Flying Kipper
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The Flying Kipper is a fictional goods train from the Children's Book collection, The Railway Series, by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry, and the spin-off television show Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
Origins
At Knapford in the TV Series or Tidmouth in the books, the fictional Island of Sodor has its largest harbour, where most of the island's seabound traffic comes and goes. Among this traffic are fishing trawlers which unload their fish on a quay. Some of it is sold in local shops. Most of it, however, is loaded in a train which delivers this fish to other stations on Sodor, and onwards to mainland Britain. The railwaymen have named this train The Flying Kipper.
The Flying Kipper is first seen in the book Henry the Green Engine, where Henry has been assigned to pull it. At first, everything goes well, but due to wintry conditions, Henry is inadvertently diverted into a siding and crashes into another goods train. This event, however, has a silver lining, in allowing Henry to be repaired and improved at Crewe, becoming a much better engine. Last seen, the Flying Kipper is still pulled by Henry, although James the Red Engine once pulled it for him while he was being repaired.
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