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Godred was based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway's L.A.D.A.S., as they both suffered a similar fate.

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  • Godred was based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway's L.A.D.A.S., as they both suffered a similar fate.
  • Godred, named after Godred MacHarold, a famed king of Sodor, was a mountain engine who worked on the Culdee Fell Railway.
  • Godred was built at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1900. He was arrogant from the start, and believed that if he should have any trouble then his automatic brakes would save him. Just over a month after the railway's official opening on June the 4th (Whit Monday), he came off the rails at Devil's Back and fell down the ravine. He was found the next day, but was beyond repair and scrapped.
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  • Godred was built at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1900. He was arrogant from the start, and believed that if he should have any trouble then his automatic brakes would save him. Just over a month after the railway's official opening on June the 4th (Whit Monday), he came off the rails at Devil's Back and fell down the ravine. He was found the next day, but was beyond repair and scrapped. Paradoxically, when Culdee tells his story to Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel and Duncan, he reveals this event was made up. However, in both "The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways" and "Sodor: Reading Between the Lines", it is revealed he did indeed fall off the mountain. The four remaining engines (Ernest, Wilfred, Culdee and Shane Dooiney) carried on in service without him through careful maintenance and being sent back in rotation to Winterthur for overhaul until the arrival of three more powerful engines (Patrick, Alaric and Eric) in 1962. His remains were cannibalised to help keep the other original four going throughout this period.
  • Godred was based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway's L.A.D.A.S., as they both suffered a similar fate.
  • Godred, named after Godred MacHarold, a famed king of Sodor, was a mountain engine who worked on the Culdee Fell Railway.
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