#Douglas Talyllyn Railway

[naurasweetarudesu]

Douglas (The Talyllyn Railway one, not the standard gauge one): "Hey, Duncan? Can I ask why'd you like to smacks my head without reason sometimes?"

Duncan: "It's the Cain Instincts took over."

Douglas: "THE WHAT??? Wait, I'm the Abel in this situation???" 😰

[steam-beasts]

What a lovely brotherly bond!

Duncan loves his brother! :)

Just reposting these images cuz I'm still working on some stuff.

[thebunnylord]

Duncan is always excited when his brother, Douglas, comes to Sodor for the Awdry extravaganza. They always have a fun time together and it’s always happy time for them.

Unfortunately the bigger engines can’t say the same. Especially after getting flipped off at every chance Duncan and Douglas can get.

[brick-boats]

“His funnel was bent. Bits of fencing, the bush, and a broken window frame festooned his front, which was badly twisted… He looked comic!”

My entry for the #JustLikeAwdry diorama challenge from Thomas Comes To Breakfast!

[visionarylocomotiveworks]

Season 6; Episode 26 - Faulty Whistles

I wanted to show my love for S6 for the collab this year, and this being one of my favorite Duncan episodes.

Also, a little wink-wink to the "headmaster". IYKYK.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

[pinkyberet]

Douglander (Midlander x Douglas)

There’s Rusty x Duncan Going On. Soooo….

Talyllyn Ruscan :3 💚🩵

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Talyllyn Railway No. 6 Douglas on display in the Engine House, 03/08/2024.

[gordontheengineswifenirmal]

Hint: all three of these lads are NOT innocent.

[skarloeyspa]

floral train!!!!

[griffmeistergeneral]

Duncan!

[brain-dead-killjoy]

I would add Idris (who is a line press machine (at least that's what I think she is)) but Tumblr only allows 10 options and I'm pretty sure nobody outside of select Talyllyn members know that they named a line press machine "Idris". The Talyllyn Railway names practically everything by the way, we're slightly mad (I say that as a life member of the railway).

BTW when this poll ends I will be in Wales, probably pestering some Talyllyn members who are close in age to me or being asked to take photos of some random tourists or running around Nant Gwernol with a child who pestered me while on the ride up in the coaches (like last year).

[naurasweetarudesu]

Doodle of AU stuff that i decided to post here too

A rare occasions where Peter Sam snaps idk

"You're not even close to your own brother. How would you know how it feels when someone you think of as a brother turns into a stranger in front of your very own eyes?"

All of this because Duncan couldn't keep his mouth shut by saying:

"But isn't this better? I mean, he's become more thoughtful and hardworking. Maybe there really is a good side to this accident after all."

Oh, Duncan... if only you know what actually happened....

Duncan after this:

[steam-beasts]

I Love you, I Hate you

Tw; heavily implied verbal abuse

Neither Duncan or Douglas had the best start in their lives. One moment, they're in the workshop, the next; a military railway.

Douglas was the more optimistic of the two, albeit the fact he tended to be horribly anxious and a little bit jumpy. The reason for this was due to the time he spent on the Calshot RAF railway in Southampton, ranging from having to listen to gunshots from nearby practices, always getting yelled at by the sergeants left right and centre. He could never prepare for them, and it never helped that he was nearly completely blind due to not having a face like Duncan. Before he was sent to the railway, he was a confident, outgoing and chatty engine. Unlike his brother though, he's too nice for his own good and restrained on being mean. His kindness continued as he lived on the Talyllyn railway, but after his fateful visit to Sodor, he isn't as nice as before. Specifically towards Duncan.

Duncan, when he was first build, used to be easily annoyed, but didn't have such a bad temper and unfiltered rudeness until he began working on the railway. He was once fairly happy, cheeky, boastful and a little prideful. He was and still is not afraid to be blunt, he's a believer of plain speaking after all! He's seen dead people during his time on the railway and it sickened him greatly. We obviously know what happened when he went to the Skarloey Railway, so I'll say no more. But back on Calshot, he was so much worse than how he acts nowadays.

For their relationship, they were a bit like best friends...at first. Douglas absolutely adored Duncan, having a tendency to sometimes be immediately attached to anyone if he knew them long enough. Even though they were twins, Douglas looked up to Duncan as a "cool older brother" type engine and always chatted away to him, asking how he was, what he thought of other engines at the railway, etc. Duncan used to enjoy Douglas's presence as well, being a little bit more laid-back in conversations with him, and even helped him memorise his paths. Douglas still needed help getting around, even though he had a pinhole of vision.

Things started changing when the next month started. Duncan became more short-tempered, rowdy and rude. Douglas at first passed it off as him being stressed from the people, sounds and sights which he couldn't blame him for as he too was stressed and strained from the work and noises...and painful sensations.

The next month came, and Duncan became a bit distant, not even saying hello back to him. All Douglas got as a response was grunts of acknowledgement or telling him to fuck off or no acknowledgement at all, just silence.

Douglas assumed it was because of the stress again and tried to remain happy, albeit becoming more paranoid. Every night at the sheds, he'd still ask the same questions and Duncan would snap at him more and more, asking "How th' hell can ye be happy?! Are ye stupid?". After that, he'd be hit with a bunch of swears and insults. Douglas knew Duncan was simply angry, so he never actually meant those...right? He never apologized after, though. But that’s ok! Siblings argue all the time.

