The ENTIRE Railway Series Timeline - Every Major Event from 1806 to 2020 

Tug: *"I'll be glossing over moments in the timeline that don't really matter."* Also Tug: *"James gets stung by a bee."*

I think Gordon’s retirement is very much miss understood. Pip and Emma now run the daily express to london so Gordon didn’t have to change engines on the mainland. Gordon now runs a more local express service that stops at each station as his final trip each day. He’s not just parked doing nothing like some think.

14:00 I personally always thought of this whole “continuity issue” as follows: Back in the 30’s when “The Flying Kipper” accident happened, it never snowed that much on the west of Sodor, certainly not enough to warrant Thomas’ snowplow. This leads to his arrogance/cockiness about snow (“Snow is silly soft stuff, won’t stop me!”), but then later in the 40’s, the snowfall was worse than Thomas thought it would be, hence his accident. Those of you who see this and like (thank you btw for the likes!) lmk if you agree or disagree.

“Everyone gets plastered with a bunch of talking trains” will always be my favorite quote from this video

I commented this before on the original upload but your comment at 13:45 can be explained - the winter of 1947/8 in the UK was horrendous - huge snowdrifts for a couple of months. So Thomas had seen snow before, but normal British snow. He was overconfident. This is what happens in the UK, we get little to no snow and then once in a generation we get turned into the arctic. Last happened in 2013 I think for a couple of weeks.

Rev. Wilbert Awdry really made something special. These books hold a special place in so many people's hearts, including mine. There may be a few inconsistencies here and there, but you can't deny the effort put into these books and their lore to keep both kids, and the adults reading these books to them invested.

Timelapse 2:01 1800s 4:23 1900s-1910s 7:05 1920s-1930s 12:23 1940s 14:53 1950s 21:39 1960s 27:03 1970s-1980s 28:55 1990s 30:18 2000s (2010s) (2020s)

Its a damn shame the 1 million views this video used to have are gone now :(

This paved way to a beautiful trilogy of the timelines of all the different Thomas canons, and also paved way to the modern Sodor’s Finest, as well as just being an astounding video overall, man when I put it into words this video sounds spectacular, and it is, it’s the perfect “medium” Unlucky Tug video, not that long but also not a short video at all, it’s a happy medium

23:56 Edward's accident looks really damn painful, I won't lie

8:37 always found it weird that Mr "no, the rain will spoil my lovely green paint with red stripes" was all like "oh yes please!" when offered to be painted blue.

I watched this one with my dad. He loved it too. It’s so cool to see how the timeline works. And, a good memory with my dad.

Thanks, Unlucky Tug, this video means a lot to me. It's helped me with the timeline I'm working on for my planned fan series.

Gordon accepting retirement from pulling the express in the final book of the series makes me feel my own mortality.

it’s sad that we didn’t get to see engines like culdee, pip and Emma, and jock and frank. These engines were wonders.

the map visuals were a brilliant addition- thats about the only thing that kept me from getting lost while following along incredible work as always, glad to see it back

The best timeline video of Sodor and it's habitants I have ever seen!

This was the first video of yours that I noticed. After not watching anything Thomas related for nearly a decade (and I had never read any of the books) I came across this. I didn’t fully know what it was, but it looked like Thomas, so I saved it to my watch later. I then found your model series timeline video, which was the first video of yours I ever watched. So happy this is up again.

Here's hoping this upload will somehow get up to 1 million views like the old one.

R.I.P. Niel: the oldest engine on Sodor

Thank jesus you saved this one, this is my favorite of your vids

Imagine if Christopher Awdry himself would continue the Railway Series and write stories about the new characters from the TV series in the books.

This video was my first exposure to your channel, so glad it’s back. It also got me back into Thomas after so many years, so thank you.

Love this video! I was interested in the timeline before this but this got me even more interested and this is so well planned and awesome, personally I wish for someone to make a timeline with everything including all of the classic era, some of the Hit and Miller Era and most of the Brenner Era, but seeing all three separate timelines was a lot of fun too, the CGI one was especially fun, but I love the TVS one the most, with plenty of RWS lore tossed in as we all love the RWS. Great video with so much love and research poured in Tug, this was the start of an amazing trilogy

The railway series is so rich in lore

13:47 Apparently the story takes place in the 1946-47 winter in the UK; Lots of Impairnent and Damage caused by extra harsh cold and mounts of Snow. So what it really implies is that Thomas did seen Snow beforehand, just not as much to suffer a major accident. And That's why he underestimated it. Yes, he couldve learned from Henry's flying kipper but- it's RWS Thomas, you expect him to be compasionate? On Henry too? Pfft-

The railway series timeline is the most Consistent timeline of Thomas and friends

One of my favorite videos of yours. Glad to have it back. 👍

This is such a well-done timeline, and thank you for your work compiling the digital scans! My own boxset unfortunately has some poor quality pictures in a few books, so it's nice to see them in their proper detail

RWS timeline is hella crazy.

