbour and Station

Concept art for the Sodor China Clay Company

Concept art for The Hay Farm and The Sawmill.

Set planning for Gordon Goes Foreign

Modelling

PPL's workshop in 1985 (Note: Jamie Jackson-Moore maintains Thomas' model and David Payne builds Diesel's model)

Bernard Carr with Thomas’ closeup model

Harold's model under construction

Shepperton Studios

Paul 'Spike' Knight out the front of Shepperton Studios during production of Series 2.

Episode Production

Percy Takes the Plunge

Thomas Comes to Breakfast

Wrong Road

Ringo Starr on the Tidmouth Sheds set

Crew Photos

Ringo Starr with Gordon, Duck, Thomas, James, Percy and Sir Topham Hatt

Ringo Starr and his wife at the premiere of the second series

Wilbert Awdry with two Thomas models (His left arm is in a cast)

Wilbert Awdry watching Percy Takes the Plunge

Ringo Starr and Wilbert Awdry at a charity dinner, 18 December 1986

Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell at Shepperton Studios

Terry O'Neill Photoshoot

Crewmember Photos

Photographed on 6 June 1986 (source)

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Jamie Bowering

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Steve Dempsey

John Attwell

Steven Asquith

Terry Permane

David Mitton

Robert Gauld-Galliers

Howard Winter

Bernard Carr

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Character/Building Models and Faces

An asterisk (*) denotes the photographs taken at Pennicott Payne & Lillie Ltd. These models were just manufactured and some differ from the ones in the series.

Duck without whistles *

Inside of Duck *

Bill *

Diesel *

Harold (Note: the different face design)

Thomas, Duck, Toby and Percy's models on display at the Dean Forest Railway with Britt Allcroft and Wilbert Awdry

Thomas' unused close-up first series happy face

Thomas' laughing face

Resin cast of Thomas' unused jovial face

Henry's astonished face

Resin cast of Gordon's laughing face

Gordon's astonished face

James' tired face

Resin cast of James' original smug face

Resin cast of Percy's upset face

Percy's sleeping face

Resin cast of Toby's sleeping face

Toby's surprised face

Donald and Douglas' content face

Bill and Ben's shocked face

Diesel's confused face

BoCo's happy face

Bertie's sad face

Resin casts of Bertie's laughing and shocked faces

Present Day

Duck's model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios Duck's model on display in 2021 (Note the missing face and the cracked smokebox) Duck's model on display in August 2022 (Note: He still features the crack on his front pannier tank) Duck on day two of the event Duck's body shell loose on his chassis Donald's model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan Douglas' model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan Bill and Ben's models on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan Bill and Ben's original Marklin chassis owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Diesel's model formerly on display at the British Museum during the 70th anniversary party Diesel's model on display at the Explore the Rails event Daisy's model on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park in 2020 BoCo's model on display at the first Clearwater Event in 2021 BoCo's model on display at the second Clearwater Event in August 2022 A Series 2 green express composite coach owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch A Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Open Short Truck on display in 2019 A Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Open Short Truck on display at the second Clearwater Event in 2022 A Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Van owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch A Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Van on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park in 2020 The same van on display in 2023. An LNER 12 Ton Van on display at Nitrogen Studios. An LNER 12 Ton Van on display at the 'Clearwater Weekend' event in 2021 (Note: One of the buffers is missing.) A salt van formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios A salt van owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch The salt van on display at Edison Another salt van owned by Twitter user TomsProps A salt van on display at the Clearwater Weekend event in 2021 A salt van on display at the second Clearwater Event A cattle truck on display at Drayton Manor in 2020 A cattle truck at Drayton Manor in 2023 A second cattle truck at Drayton Manor in 2023 A third cattle truck at Drayton Manor in 2023 A fourth cattle truck at Drayton Manor in 2023 A cattle truck owned by Twitter user TomsProps A cattle truck on display in 2021 A standard tanker as an oil tanker owned by Twitter user TomsProps Another tanker as an oil tanker on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan An oil tanker owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch The same tanker with a face along with a L&B van An oil tanker's model with a face at on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park An SR 25 Ton Brake Van on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan Trevor's model on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park Harold's original model on display at the second Clearwater Event Duck and Harold A section of Crosby station building on exhibit in Japan Upper Brendam on display at the second Clearwater Event C&B Barbers and MC BUNN shops on display at the second Clearwater Event The bridge near Wellsworth and Gordon's Hill on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park Jem Cole's small scale figure on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park Donald's snowplow on display at the second Clearwater Event in 2022 Thomas' close-up sad face on display in 2019 Edward's current smiling and tired faces owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Edward's current smiling, sad and exhausted/anxious faces on display in 2019 Henry's laughing face being worn on a fan-made replica at Drayton Manor Gordon's laughing face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Gordon's tired/embarrassed face on display in 2022 Five of James' faces after the model series ended James' grinning (formerly laughing) face on display in 2022 Percy's smug face on display in 2021 Toby's original wider laughing, drowsy and sleeping faces in a primered state owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Duck's smiling face on display in 2022 Duck's duplicate smiling face owned by Twitter user TomsProps Duck's surprised face on display in 2022 Duck's sad face on display in 2022 Duck's worried face on display in 2022 Duck's duplicate worried face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Duck's content face on display in 2022 Duck's cross and grumpy faces on display in 2022 Duck's speechless face on display in 2022 Duck's upset face on display in 2022 Duck's frightened and bashful/relief faces on display in 2022 Donald and Douglas' happy face on display in 2019 Bill and Ben's sad face owned by Twitter user TomsProps Diesel's confused face owned by Twitter user TomsProps BoCo's neutral face on display in 2022 BoCo's cross face owned by Twitter user TomsProps BoCo's duplicate cross face on display in 2022 BoCo's shocked face owned by Twitter user TomsProps BoCo's duplicate shocked face on display in 2021 A Troublesome Truck's square laughing face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch A Troublesome Truck's square second laughing face owned by Twitter user TomsProps A Troublesome Truck's square third laughing face on display at the Tugs Exhibition Spring Event in 2023 A Troublesome Truck's square annoyed face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch A Troublesome Van's laughing face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch Bertie's sad face on display in 2021

