Emily

Emily was a A1 class "Terrier" that was owned by the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway (W&S) from 1873 to 1894 and the railway's original No. 5. She was damaged beyond repair in the December 1894 Wellsworth Bank collision and was scrapped shortly after.

Biography
Emily was built at Brighton Works in July 1873 following the twinning of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) as a batch of five A class "Terriers" built for the W&S that year and arrived at Brendam a month later. Her first duties was for suburban passenger work before the beginning of full W&S express services under the D2 class 0-4-2s under construction.

In the 1880s, Emily feared that she was going to be replaced as Oxford began hauling her suburban services while she was undergoing maintenance to her valve gear and the replacement of her old "donkey pumps" for injectors, which she was the first to receive this modification. Following her resolution with the GWR-designed tank engine, the two became very close to each other, which annoyed the others.

On December 20th, 1894, Emily was at Maron station when an express head by a Sodor & Mainland Railway (S&M) duplex had stalled on Wellsworth Bank after passing her earlier. She was the only locomotive available at the time and was called in to back the train but was unaware of it rolling back down. She collided with the rear carriage and thrown to the trackside. She was deemed a write off and was scrapped shortly after Christmas that year, asking for her builders plates to be given to Oxford.

Personality
Emily is normally a kind engine but can be a "grouch" when she's told to assist a rival.

Livery
Emily is painted in the standard Wellsworth & Suddery Railway Maroon livery.

Appearances

 * Rivalry (death)
 * Fast Goods (mentioned)
 * The Waterton Walker (indirectly mentioned)

Basis
Emily is based off the LB&SCR A1, commonly nicknamed "Terriers". They were introduced in 1872 and designed by William Stroudley, who based the design on the "Lochgrom" tanks he designed for the Highland Railway (HR) in 1869. They were designed for suburban trains in London and named after suburbs, most which they never got to visit. Originally, they were fitted with a "donkey pump" which worked off the motion but was later replaced by steam injectors for safety reasons. 50 were built at Brighton Works from 1872 to 1880 and were slowly replaced by more modern Billinton designs and 17 were reboilered to become the A1X class while the others were either sold or scrapped.

Trivia
Emily's attitude of being a grouch when told to do things she doesn't want to do comes from the "grouchy-sounding" voice of someone the writer knew, and named the character after her.

Emily was the first W&S locomotive to be scrapped, being written off because of collision damage.

Emily was very close to Oxford until her scrapping in 1894.

Emily was the first of the W&S A1s retrofitted with injectors to replace her original donkey pumps.

Despite her exact build date being unknown other than his build month, Emily's age can be calculated as follows:


 * In Rivalry (set in 1894) which was also when she was scrapped, Emily was 20-21 years old.