Awdry required a setting for his books that would be within Great Britain, but would be sufficiently isolated from the rest of British Railways to allow him to do as he wished with the location.
#SODOR ISLAND 3D 2019 SERIES#
The need for consistency in the locations for The Railway Series necessitated the creation of a suitable location. One of the more famous settlements on Sodor is Ffarquhar, the terminus of Thomas the Tank Engine's Branch Line.Īll of the other settlements on the island are described in Locations on the Island of Sodor, while the six railway lines from The Railway Series are described below. The ancient capital of Sodor is the 'city' of Suddery but Tidmouth has grown to be the largest town on the island. The summit is reached by the Culdee Fell Railway, which is based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales. Its highest mountain is Culdee Fell, which was modelled on Snowdon: the ridge of Devil's Back copies the Clogwyn ridge on Snowdon. It has various small industrial sites, including a prosperous stone quarry served by the island's railway. The island's language is Sudric, though like Manx, this is falling out of use. The place names on Sodor are mostly a mixture of Manx and Norse. Its northeast edge overrides and replaces the real Walney Island. Its northwest coast is separated from the Isle of Man by a sea strait called the Sudrian Sea, four miles (6 km) wide. The island is roughly diamond-shaped, convert|62|mi|km wide east to west and convert|51|mi|km long north to south. Sodor is usually shown as much larger than the Isle of Man. Awdry)" Hence Awdry sited Sodor in the Irish Sea, between the Isle of Man and Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. "Everybody knew that there was an Isle of Man, but we decided to 'discover' "another" island – the Island of Sodor – and so give the poor deprived Bishop the other half of his diocese!" "(Rev. Thus there is no "Island" of Sodor, rather the fictional island takes its name from an archipelago.Īwdry was intrigued to find that although the Bishop had the title "Sodor and Man", he had only Man for his diocese. After the Reformation, the Church of England took the name for itself. The Sudreys became "Sodor", which was fossilised in the name of the Diocese, long after it ceased to have any authority over the Scottish Islands. "Southern Isles" in contradistinction to "Norðreyjar" ("The Nordreys" ), or the " Northern Isles", i. This was because the Isle of Man was part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, which included the Hebrides, known in Old Norse as the "Suðreyjar", (anglicised as "The Sudreys" ) i.e. Publisher =Heinemann | date =1995 | pages =p154 | id =ISBN 9 5 ] The bishop of the island is known as Bishop of "Sodor and Man". Last =Sibley | first =Brian | authorlink =Brian Sibley Awdry, an Anglican clergyman, following a visit to the Isle of Man in 1950. The name and location were chosen by the Rev. Awdry, and later used in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series. Sodor is a fictional island in the Irish Sea used as the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev.
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