Based out of the town of fylesyear (the one I drew onto the map at the top) on the far north side of the island of sodor the fylesyear line, also known as the FYL is a smaller railway founded by sir Suconsby Wrenn and being finished in 1927 with a mainline to vicarstown which servers a coal mine used to fuel it's steam engines (the yellow line), a secondary line to tidmouth using some trackage from the NWR which serves the harbour at the railway's end of line (the green line) there is also a line going Brendam through using an extension onto the NWRs peel godred electrified route a section of the NWR main line and using the branch line to Brendam (the purple and middle blue line) all lines having connections to the NWR (the railway I didn't draw on) and later being operated under said railway by 1984 the FYL has 11 engines 7 steam and 4 diesel
Sodor industrial; sodor industrial was an engine builder based at the town of crovens gate they sold made to order steam engines of premade for many railways mostly for the global south though they would also sell to many parts of England on occasion they started in 1897 and was bought out by the NWR in 1969
1 engine number one is known as noramby or noram this is a small off the peg 0-4-0 shunter design by sodor industrial or S.I. Built in 1922 it was purchased second hand for a cheap price to helped construct the FYL mainline in from August 1925 to September 1927 after which it would be stationed at fylesyear yard until a crash into the railways number 3 in 1937 where it was sat aside due to lack of funds for a proper overhaul at the time after buying numbers four and five it would be displaced by the railways number 4 until 1939 when sufficient funds were found as well as number 4 being greatly needed for other services in due to the ramping up of the Second World War and so number 1 would afterwards, go on to be the railway's general shunter until the arrival of number 7 where it was once again stationed at Fylesyear yard a this configuration of futures lasts into he modern day
Number 2; the second engine on the railway was bought in 1927 from sodor industrial it was a 4-4-2 Atlantic the engine was sold cheaply as the engine's power was not nearly enough for what was expected of it, as such when this was discovered it was put on goods and light passenger duties until 1956 where it was modified with a new boiler (of which is a slightly modified version of to one in use by number 5), double chimney, super heater, smoke deflectors and mechanical stoker where afterwards it was found to be a much stronger and reliable engine and is now the railways secondary express engine taking night trains to London until 1997. today it, number 3 and number 5 still work the railway's fylesyear to vicarstown mainline
Number 3 ; FYL engine number three known as "Wrenn" after sir Suconsby Wrenn, the founder of the railway. Number 3 is a Sodor industrial 2-6-0 built from 1923 to 1940 to the same design of James on the NWR, built in 1925 as the railway's goods and secondary passenger engine it arrived september of 1925 where it along side noram, built the railway however when it was found number 2 was unsuitable for express work number 3 took on these services until 1936 when number 5 was introduced. after being crashing into by number 1 in 1937 it was overhauled and modified with a new boiler the design of which being similar to number 5's it also received a super heater and mechanical stoker which Improved the engine's performance and would lead to number 2 eventually getting similar improvements. today number 2,3 and 5 still work on the fylesyear to vicarstown mainline
Number 5 ;after the disappointment that was number 2 and the stress placed upon number 3 taking both the main express trains and large goods train another engine was needed meanwhile, a Pakistani railway had scaled back an order for sodor industrials' 2-6-4 export locomotives in 1935 as such there was an unwanted large mixed traffic express engine near the FYL's location as such sodor industrial sold the engine to the FYL for a nocked down price in 1936 the engine preformed well and so it would be given the number 5 the engine would take over express services in the same year as its arrival which left more slack for number 3 to fulfill more goods services on the fylesyear to vicarstown mainline where it and number 2 and number 5 still work into the current day
Number 4; FYL number five is an 0-6-2 medium sized mixed traffic saddle tank engine designed by sodor industrial it was introduced in 1929 as to fill the gap left by number 3 on lighter services after the disappointment that was number 2, number four mainly pulled the railways' fylesyear to tidmouth services until 1937 where it would replace number 1 until 1939 when it was needed for the the aforementioned fylesyear to tidmouth services as such number 1 was overhauled and replaced number 4 on shunting services at fylesyear and so, along with the later assistance of number 6 would continue to work on the fylesyear to tidmouth line until this day
Number 6; during the Second World War a long distance heavy goods engine was needed as number 2,3 and 5 were not properly sufficing for the needed services as such in 1942 an LMS 8f 2-8-0 was loaned to the railway to which was a great assistance to the railway however, after the war the engine was so worn the LMS did not see it worth taking it back as such it would be sold to the FYL in 1946 for a nominal sum it was then rebuilt at S.I. with the same modifications that the other tender engines received after which, it would be placed on fylesyear to tidmouth services with number 4 and, frequently the help of number 8 where as such number 6 took over goods services completely one this part of the railway where number 4 would exclusively take passenger services on the line, the two engines would continue to work the line into the modern era.