I think it’s kind of a shame that Neil was scrapped so early. If he was around by the 60s, he could have been the new pilot engine.

This as always been my fav Unlucky Tug video, glad to see it back

This was my favorite video! Glad it’s back

When this video first came out, it was the video that gave me interest in this franchise again.

In my personal opinion, this was the best video on the unlucky tug. It’s back!

Slight error regarding Duncan's arrival. He came to the SKR after Peter Sam's accident, not before.

Hey tug, thanks for posting the videos.

And the legendary video is back

Amazing video with an interesting timeline!

For the Railway Series universe, a young wizard of the Island of Sodor, named Jedediah Ezekiel used his powerful spell to make all the trains on Sodor, anthropomorphic & created a portal which leads from one dimension to his in the English countryside through the magic buffers called the Magic Railway & he became the guardian of the Magic Railway.

This video reappeared just in time for me to want to watch it again!

I’m glad this video came back

Just what I needed for Sunday night!

That's a very good explanation of the timeline of the books that will become a great TV series (for some eras).

Fun Fact: all of the narrow gauge engines in the railway series are all red except Duke.

It's criminal what youtube did to you and they should be ashamed of themselves. They should be help accountable.

I’m reading all the Rev W Awdry books right now and I’m about half way done reading the Thomas Bible and I don’t want it to end.

Outstanding Job

Thanks or should I say Tanks for re-uploading this

This is very good!!!

AKA the TRUE Thomas canon.

Man, what a time to have! Wish I had these books! :3

I would love to see Tug attempt to make the ultimate Thomas Timeline with RWS, TVS and CGI events all together! 😂

Good job this must’ve took a long time to do

In my canon It’s on the points so that’s why Thomas needs to rush the cranes but it’s spread some trucks are spread over the points and crossed over the point.

Man, I wish Sodor was a real place

This is my favourite vid

Welcome back y’all

Let’s get this back to a million views.

Is nice This Video is back

I did some calculations a while back and found Sodor was in range of German bombers but not the fighters thus it would be risky for the Germans to attack Sodor, that and the fact Sodor probably was not super critical to Britain's war effort so would be of little strategic importance giving the Luftwaffe little incentive to attack Sodor in the first place.

Happy 100th anniversary to the Peel Godred branch line. 😀🙂🙂

Don’t mind me just casually taking notes for my own timeline 2:01 to 3:28 is untouched and the w&s was run by three barely functioning freelance designs 3:40 to 4:07 the mountain railway, does not see this success it wanted, so it was quickly scrapped and shut down, leaving an engine (culdee) to go to the skr as the engines couldn’t handle the higher levels of the mountains 4:51 the W & S do not go into Brandon instead, they build a little port 5:43 a 3rd line was opened to be a goods line for the now merging railways called “the little western” but it’s rock face was too dense for the machinery at the time, so they abandoned the project (for now) 6:15 an older engine, called Molly is brought on loan from the Barrow in Furness railway, along with a reliable freelance design called Percy 6:38 once the line was completed, Percy was kept at the big station to shunt trains, while the experimental freelance designs that the w&s owned are now running the branch up too Farquhar 7:09 percy is officially bought by the NWR along with Molly, but they basically had no time to paint on numbers for them so they remained numberless (Molly still remains numberless to this day) 7:29 Barry is one of these loaned engines from a new branch that goes up to peel, sharing it with the midsodor 7:33 Henry has quite a lot of steaming troubles, but was not stupid enough to wall himself inside a tunnel 7:49 even though his displeasure with Henry the fat director still kept him he is still in his old shape to this day. 8:10 a brand new A1 Pacific comes from the London and north eastern railway comes along, because most of the loaned engines have gone back to their respective owners not including Barry 8:55 the Hydro electric company does not exist in this universe, so the midsodor along with the SKR are still open Basically, all the stories with Thomas are replaced with Percy, and all the stories with Edward are replaced with Molly PT1

My favorite the unlucky tug video of All Time

I know that part of the book was supposed to be a victory for rheneas, but he looks like he’s screaming on the inside in this shot 12:56

@The Unlucky Tug you need to add the other two timeline videos to the timeline playlist!

