Rebecca's Family Tree - EXPLAINED! 

Maunsell is actually said as "mon-sell" NOT "man-sell", lol, sorry.

I think a Robert Riddles family tree would be fun, he designed the BR standard engines which includes the 9F (Murdoch) and the 4MT tank (Belle)

4:30 Cool to see you’re a Rebecca fan too. Don’t get me wrong she was rushed into the series, but personality wise. I think her optimistic perspective would clash beautifully with the cynical edge of the other big engines.

Rebecca literally being called the Banana Bulleid 🤣🤣

As a big Q1 enthusiast, let me share my knowledge. The Q1 class were built with modified Lord Nelson boilers that were either left unused or built under that design. It contributed in the incredible power Q1s that they were known for. The Lord Nelsons were just super King Arthurs both in size and looks. Neville is still distant cousin to Merlin, but much closer than any other Bulleid steam locomotive, even to Rebecca who has Bulleid boiler.

It's insane to think Dennis and Neville are cousins of Rebecca

Fun Fact: Bullied used to work for the Great Northern Railway, so maybe some of the engines in this video are related to Emily?

It’s crazy to think how Dennis and Neville are relatives of rebecca

One fun fact: All four Southern-based engines are seen together in Seeing is Believing! Thomas (LBSCR), Merlin (LSWR), Rebecca (SR) and Salty (SROBR).

Neville could have also been bullied because of his class having several… not so impressive nicknames, like “Ugly Duckling.”

Fun fact- Duck, Bill, Ben, Jinty, and Dart are all related. They were designed and built by W.G.Bagnall so thier last names are "Bagnall"

Honestly, this video really made me question whether or not rolling stock and engines would consider themselves relatives

Neville somehow related to the express coaches is funny as hell lmao 😂

It's kinda funny how Rebecca, Neville, Dennis, Merlin and Norman are somehow related.

A fun fact, Bullied also had a heavy hand in the development of the A4 wedge shape, Double Kylchap chimney use on the LNER, The W1 and P2s

Fun Fact: Toby and Hurricane are related, they're cousins. Murdoch and Belle are also cousins as well.

This was a great family tree video Adam and I really love this one. Although I think the next one should definitely be about the Skarloey engines as I'm interested to see where that goes. Keep up the good work Man.

Oh man, I am glad you did Rebecca's family tree! I knew her direct linage and you hinting Merlin being her distant cousin of sorts, but I had no idea the express coaches and Percy's mail vans are cousins on Merlin too. That has me laughing so much and I think just the fact they are considered realted is has funny story potential. I think Gordon would just be dumbfounded how his prestige express couches are realted to a ecestentic character like Merlin. I never even thought of rollingstock characters being related to engines, till now. This is 10/10 for me. In defense of Dennis and Norman exisiting in the same universe, well Awdry has made up extra engines that never existed before such as Bear. It's not that bad. It's really a shame there was nothing done with Norman. Like I read his wiki before and according to it, he wants to be popular with the engines regardless of what fuel they run on and is such a overworks himself because he loves working, despite breaking down a lot. Like it does sound simallar to Derek, but unlike Derek, Norman was on the bad guys side fro a bit, while Derek would never doing such a thing. Perhaps, Norman saw that steam engines seems to get special privlage in his eyes while diesels like him get shafted.Of course, he is wrong, because Topham loves all his engines, but still. It would've been great to see Norman try to impress everyone and agree with everyone's veiw points just so they could like him, only learn that that isn't the way to go to have true friends and be true to your own self. Heck, they could've borught Dennis back and interact with his brother. THey are both opposite charactrs and would've been interesting to explore thier realtionship. Apprently. Norman was thrilled to find hsi twin was on Sodor, but how does Dennis feel about Norman? Paxton, Sidney, Den, and Dart got character to them in the Brenner era while poor Norman got a crumb. It just sucks. Hmmm as for another family tree, I think Duck would be a fun one. I know he and Oliver are cousins based on having the same designer. However, if you take into consideraton of builders....oh boy there is a whole lot to work with. I'll say it'd make Bear, Dart, and a few others that we know his cousins. Heck, I'd be interested in seeing a Diesel family tree video. It would say it could be too predictiable seeing we know all os his brothers in the show, but you know, since the curve ball with the rollingstock, I'd be interested if there was another curve ball thrown in there when it coems to Diesel's family tree.

