Fun Facts About Turboe!
• She's originally from the east end of London and has a thick Cockney accent. However, after the end of WW2, she was purchased by a railway company in Lomo (a fictional country in my AU) and has stayed there ever since, occasionally being loaned to the NWR on Sodor to cover for their engines.
• She used to be a Bagnall Bean class, but was extensively rebuilt in the 1940s as the prototype of the Lomonian Railways '80' Class
• She's technically the same age as Edward (Edward was built at some point between 1896-1900, Turboe was originally built around 1898). Unfortunately, although she's just as wise as Edward, she doesn't usually share her wisdom with anyone as nobody ever bothers asking her (Edward is the railway's go-to wisdom and advice giver)
• She has a brakevan called Rudolph. He's from Yorkshire and is called Rudolph because has a red lamp for a nose. Rudolph is the polar opposite of Turboe (He's chipper, lively and always has something to chat about)
• She's basically a grumpy middle aged woman lol
• She has anger management issues (She was once loaned to the clay pits and ripped a truck in half after being teased by Bill and Ben)
• Her name is a portmanteau of her real name (Monroe) and the word 'Turbo'. She was nicknamed Turbo as she was (and still is) a very fast shunter, and eventually it gained the 'E' from the end of her real name.
• She never gets enough sleep
• She (and several of her siblings) worked at a coal mine during WW2 (A tragic event happened there that Turboe would rather forget about)
• Turboe once took a wrong turn while returning back to Lomo from Sodor and ended up in Chuggington for a few days.
• She has two different whistles. A Bagnall hooter (from when she was first built) and a Lomonian Railways Goods Hooter (From her rebuild)
• She has an annoying posh sister called Marilyn who works on the opposite side of Lomo. They almost never see eachother, but they're fine with that.
• She sometimes wishes engines could drink coffee so she'd be more awake.
• She doesn't understand why Thomas is so famous. "All 'e ever does is muck about on dat schewpid branchline of 'is" - Turboe, probably
