In the book, Stanley came from the United States. Fergus Duncan in 1969 and taken by road and rail to Crovan's Gate, where he was restored and returned to service in 1984. He worked alongside Sir Handel and Peter Sam (then known as Falcon and Stuart respectively) until 1947, at which time the line closed and Duke was sheeted and sheltered in Arlesdale Sheds. In the book, Duke is described as being built in 1879 for the opening of the Mid Sodor Railway. Four engines are mentioned in the books, and these are described below. Over its near-sixty-year existence, the MSR utilised a number of engines, most of which remain unrecorded. The railway has so far only appeared in the book Duke the Lost Engine, but has been mentioned in others. The MSR was responsible for the creation of the Culdee Fell Railway although there was no connecting station for the two lines. Although the MSR's station was on the edge of the town it had once planned to build one in the town centre.
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The mountain section to Peel Godred was built to give the people of Peel a rail connection after plans for the Sodor & Mainland Railway to extend here were cancelled. The railway was at first a goods-only line for mineral traffic from the lead mines in the valley but with the arrival of tourists to Sodor it started carrying passengers, with connections at Arlesburgh for the ferries to the Isle of Man. The main sheds and works for the railway were at Arlesdale station. At Arlesburgh it met a branch of the standard gauge North Western or Fat Controller's Railway The railway ran from the coast at Arlesburgh along the Arlesdale valley then through the Sudrian mountains to King 'Orry's Bridge near the town of Peel Godred. Part of its route is now occupied by the Arlesdale Railway.
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The railway was closed in 1947, but three of its engines survive on the Skarloey Railway.
#SODOR ISLAND 3D NARROW GAUGE TRACK SERIES#
The Mid Sodor Railway is a fictional narrow gauge railway on the Island of Sodor in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev.W.Awdry and Christopher Awdry.