Face Reference Photos

Some of the engines' faces

Duck's faces

Production Measurement Reference

Engines

Henry

Gordon

James

Percy

Toby

Duck

Douglas

Bill

Diesel

BoCo

Rolling Stock

Henrietta

Troublesome Truck

Non-Rail Vehicles

Trevor on a flatbed

Terence

List of Sets

Gauge 1 sets

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

1 - The Branch Line Bridge

2 - The Branch Line Cutting

3 - Elsbridge

4 - Tidmouth (1)

5 - Tidmouth Sheds (1)

6 - Tidmouth (2)

7 - Brendam Docks

8 - Wellsworth

9 - Lower Suddery

10 - The Viaduct

11 - The Cow Field

12 - Tidmouth Sheds (2)

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14 - Crocks Scrap Yard

15 - Crosby Bridge

16 - Crosby (1)

17 - Crosby (2)

18 - Suddery Junction

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21 - Suddery Hill (1)

22 - Suddery Hill (2)

23 - Upper Brendam

24 - Knapford Yards (1)

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26 - Suddery Castle

27 - Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard

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29 - Trevor's Shed

30 - Knapford

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33 - The Dual Bends

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35 - New Harbour

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37 - Ffarquhar Quarry

38 - The Watermill

39 - Terence's Field

40 (redressed from 12 - Tidmouth Sheds (2))

41 - Knapford Yards (2)

42 - Tidmouth (3)

43 - Gordon's Hill (1)

44 - Gordon's Hill (2)

45 - Elsbridge Crossing

46 - Elsbridge Yard

47 (redressed from 3 - Elsbridge)

48 - Sodor China Clay Company

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53 - Crowe's Farm Crossing

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55 - The Hay Farm

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59 - Henry's Tunnel

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Scripts and Documents

All scripts for the season alongside production notes can be viewed in PDF form on Google Drive. (Courtesy of Twitter user NothernStarCA)

See also

• Series 1 Reference Sheets
• Series 2 Reference Sheets
• Series 3 Reference Sheets
• Series 4 Reference Sheets
• Series 5 Reference Sheets
• Series 6 Reference Sheets
• Series 7 Reference Sheets
• Series 8 Reference Sheets
• Series 9 Reference Sheets
• Series 10 Reference Sheets
• Series 11 Reference Sheets
• Series 12 Reference Sheets
• Behind the Scenes Images
• Model Specifications