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Duke lived and worked on the Mid Sodor Railway with the engines Stuart and Falcon (later Peter Sam and Sir Handel respectively). He was the oldest engine on the line, and liked everything to be "just so". Whenever a young engine did something of which he disapproved, he would always say, "That would never suit His Grace." Falcon and Stuart thought he was a fusspot and a fuddy-duddy, and gave him the nickname of "Granpuff". The Mid Sodor Railway is a fictional narrow gauge railway on the Island of Sodor in The Railway Series books of Rev. ... Peter Sam is a fictional locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. ... Sir Handel is a fictional locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. ...

Once he managed to show Stuart up by playing a trick on him. He was rescued by the young engine when he was ill, but managed to trick the passengers into thinking that Stuart was the one who had broken down. On another occasion, he saved Falcon from a terrible accident when double-heading a train with him. Falcon came off the line on a steep mountainside, and only Duke's holding on prevented him from falling.

The biggest adventure yet came when his line was closed. Falcon and Stuart were sold, but nobody wanted the old-fashioned Duke. He was locked up and forgotten about. After many years, he was found by the Small Controller, the Thin Clergyman and the Fat Clergyman. He was then moved to the Skarloey Railway, where he now resides. Map of the Skarloey Railway On the fictional Island of Sodor in The Railway Series by Rev. ...

The story of Duke was based upon a true story about an engine abandoned in the Brazilian rain forest. Duke himself is based around the engine Prince, a tender engine on the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog, North Wales. Both Duke and another engine called Bertram (from the television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) are based around Prince. Double fairlie Merddyn Emrys with train Double Fairlie Earl of Merionedd at Tanybwlch At Blaenau Ffestiniog Minffordd Station Historic coaches, including 1897-built ex-Lynton and Barnstaple Railway no 14 (centre) at Tanybwlch. ... Porthmadog, (Pronounced Port Madock), known locally as Port, is a small coastal town located in Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, traditionally part of Caernarfonshire. ... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ... Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a British childrens television series which was first broadcast in 1984. ...

Duke, as seen in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

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References

• Awdry, Wilbert Vere. Duke the Lost Engine, (London: Kaye & Ward, 1970) ISBN 0718208404