I genuinely forgot that the express coaches were Maunsell designs (and was unaware of the Mail coaches), so seeing that appearance was quite the surprise. I did know about the BLP in Series 9, but had no idea which one it specifically was, so that was very neat as well. I don't really have much else to say, but I'm with you in the Rebecca fan-minority, always love the queen getting proper recognition for what she does. :P Grand video!

I have no evidence for this, but this is the headcanon I had for Dennis and Norman: Dennis is the real life diesel, he had the exact same stories, the real life one, except when he was about to be put up for scrap the fat controller bought him (Fatt Hatt has a affinity for prototypes.) Kervens gate fixed a lot of the issues the diesel had, even if Dennis would still occasionally breakdown. However, despite his engine being more-or-less fixed, Dennis was a very lazy diesel, meaning that the fat controller commissioned a diesel of his same class to be built to help even out the workload. Luckily, it turned out. Norman was a far more eager to work engine.

Great video. I could totally see an episode where Rebecca strikes up a friendship with her cousin Neville, maybe touch on his past of being bullied in it and how Rebecca reacts to hearing about it.

I’d be all up for more of these family trees. Toby’s might be a bit interesting.

In theory, the Bullieds could all be related to the Gresleys because Bullied was trained by Gresley

I now just realized Neville, Dennis, Norman, Rebecca and Merlin are distant cousins with two Irish turf burning steam locomotives

We need more engine family trees. I don't care which engine it is, I just want more of this series.

I'm so happy you brought up WC, Shildon museum is local to me and seeing it in person is awesome, as soon as I saw this vid pop up I was really hoping it would be brought up! One thing I love about this family is the wheel design, so cool!

In my opinion this is how a thomas family tree works . Same engine type + same designer = brothers/sisters (gordon, scotsman) . Different engine type + same designer = cousins (gordon, spencer) . Same company = step siblings (gordon, emily since the GNR was amalgamated into the LNER) If you have any other ideas pls comment

Its just shocking that coaches and mail cars are technically siblings to steam locomotives so what a crazy family tree

I mean...it WOULD make sense, if Norman was a "New Build" using the plans of Dennis's basis"

I knew you were gonna make a family tree video about Rebecca and I didn’t know that that Merlin is kinda of related to Rebecca, Neville, Dennis and Norman since Merlin’s for funnels were built by Oliver Bulleid and you should make a family tree video about Duck and Oliver next since they were both build by Charles Collet.

Fun fact. Gordon is older than the flying Scotsman was built in 1923. Meanwhile Gordon was a prototype built in 1920

Man Thanksgiving must feel really weird in the Maunsell household

I would love too have seen an episode where all 5 of these engines interacted

I don't mind the fact that two BR 11001s somehow canonically exist in the Thomas universe. I'm sure there's people out there who have made some kind of theory to why two of them exist, but since by like Series 8, or heck, even by Series 6 or 7, the universe seems to be its own thing with things that occur in real life being nonexistent for the most part, it doesn't matter all too much to me. I mean, in the same universe, characters like Carly, Cassia and the Chinese diesel exist despite being 21st builds and Ian McCue confirming that the show takes place in the late 50s-early 60s. Besides as controversial as this opinion may be but I don't thing characters real life/Railway Series build dates apply for the characters in the TVS. That last sentence didn't have anything to do with the video, I know but I thought it would add to my thoughts on Dennis and Norman coexisting.

This is a great family tree next. Can you do Thomas Family tree I like Rebecca to

I see Norman as a fictional add-on character to his class, like Donald and Douglas.

Oh man, I've been waiting for another of these! Wonderful video!

