| Thomas the Tank Engine, anthropomorphic locomotive engine who rides the rails of the fictional island of Sodor. |
| And, come to think of it, what is Sodor if not a mysterious island of uncertain origin? |
| Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar Island of Sodor. |
| The television version of Sodor appears quite larger and has more industry. |
| By the time they had finished, they knew more about Sodor than would ever be used in the Railway Series stories. |
| The latter was completed about 1610 by a Welshman, John Phillips, bishop of Sodor and Man, but it remained unpublished until it was printed in 1893 94 side by side with the 1765 version made by the Manx clergy. |