Number 8; by 1966 the FYL's services were under excessive load due the novelty of a still mostly steam hauled railway and the railway would need new motive power that could handle all types of trains by this time the sodor industrial had all but stopped making new steam engines due to lack of demand and the prospect of a NWR buyout in 1967 though, they did still offer maintaice and overhauling services but still, the railway would have to look elsewhere the by this time the British railways (the big 4 British railways put together) was withdrawing many steam locomotives with much life still in them one of which being number 60831 an EX LNER v2 a mixed traffic 2-6-2 steam engine still in serviceable condition the FYL bought the engine from British rail they also bought a spare boiler and cylinder block from another v2 the engine would be given a giesel ejector however this was found to have little effect and so the engine was fitted with a double chimney and German style smoke deflectors from a withdrawn A3 the engine would not be designated to any specific line as it was was transferred to any line that needed an extra engine though it was seen around the line to tidmouth regularly it, along side D11
Number 7; by 1954 the railway would need a new shunter and as such it was found to be more cost efficient to buy a diesel engine for shunting duties as such an engine of the same design of the BR class 08 was bought and and delivered in 1955 numbers 7D denoting it being a diesel engine it would take over shunting for the railway in tidmouth and where the railways number 1 would finally be permanently stationed at fylesyear, this arrangement has lasted into the modern day
Number 9 and 10; in 1977 the fylesyear line was in the prosses of building an extension to the town of peel godred from the central town for the railway of Fylesyear and would use the line, with an agreement with the NWR to use the neighboring railways line as a through route to Brendam and the harbor there unto however, the railway would need larger non-steam traction as the NWR's peel godred route was electrified which would hinder the clearance for the steam engines this was around the time that many first generation British railways diesels were being withdrawn and so the railway would buy quite literally, while the engines were being taken to the scrap yard a British railway class 46 and class 40 these engines were numbered D9 and D10 respectively the engines were overhauled by the Former S.I. site of which was bought by the NWR in 1969 after the ferm's many flops of trying to market diesel engines for export the ferm, located at croven's gate would completely rebuild the engines as to extend the engines lifespans D9 and D10 would handle all FYL services along with D11 on the peelgodred joint line and services to Brendam and would from, December of 1997 man the railways BI weekly sleeper trains to London after number 2 was taken from the service due to excessive wear and old age
Number 11 ; in June of 1976 the FYL was planning to build a branch line to the town of peel godred, however they could not remove any engine from current service to help build the line becuase of an increase of demand for service due to tourism so, the railway needed a new small engine that would be comfortable traveling at slow speeds and so, the railway bought a withdrawn British rail class 08 shunter from the southern region of BR in July of 1976 the engine was given the number D11 and would be modified with larger back windows for aided viability when reversing, in February of 1978 the line was finished along side modifications to the NWR owned section of the line as to accommodate the route to Brendam after the line was finished the engine would man the railway's yard at cronk where the railway's normal goods trains would stop. Number D11 still works in said yard into the modern day.