TBH, I actually like Rebecca too; it was a nice breath of fresh air to see a T&F character with a positive optimistic attitude. But I do agree that she was brought onto the TV series too late and too quickly. They should've brought Rebecca on earlier and slowly. This was done with Emily and, though she's a misunderstood character, she's a fan favorite. Little known fact about Oliver Bulleid: he used to work for Sir Nigel Gresley and had a hand in developing some of Gresely's engines like the A4 (Spencer's basis). So, like the Maunsell family tree, the Gresley family tree is somewhat connected to Bulleid's. So, Rebecca and Merlin could somewhat be related to Spencer, Gordon, and Flying Scotsman.

Rebecca actually grew on me. I don’t mind Rebecca as much

I genuinely cant wait for this video i love these family tree vids!

I’ve seen the Q at York many times, and Winston Churchill was one of my favourite locos on a visit to Shildon, but it never crossed my mind that they’re related.

I can't believe no one Gave this family tree idea, i Would like to see Diesel's family tree

Yes I’ve been waiting for this!

THE BANANA BULLIED - best words in da world

Keep going, love thees types of videos.

loved the comedy in this one Adam!

I feel that the reason a lot of older fans of the show dislike Rebecca (and likely Nia) Is because their introduction resulted with removing some of the OG characters from the main team in order to balance the gender representation of the crew. There would likely have been better received if they had been added to one of the secondary crews for example the "little Western" or being based in one of the other locations like Vicars town as most of the engines are currently associated with the Tidmouth /Knapford/ Farquarr area at the other end of the island or the Brendham branch and quarry, building a new crew near the mainland would have allowed more interaction with non-sodor engines and given the new additions their own spotlight and opportunities for the writers to make stories revolving around some of the less seen engines like they did for the Mid-Sodor and Skarloey engines in the model series.

I would love to see Thomas’s family tree

So if all engines inherit their builder's name, Rosie's last name is Hill. Since the SR USA Class/USATC S100 Class was designed by him.

I thought I was gonna gain a migraine when you brought up the fact that the express coaches & Utility vans built by Richard Maunsell are technically related to Merlin! Man, what a twist! But another job well done sir!

I love these family tree episodes !!! So fun! love to see more

I thought that instead of being scrapped, the King Arthur class with 3 funnels was re-converted back into a single funnel?

Bulleid Madness: "A Bullied Bulleid that was Bullied for being a Diesel-shaped Bulleid"

5:33 The Coronation Scot is behind as well. If u know enough about them, the Princess Coronation class is a Stanier design, making them brothers/ sisters to Duchess of Loughborough and Duchess of Hamilton. Making them distant cousins to the Gresley's

Would have been cool to see Neville and Dennis interact since they were both cousins introduced in the same season

We need more of these

I was already mind-blown for most of th vid. Then he mentioned the expeesss coaches and mail trucks and I lost my mind.

Neville’s story is about that there is more than meets the eye. Also Dennis’s class being unsuccessful could explain his lazy personality. Another theory and possibly a head cannon, Dennis brought Norman to Sodor since his engine class was being scrapped. By the way the Bulleid Class Locomotive named after Winston Churchill could’ve made the Hit Era better.

Those neville parallels are hilarious 😂

Ngl I love these family vids we need another one maybe since they great in my opinion

Thomas' family tree would sound interesting.

Any chance we could see thomas', Edward's or Toby's fanily tree? Or maybe the wacky family tree of percy, stanley, billy and charlie xD

THX U

6:07 true words have never been spoken because if we had a battle britain class in the model series then it would be introduced in season 3 where we'd get a battle Britain class named Rebecca who would make for a great season 3 character who would make a return in season 21.

Nice

The whole Norman and Dennis co-existing never really bothered me. There’s precedent for that in the series prior. Donald, Douglas, and most of the numbered diesels in the series shouldn’t exist; their numbers come after the irl last numbers of their classes. Skarloey and Rheneas are both fictional duplicates of their one-off bases as well. What does boggle me a bit more is the idea that they’re supposed to be twins. Their faces look so different, and Norman’s clearly has an older look to it compared to Dennis. It becomes especially weird if Dennis is indeed to original 11001 and Norman is the fictional duplicate (“11002,” you might say), cuz that’d mean Dennis is older. I have a whole convoluted headcanon for how that works out, but left as is, it’s weird

fire vid ngl

Narrow gauge family next please

Honestly i wish the show and other fan made episodes made stories about the engines realtionship with other engines like what awdry did with gordon and scotsman

4:49 Omg that’s shildon railway museum! That’s my local rail museum! Nice!

