Here's the Timeline for the main events in Adventures on Rails.
Timeline[]
1806[]
- Plateway from Ward Fell to Balladwail built.
1810[]
- Plateway from Ward Fell to Balladwail is closed and torn up.
1853[]
- The Sodor and Mainland Railway is built.
1864[]
- Skarloey is built.
- Talyllyn is built.
1865[]
- Skarloey arrives on Sodor.
1866[]
- Rheneas is built and arrives on Sodor.
- Dolgoch is built.
- Skarloey has trailing wheels added to improve stability, and has a cab installed.
1870[]
- The Wellsworth-Suddery Railway is opened.
1875[]
- Stepney is built.
1879[]
- Duke is built, and shipped to Sodor.
1880[]
- The Mid Sodor Railway is opened.
- Sir Topham Hatt I is born.
- Boxhill is built.
1883[]
- The Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway is opened.
1896[]
- Godred arrives on Sodor.
- Ernest arrives on Sodor.
- Culdee arrives on Sodor.
- Shane Dooiney arrives on Sodor.
- Edward is built
1897[]
- Construction on the Culdee Fell Railway begins.
- Wilfred arrives on Sodor.
- Percy is built
1899[]
- Donald and Douglas are built
1900[]
- The Culdee Fell Railway is opened.
- Godred is scrapped after a fall.
1901[]
- The Culdee Fell Railway is re-opened after receiving further maintainance following the events of Godred's death.
1903[]
- City of Truro is built
1904[]
- City of Truro becomes the first engine to reach 100mph.
- David is built
1911[]
- The Reverend W. Awdry is born.
- Nix is built as a private owner engine
1912[]
- Stepney is rebuilt.
- James is built
1913[]
- James enters traffic on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1914[]
- The North Western Railway is formed from the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light and the Wellsworth and Suddery railways.
- Thomas is built
- Dodger is built
- Toby is built
- Sir Topham Hatt II is born.
1915[]
- Thomas arrives on Sodor.
- Edward arrives on Sodor
- The Ballahoo tunnel is built.
- The workshops at Crovan's Gate are established
1916[]
- The Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch is built.
- 98462 'Alfred' arrives on Sodor
1917[]
- The Peel Godred electric engines arrive on Sodor.
- Winston the red engine arrives on Sodor
1919[]
Henry is built from stolen plans from Sir Nigel Gresley
1920[]
- James is rebuilt with a pony truck making him a 2-6-0
- Henry arrives on Sodor
- Nix is rebuilt to Reid Class K
1921[]
- Edward is rebuilt.
1922[]
- Gordon is built
- A second bore is built at Ballahoo Tunnels after Henry stops in the original
- Gordon arrives on Sodor
1923[]
- Flying Scotsman is built
- 87546 is replaced by Nix
- James is purchased and Nix is sent back to the LNER
- James arrives on Sodor and is overhauled.
- Thomas is given his branch line.
1924[]
- The Reverend Teddy Boston is born.
1925[]
- Main sheds are relocated to Tidmouth after an LMS agreement to continue trains to Barrow
1929[]
- Duck is built
- Terence arrives on Sodor
- Bertie arrives on Sodor
1934[]
- Henry, Gordon, and James go on strike
- Percy arrives on Sodor
- Restoration of Vicarstown begins
1935 []
- Henry has an accident with the Flying Kipper and is sent to be rebuilt at Crewe as a LMS Black 5
1936[]
- Green Arrow is built.
- Oliver is built
1939[]
- Gordon is rebuilt.
1940[]
- Christopher Awdry is born.
- The Truck is built
1941[]
- Stephen Topham Hatt is born.
1943[]
Bridget Amanda Hatt is born.
1947[]
- The Mid Sodor Railway and the Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branches are closed.
- Duke is sheeted and abandoned in a shed.
- Falcon and Stuart are purchased by the aluminium works at Peel Godred for an expansion project.
- Delete is built
1948[]
- The North Western Railway becomes officially known as the "North Western Region of British Railways".
- Delete is brought to Sodor
- Bill and Ben are built
1950[]
- Rheneas is overhauled.
- Falcon and Stuart are sheeted.
- Dodger is brought to Sodor
1951[]
- Toby's tramway closes down.
- Toby arrives on Sodor.
- Stuart and Falcon are purchased by the Skarloey Railway and renamed "Peter Sam" and "Sir Handel" respectively.
- Skarloey is overhauled
- Cora is purchased for the Skarloey Railway.
- Dodger is overhauled after the avalanche
1952[]
- Trevor is sent to be scrapped.
- Queen Elizabeth II visits Sodor.
- Diesel 10 is built and arrives on Sodor
- Diesel is built
1953[]
- Trevor is purchased by the Vicar.
- Edward is overhauled.
- Diesel 10 is rebuilt
1955[]
- Duck arrives on Sodor.
- Mark V arrives on Sodor.
- Gertrude and Millicent arrive on sodor.
- 'Arry and Bert are built
1956[]
- Sir Topham Hatt I dies.
- Dennis visits Sodor
1957[]
- City of Truro visits Sodor.
