In Fiction
- In the Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry, the character Duck the Great Western Engine is based on a 5700 Class pannier tank.
- No. 5775 is featured in the film The Railway Children in a brown livery, with the initials of the fictitious Great Northern and Southern Railway on the tank sides.
- No. 6412 starred in the 1970s children's TV series The Flockton Flyer.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)