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Trevor the Traction Engine
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Trevor the Traction Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic character from The Railway Series children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry, and the spin-off television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Trevor is an agricultural engine - a traction engine designed for general farm work, and is thus suited to his work on the Island of Sodor at Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard. Trevor is one of only two steam-powered road vehicles that appear in the books, the other being George the Steamroller. He is voiced by Nigel Pilkington in the UK, and Christopher Ragland in the US in the CGI Series. Appearances, biography and persona Railway Series Trevor is first introduced in the story 'Saved from Scrap', in Rev. Awdry's ninth Railway Series book Edward the Blue Engine. He is presented as a dilapidated traction engine driven by Jem Cole; having formerly performed odd-jobs on farms, he has now outlived his master's perceived usefulness. The reader is told how Trevor was saved from being scrapped after being noticed by Edward the Blue Engine, who persuaded the local vicar (the Reverend Charles Laxey) to save Trevor; Trevor is taken to the vicar's orchard, where he saws firewood and gives children rides around the orchard on church fête days. built in the 1920s for farm work and hauling heavy loads. The , who was a great friend of the Rev. W. Awdry, owned a similar 1927-built Foster traction engine called Fiery Elias, which is probably the exact basis for Trevor. Many such traction engines are still used and looked after by steam enthusiasts, and are often the highlight of vintage vehicle rallies. Theme tune Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell, the former composers of the TV series, based Trevor's theme tune on the classical military march music Entrance of the Gladiators by . See Also
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