The Twins of Sodor

... Why do You want to know? Mind your business.

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That's not a Caledonian 812 (or 652, for that matter) - that's a Belgian State Railways Type 30, a near-direct copy of the 812s built in Belgium between 1899 and 1901. They actually built three entire classes of these things, totalling 891 engines, of which 307 were superheated (for comparison, there were only 96 of the 812s, and that's including the 652s). There were so many of them (and other Caledonian-derived designs - the 721 Class were also copied) that the period of Belgian rail history from 1898 to 1910 is literally called the McIntosh Regime, after John McIntosh, CME of the Caledonian.

During the First World War, not only did they see use by the Belgian Army and the British ROD (including in armoured trains!), but the Belgians actually resorted to ramming the German lines with them during the Siege of Antwerp:

Two are actually preserved today, both of the later Type 32 class; one is superheated. Neither are in particularly good condition, unfortunately:

There's actually a tiktok showing this one's in an even worse state now :(

Eberouge Mouse Pad Promoting the PS1 version of the game. 

I learned you two lost a sibling named Grand Parade in a tragic accident at Castlecary in December 10, 1937. a year after that, a new number of your class was built with the same name and number as him/her. Have any of you heard about that? I'm sorry for asking and I'm sorry for your loss.

(To the admin: If you choose to know about the Castlecary accident and the Grand Parade engines, You can find a page on wikipedia about it. Sorry if I upset you for talking about a tragic accident.)

GORDON: I am- was- unaware of this until this question. After I was sent to Sodor I basically and semi-unintentionally cut the rest of my family out of my life. I didn’t hear from them, they didn’t hear from me. Until a certain green menace started popping up in the news, that was. I can’t say I have that many feelings regarding Grand Parade and what happened, but it is a shame…

SCOTSMAN: I was aware of the accident, and while we weren’t close per se… I can’t say I don’t mourn him on the occasion. It was a horrible accident that really shouldn’t have happened. As for the new Grand Parade… I’d rather not dive deep into that.