What an absolutely amazing cohesive recap of the Bible

Please make a thomas podcast with other YTubers,your voice is very calming

I Have A Head Canon For The Dual Tunnel. One Line Connects To Ballahoo And The Other Directly To Crovan’s Gate. In My Mind, Henry Stopped In The Ballahoo Side And Edward Traveled Through The Crovan’s Gate Side.

Best history lesson ever

I mean you could go back farther than this, considering Awdry wrote lore extending back to the 900s AD!!

I watch this video, and it's excellent, and I love it. And now I'm sad. I'm not sure why. Sad and wistful.

I missed this video like missing a loved one.

The Unlucky Tug: Reuploaded

Hi there! I’m new to this channel, so could you tell me the name of the map you used for your timeline videos?

21:14 "buy one get one free™"

How 101 Dalmatians could fit in the timeline: 19:58- 1957 also kickstarts the events of the book/movie 101 Dalmatians, where the puppies are kidnapped but the family makes it back home in time for Christmas. 20:43- The next year of 1958 shows the Dalmatians move to a farm in the country to run a Dalmatian Plantation(In the book & live action movie[which takes place during 1996], it was Hell Hall renamed back to Hill Hall, where the puppies were held by Cruella DeVil at Suffolk in the first place, whereas in Patch's London Adventure & the TV show, it was a normal farm called Cherry Tree Farm formally owned by a widow who sold the place to the Dearly's). 1958 to 1960 would follow the remaining events of the TV show. In 1967 at the end of the Flying Scotsman's visit, Oddball, the spotless daughter of Dipstick, follows her kidnapped family aboard Scotsman's train to London where she saves her family, then foils Cruella again the following year. In 2019, a new generation of Dalmatians once again foil Cruella's plans of attempted murder to make coats for the final time, as age has finally caught up to Cruella who passes away in prison not too long after being arrested.

I love how nothing happens from 2011-2020

I do not know if the original upload original said 1806 - 2021 instead of 2020, but that's my thought

The mid sodor engines are called: Niel, Clive and Matthew

Some scenes in this documentary were part of some of Thomas and Friends episodes from the first 5 seasons.

Little plot hole I've just discovered in More about Thomas the Tank Engine. In The Runaway it's said that Duck helps out on Thomas' branch while he is away. (I know these were written mainly for tv but it's said in the book as well) why? Later Thomas goes to York and Percy, Toby and Daisy manage fine. In Toby Trucks and trouble they also manage while Thomas is on Edward's line. So why was there a need for Duck?

“Sodor sees its first celebrity visitor the City of Truro” Queen Elizabeth four years earlier: 🤨

That some of the videos are back and I was wondering if you could make a s&m railway video

I remember the London bit about on a cd I used to have to get to sleep Gordon said it’s not Houston in’s king cross or something 21:43

17:33 best line ever

This is my 2nd favorite video besides the bwba video

2:00 im gonna find u for putting an ad at this point/hj (i meant it as a joke but CMON MAN)

19:51 RIP Sir Topham Hatt I 😢

finally, its uploaded again, and finally i can advance with my religion project.

Unlucky Tug, do you make your videos in photoshop?

How do they make the locomotives “alive” at the factory? I always wondered.

Hi Unlucky Tug! I'd like to know where you got the year 1926 from for when the locomotive strike and the year Percy arrived is.

In my version of the railway series, thomas and Terence takes place in December,1925 while thomas and Bertie take place in 1926.

I just really feel like they're missing a big opportunity with the direction that they're taking Thomas. Do I do understand the change to some degree to fit with modern-day kids television I really feel like there's a huge for having more adult based illustrated books continue in the Thomas the tank engine series as it did aligned towards the audiences that grew up with it

THE FIRST IS BACK

I mean what if HIT doesn't buy gullane images Jim Henson would

In my Sodor and Freeham AU, Wilbert Awdry Created The Railway Series as an Alternate History Fanfiction to show the world and Sodor what his version of Sodor's History would be, same goes for when Britt Alcroft created the TV Series, Because in My AU Toby and Henrietta came to The North Western Railway In Early 40s instead of The 50s and Duck Arrives in 1948 instead of the 50s, and also it seems like Willbert made Donald and Douglas both Blue while Britt Alcroft made both Blwck meanwhile in my AU Which is sort of the IRL Sodor Donald would be Blue while Douglas would be Black

28:44 you mean to tell me that it took 40 YEARS for Thomas to meet Bill & Ben?

13:45 thomas has amnesia