I really enjoyed watching this video, Honestly Rebecca is kind of mid to me. She was sort of just there to sweep Emily “under the rug” if you know what I mean. Along with Nia, Both Of them have done nothing but sort of just dare to entertain the kids and makes us feel kind of bored and somewhat annoyed of their episodes spotlight. One day I WILL Make an AU For Rebecca along with Kana and Bruno. Both of these characters must have potential. And if not it's like we're just throwing them into the bin without giving them a chance. I can’t promise if I make an AU video Mostly because I'm busy in life right now BUTT With a little hope, Maybe I'll have a chance. If I get one of course.

Fun fact, after the failure of the Leader, Bullied came here to Ireland and designed the also ill-fated Turf Burner, the last steam locomotive built in our country.

I enjoyed both of the family tree videos! Can you please do Emily's family tree?

I have a feeling you've had a lot of fun making this video. Didn't you, Thomas Theorist?

Maybe you can do Edward's family tree next

Imagine this if Thomas was based off American railroads, the entire family tree would be one 2 hour long video covering 90 percent of the characters..."OK, so they're all Baldwin Locomotives..."

It’s sad that Norman got neglected

I wonder what family tree you’ll do next

One thing i learned from Thomas is Don't trust every poster you see Cause in the episode "Edward the great" (i think) a poster is seen adverising the Olympic (scrapped in 1935) even tho spencer (meaning mallard class had been built in 1938) was a character that already existed So either they forgot to take it down in the TTTE universe or a memory to the big 3 Update: i found the poster and it is a olympic class ship, and the poster is from 1930

I don't mind things being weird And also, I'm getting a thrill out of these kinds of video.

I find it really strange that these characters are all connected, they've never known each other before, and they all get bullied by crashing into things how both really weird and strange is that both dudes and dudettes.

Wait if engines are given family trees by their designers would that make Percy an orphan since he isn’t based off an actuall engine???

I Wanna See More Of These, even if some of the characters' don't have a full family tree.

The express coaches count, because in Thomas Gets Tricked, the coaches speak.

great video! i always like to thing that the fat controller fixed dennis' engine problems and when he then proved good working, the fat controller build another one for himself: norman

If you are planning to do more of this may I suggest a Hopefully Easy one, The Diesel Family Tree

8:17 omg 1st In series fir family tree to be train cargo in it.

I wish Nevild appeared more. +6:15, "Oh no!"

Can you do another one please I like these

Bro got bullied for being bullied 💀💀

So, what you’re saying is that family trees down south can be quite confusing?

Part of me wants to think Norman was a new build on Sodor - we don't really ever get those... Cool we've steam and diesel cousins. Would merchant navies factor any differently? Maybe they could tie to the Gresley as Bulleid was his assistant

I want Edward’s family tree next.

I feel like in my headcannon Norman was a class 08 that had a bad crash and Oliver bullied had helped rebuild and Norman into his workshop and made him look like 11001 to try to make him like dennis and it worked so technically in my head cannon he is a half bullied so Dennis's half brother Loved the video though!

we getting out of the scrap yard with this one 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🔥

6:20 this is true. Very true.

And although he doesnt appear in the tv series, he is a brother to rebecca, so i'll add merchant navy aswell, making him merchant navy bulleid! Along with all the other surviving battle of britain class engines

So I just watched the Gordon one and the comments are disabled, thanks RU-vid. Henry is presumably still Henry because his face/smoke box is the sentient part? I would say engines in the same class are brothers and engines by the same creator are at least cousins. Henry would be a step-cousin to the Gresleys. And Merlin would be a half-cousin to the Bullieds, in my mind. That's all, I've enjoyed both of these videos thank you.

I wish Neville was in CGI

Dare you to do diesels family tree