


Gordon was disappointed to discover when he visited London that the station he visited was. Unbeknownst to them, they were all correct, but they did not realize, due to being on their own isolated lines before coming to Sodor, that there were a number of stations in London, and that these were merely three of them. The Big City Engine thought that London was. Thought that London was, as he had once worked there as a. Boasted about going to London, and believed that London was restricted to Kings Cross (served by the ). This is why it escaped the infamous in the 1960s.The NWR and the Other Railway meet at and the fictional is connected to the mainland by a between Barrow and.BR ran an hourly suburban train service from Barrow to Ballahoo and Norramby on Sodor.There have been at times direct services from Tidmouth to or with Other Railway engines taking over at Barrow.The Big City Engine, Gordon and Duck were involved in an argument over the confusion between the mainline stations in.

There have been several visitors from the Other Railway.Although the fictional or Railway was part of the nationalised railway network it kept most of its operating independence from British Railways on the mainland. Many of 's engines came from the Other Railway originally. ( December 2015) In the children's books, by the, The Other Railway refers to (later ), the UK rail organisation that existed from 1948 until 1997.Several of the characters in the books have visited the Other Railway or used it to travel from place to place.
