North Western Railway

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The North-Western Railway is the largest company on the Island of Sodor. It is owned by Sir Bertram Hatt!

History
It started off as the Knapford and Elsbridge railway, owned by Sir Topham Hatt, the first "Fatt Controller". He created many verticle boiler engines, in 1922, all of them were scrapped, except for Glynn, who escaped at the last minute and hid in some bushes. In 1936, Sir Topham Hatt passed away, therefore, in 1937, Sir Charles Hatt took over and bought, Edward, Henry, Gordon, Eagle, Neil, Ethan (98462) and Simon (87546). Everything ran smoothly until the rather eventful year of 1945, the end of the Second world war. Edward began being used less, but after helping Gordon up a hill he was put back in regular service. Henry then saved his passengers by hiding in a tunnel when a tree fell in front of the line. This was used in the Thin Clergyman's book, the original rhyme went like this: "Once an engine attached to a train, heard the sound of lightning and rain, a tree fell in front of the tunnel, he went in and squeaked through its funnel, and waited until it was safe again", however in the Thin Clergyman's book, he was portrayed differently, to replace Glynn, the NWR purchased an engine named Thomas in 1946, followed by James the same year, and despite a strike later in the History, the NWR has been rather uneventful ever since!