Where is the island of sodor located

However, ordinary maps say it goes only to Walney Island. So when you have crossed the bridge, instead of Vickerstown on Walney, you are in "Vicarstown" - gateway to Sodor. But Awdry himself admitted that Sodor was an afterthought.

In , he writes in The Island of Sodor, after his first four Railway Series books had been written, that he was poring over maps to "find a suitable location for the Fat Controller's Railway and map it A preaching engagement on the Isle of Man made him aware that its bishop is officially Bishop of Sodor and Man - Sodor being an old name for the Hebrides whose ecclesiastical link to Man had long lapsed.

So was born the new Sodor, stretching almost from Furness to Man and described with gentle wit and in enormous detail by the Awdrys in their book. But to go there, you need not cross the bridge at Barrow and hope that it will miraculously materialise like a British Atlantis. All over Britain, you find parts of Sodor. The narrow-gauge former slate railway running inland from Tywyn in mid-Wales was the world's first preserved line, its society being formed in WV Awdry was one of its earliest members.

He and his family had a fortnight's holiday in Tywyn and he worked as a guard," says David Mitchell, the line's former managing director. And when he died he left us the contents of his study which we have recreated here. The Talyllyn Railway and its engines are the basis for the Skarloey narrow-gauge railway in WV Awdry's books - the first ever railway in Sodor.

The map illustrates Thomas the Train's world, with characters arrayed in the pictorial border and details of the stories in the reference key. This is apparently the printed version of the map of Sodor, which would go through numerous variations and incarnations of the following decades, most recently revised in Sodor was "discovered" in , when Thomas' branch from Knapford to Ffarquhar was drawn, and the connecting line to Tidmouth.

PR Wickham faithfully built stock for the Rev's model railway and produced other plans and at least one map, such as this of Thomas' branch in Sodor is a fictional island located in the Irish Sea, just off the English mainland near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.

It is the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev. Van Nuys, Cal. A nice example of probably the most famous chartbook for the British Isles, by Greenville Collins, who was a Royal Navy officer and prominent hydrographer during the 17th century.

Camelback Inn At Phoenix, Arizona. Search Terms. Sign In Email. The hubby went out yesterday and got the last one. I think for me it began with the Richard Scarry when I was growing up.

Skip to content As both the mother of a train-obsessed child and a refugee from grad school in history, I was delighted to find a Wikipedia article on the history and geography of the Island of Sodor , home of Thomas the Tank Engine.