- Diesel visits Sodor.
- Ada, Jane and Mabel arrive on sodor.
- David is withdrawn
1958[]
- Rusty arrives on Sodor.
- Duncan arrives on Sodor.
- Skarloey returns from being mended.
- BBC producers make a documentary about the Skarloey Railway.
- David is saved by the Fat Controller from scrap
1959[]
- Donald and Douglas arrive on Sodor.
- The spiteful breakvan is crushed by Douglas.
- David's overhaul begins
- Dennis is scrapped
1960[]
- Daisy is built
1961[]
- Daisy arrives on Sodor.
- The Peel Godred EMUs arrive on Sodor.
- The North Western Railway launches a plan to build a Bulleid Diesel or Project 11001 whilst Diesel revisits Sodor and fails to impress the Fat Controller
1962[]
- Mavis arrives on Sodor.
- Rheneas returns to the Skarloey Railway.
- Lord Harry arrives on Sodor.
- Alaric arrives on Sodor.
- Eric arrives on Sodor.
- David's overhaul is complete
- Paxton is built
1963[]
- Stepney visits Sodor.
- The Diesel visits Sodor
1964[]
- The Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch is re-opened, to be serviced by Duck.
- Culdee returns to the Culdee Fell Railway.
- Lord Harry is renamed "Patrick"
1965[]
- Shane Dooiney returns to the Culdee Fell Railway.
- The one-hundredth anniversary of the Skarloey Railway is celebrated.
- BoCo arrives on Sodor
1966[]
- Bill and Ben arrive on Sodor.
1967[]
- Bert, Mike and Rex arrive on Sodor to service the Arlesdale Railway.
- Reverend W. Awdry and Reverend Teddy Boston visit Sodor.
1968[]
- 7101 arrives on Sodor.
- Flying Scotsman visits Sodor.
- 199 arrives on Sodor along with 7101, and is sent back after he fails on the level crossing.
- 7101 is renamed "Bear" and renumbered D3.
- Oliver, Isabel and Toad are rescued by Douglas and arrive on Sodor.
- Dulcie, Alice and Mirabel are saved from scrap for service with Oliver and Duck.
- S. C. Ruffey is scrapped.
- Steam is abolished from British Railways
- Percy finds Old Slow Coach and saves her
- 'Arry and Bert are purchased to help with the restoration of Vicarstown whilst Diesel redeems himself
1969[]
- Bulgy arrives on Sodor.
- Duke is discovered by Fergus Duncan, the Reverend W. Awdry and the Reverend Teddy Boston.
- The Bulleid Diesel is complete.
- Paxton arrives on Sodor.
1976[]
- Jock is built.
- Bert is rebuilt with a larger boiler.
- Restoration of Vicarstown is complete.
1979[]
- Salty arrives on Sodor.
1980[]
- Thomas is overhauled.
1983[]
- Old Stuck-Up visits Sodor.
- Duke is fully restored.
- Sir Handel visits the Talyllyn Railway.
1984[]
- Annie and Clarabel are rebuilt.
1985[]
- Blister I and Blister II arrive on Sodor.
1986[]
- Sir Handel is rebuilt.
- The Reverend Teddy Boston dies.
- Sigrid of Arlesdale arrives on Sodor.
1987[]
- Mavis is involved in a collision with a lorry.
- Bulstrode is turned into a children's playground on a beach.
1989[]
- A photographer visits the Wellsworth-Brendam Branch Line.
1990[]
- After Privatisation, the name "North Western Railway" becomes official.
- Thomas is invited to a railway show in York.
- Frank is re-engined.
- A photographer visits Sodor and publishes a book in the railway's name.
1991[]
- Russell is built
1993[]
- Henry is overhauled.
- Norman is overhauled
1994[]
- Wilbert visits Sodor.
1995[]
- The Golden Jubilee of the Railway Series is celebrated.
1996[]
- Ivo Hugh is built.
1997[]
- The Reverend W. Awdry dies.
- Sir Topham Hatt II dies.
1999[]
- David is overhaualed
2006[]
- The manager of Anopha Quarry is visited by the police after Henrietta is booked for allowing workmen to ride on her balconies.
- David visits the National Railway Muesum
2007[]
- Victoria is returned to service.
- David returns from the National Railway Muesum
2010[]
- Stepney, Bluebell, and Captain Baxter's overhauls are completed, and the Bluebell Railway celebrates its 50th anniversary.
- The Railway Series celebrates its sixty-fifth anniversary.
- Wilbert is scheduled to be back in service after a major overhaul.
2011[]
- Pip and Emma are purchased by the North Western Railway.
- The North Western Railway celebrates the Reverend W. Awdry's 100th birthday.
2013[]
- Percy is overhauled.
- Dodger is overhauled
2014[]
- Richard Topham Hatt takes control of the North Western Railway.
- Dodger returns from his overhaul to celebrate his 100th birthday with Thomas and Toby.
2015[]
- Ernest returns after a long overhaul.
- The 70th anniversary of the Railway Series is celebrated.