Peter Sam (No. 4) was known as Stuart when he worked on the Mid Sodor Railway. He is a polite engine, popular with passengers and coaches alike. Even the trucks do not play tricks on him.
He was built in 1922 for the Mid Sodor Railway by Kerr Stuart of Stoke-on-Trent, and was therefore given the name 'Stuart'. Like Sir Handel, he was later sold to the Sodor Aluminium Company and then to the Skarloey Railway. Following a collision with some trucks and an accident in a tunnel, he lost his funnel and was fitted with a Giesl ejector which made steaming far easier.
In the 1990s he was sent to the Talyllyn Railway. As with Sir Handel, this was based upon the Talyllyn Railway creating a "lookalike" engine, in this case by repainting the locomotive Edward Thomas.
He first appeared in Four Little Engines.
Read more about this topic: Major Characters In The Railway Series, Skarloey Railway
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or sam:
“I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 10:34.
Said by Peter at Caesarea; similar wording is found in Romans 2:11: “There is no respect of persons with God.”
“So Sam enters the universe of sleep, a man who seeks to live in such a way as to avoid pain, and succeeds merely in avoiding pleasure. What a dreary compromise is life!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)