| | Skarloey Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) |
 | | The mythology of the Skarloey Railway is based very directly on the Talyllyn's struggle for survival in the late 1940s and 50s - the original owner Sir Henry Haydn Jones is matched on Sodor by Sir Handel Brown, and Talyllyn manager Edward Thomas by Peter Sam, the Thin Controller. |
 | | Sir Haydn wears his red Corris livery and Edward Thomas is now Talyllyn green, although he carried the name "Peter Sam" in red Skarloey Railway livery in the 1990s, as did No. 3 (Sir Handel) in the 1980s, described by Christopher Awdry in "Great Little Engines". |
 | | Although as we all know Duke was rescued to run on the Skarloey Railway, his stories are essentially about another Railway which closed earlier, the Mid Sodor Sodor Railway. |
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