The words cut deep, but Douglas still tried to remain positive despite the agonizingly harsh noises and screams and insults that got tossed at him during work. It was even more hurtful when Duncan started hating him. He always kept being nice to Duncan, assuring his twin that he still loves him. But he couldn’t understand why Duncan was always cruel towards him. It never helped either that Douglas was the more discriminated one because of the lack of face. He was just an emotionless, dumb machine.

Despite everything during his time there, Douglas always strained himself to be positive. He did try being more mean one time, giving Duncan a taste of his own medicine. But it backfired awfully. Duncan's (back then) explosive temper resulted in him gaining a habit of often saying sorry when he talks.

After moving to Tywyn, Douglas struggled to accept that his brother hated him, repeatedly reminding himself that working on their old industrial railway was very stressful, even for himself. But alas, he had to eventually. It wasn't easy. It was after a small telepathic talk with Midlander that he had to accept the facts. Midlander is a good friend. Douglas slowly began gaining a little bit of resentment towards Duncan after the talk.

Learning that his brother became famous because of Awdry’s books felt like salt was getting rubbed into a wound that never properly healed, because that was EXACTLY what happened to him! It wasn’t fair! The way everyone loved him and only ever saw him when they looked at Douglas...he felt completely in . No one truly liked him and the others for the engines they are.

Hearing the Willie Rushton narration over Duncan’s stories, he noticed that Duncan seemed to have softened up a bit and is just grumpy nowadays, but he was still the same. The faceless twin still saw no end to Duncan’s negativity. There was no true happiness. Just hatred.

It’s been decades since they spoke. Nowadays, Duncan himself had begun looking back on how he treated Douglas. He could never understand how his brother was so happy, but his driver is suspecting that his positivity is a simple mask. Duncan hadn't thought once about his twin or his old railway in years, now he's wondering...

Was he truly wrong for how he behaved back then?

[houseboatisland]

how about duncan would love some headcanons

I'm not trying to justify Duncan's worst moments, but it has to be said that the transition he made from being an industrial engine to one working on a public railway must have been hard. Engine behaviorists will attest that such a role swap hardly ever goes without a hitch. (Passenger tanks going into industry, by contrast, are more often disasters than not.) So yes, he definitely went too far holding his passengers hostage on a bridge, but I still feel for him somewhat. Adjusting to alien concepts like decorum around passengers, timetables, and the myriad of coach etiquette do's and don'ts would have been a headspin for even the most polite workhorse industrial, and it's a shame Duncan wasn't able to get help without his infamous outbursts. But then again, maybe the factory he came from was so tough-as-nails that brute force was legitimately all he knew at the time?

Duncan's TV portrayal, (the model series one anyhow,) isn't out of scale: He's actually built with a much heftier, heartier boiler than that on the Talyllyn Railway's Douglas. And yes, Duncan is yellow rather than red.

Speaking of Douglas, he and Duncan are actually polar opposites in terms of personality. Duncan is brash, stubborn, and has a hair-trigger temper, whereas Douglas is almost pitifully meek, hardly speaks above a whisper, and says "sorry" in every other sentence. Duncan can't stand such sniveling in anybody, least of all engines he's meant to be showcased with. That happened only once. The only reason Douglas didn't cry is because he was afraid Duncan would lace into him even more than he had.

Dolgoch instantaneously dislikes Duncan. She, (Dolgoch "the Old Lady" is female, alert the press,) doesn't hold with shirkers or anyone rocking the ship on the Talyllyn, period. When she found out how much grief he had given Douglas, Dolgoch gave Duncan a tongue-lashing of biblical proportions. He didn't speak for two days. And as you can imagine, it's not true he visited the Talyllyn multiple times; that was the only time he's been there, and he's not willing to risk life and frames by returning.

The very utterance of Dolgoch's name will bring Duncan's boiler pressure down 30psi.

Duncan has always been yellow with black stripes, and he's always been called Duncan. When he first arrived, his name was stenciled on his boiler. Attempts to rename him like Sir Handel and Peter Sam had been failed MISERABLY, and some nameplates were hurriedly cast.

[baldwin-10-12-d]

Question; how do you think the Talyllyn engines feel about their siblings getting books detailing about the exact same events they went through? (for example; Dolgoch had to run the railway on her own while Talyllyn was out of commission, like how Rheneas did in Gallant Old engine).

As the Thomas theorist said, isn't it ironic how the SKR and the TR have the EXACT same engine roster and went through the same events they did?

Hmm well

For Tally she really wished she and skarloey had separate railway events

For Dolly she feels a bit angry because she had to have her brother parallel her

For Sir Haydn she personally doesn't care anymore after Sir Handel yelled at her

For Edward Thomas she just feels meh about it

For Midlander they enjoy having her sibling match her in some ways

For Douglas she just feels like an imposter

[pinkyberet]

The Narrow Gauge Mane 6 But It’s Their Talyllyn Counterparts

Talyllyn Fletcher, Dolgoch Fletcher, Sir Haydn Hughes, Edward Thomas Kerr, Midlander Hornsby & Douglas Barclay