LC99149 - LC99005 - Wooden Thomas & Friends James
James was built by George Hughes at Horwich Works in 1915 as an 0-6-0 with wooden brakes. After his first accident he had his front sandboxes removed, was rebuilt into a 2-6-0 with a proper brake and a Fowler tender and repainted red with gold stripes and blue lining. He was troublesome when he returned, ruining Sir Topham Hatt's new top-hat with his steam and jarring his coaches so much a brake pipe leaks. He was threatened to be painted blue (which James detests), but later made the line's worst trucks behave after being given a second chance.
James is very proud of his paintwork. He hates pulling trucks, and believes that he should only pull coaches. He thinks himself superior to the others, and can be shallow, boastful and vain, particularly to those who appear old-fashioned, weak, slow, or dirty. This has caused him to have somewhat of a rivalry with Toby. However, on a number of occasions he has found himself in need of help from those he has insulted, and is, in the end, apologetic.
James was the last engine to retain a prejudice against diesels. However, after stalling on a cold day he was rescued by the Works Diesel, and James had to admit that nothing was wrong with diesels. This appears to be one of the few lessons that has stuck.
Learning Curve have been producing the Thomas & Friends Wooden Trains and accessories for a number of years, they are not compatible with Take Along Thomas, Mattel/Fisher Price Take-N-Play Thomas, Tomy Thomas Motor Road and Rail, Trackmaster Thomas, Hornby Thomas, Megabloks Thomas, but are compatible with train sets from Tesco, IKEA, Brio and many other wooden train sets.
The Learning Curve Thomas the Tank Engine range used to come with Character Cards, but this stopped in 2010, the range is most comprehensive out of all the Thomas & Friends Train systems with many destinations from the Island of Sodor and feature many destinations from a lot of the DVD Feature films such as Misty island Rescue, Hero of the Rails, Calling All Engines, Thomas and the Magic Railroad and the 2011 Release Day of the Diesels.
Please have a good look round our store www.buythomasthetankengine.co.uk where you will find one of the largest selection of Thomas & Friends items in the UK, Peep Peep Thomas stock Wooden, Take-N-Play, Take Along, Trackmaster, Hornby, Tomica, Britain’s, Lamaze, we will also be stocking soon Hello Kitty, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Phineas and Ferb, Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly
We will have in stock this summer the new characters from the 2011 Thomas film release "The Day of the Diesels", these new characters will include Belle, Flynn, Dart and Den
