Toby the Tram Engine is a major character in the Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends franchise. He's a brown steam tram engine who works on the North Western Railway and is the railway's number 7 engine. He used to work on a tramway between Lower Arlesburgh and Arlesdale End, before being bought by Sir Topham Hatt after his line closed down to run the tramroad to Ffarquhar Quarry. His line would later be reopened as part of the North Western Railway, with Toby being reallocated to his old shed. He has a coach named Henrietta.
He is good friends with Thomas, Percy, Daisy, Mavis, and (sometimes) James.
In the English dub of the CGI series, he was voiced by Ben Small, and later Rob Rackstraw in the UK and William Hope in the US. In Thomas and The Magic Railroad, he was voiced by Colm Feore. In Japanese, he was voiced by Yasuhiko Kawazu and Tomohiro Tsuboi.
Overview[]
Toby is old-fashioned, both in looks and outlook. Every engine, no matter how old, wants to be Really Useful and having once nearly been scrapped, Toby is always happy to work. He is not above being temperamental sometimes, but since he works mainly up an outlying quarry line he can work off his moods without causing grief to anyone except his own faithful coach Henrietta.