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yzaicreates · 11 months

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Boy oh boy this was surprisingly longer than I expected. They talk a lot to really get to the truth about things. Like, who is Ivor the Engine (a cool train from my childhood)

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#sonic destruction #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #shadow the hedgehog #Sonic Animatic #sonic animation #animatic #art #knuckles the echidna #ivor the engine #snapcube #clown house #clown depot #redbuddi #artists on tumblr

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kidlit-queen-competition · 1 year

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Train fact: those funny numbers I keep using!

if you've been paying attention to my image descriptions, you've probably noticed that I use sequences of numbers. 4-4-0, 4-6-2, 4-8-8-4, 0-4-0T.

This is a system called Whyte notation, which is used to categorise steam locomotives. it describes the number of leading/pilot wheels, driving wheels, and trailing wheels that a locomotive has. for tank engines, the T is added to the end of the wheel arrangement. Since this is a fictional train blog, I'll use fictional examples.

This is Gordon, a 4-6-2. He has four leading wheels, six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. He also has a tender, but the wheels on that don't count. it's technically just a specialized kind of car, used for storing coal and water.

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This is Ivor, a 0-4-0T. He has no leading wheels, no trailing wheels, and four driving wheels. Because he is a tank engine, he has no tender. Instead, he carries his water in square tanks either side of his boiler, and his coal in a bunker on the back of his cab.

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Driving wheels, like all of Ivor's, are directly powered by an engine's pistons. Leading and trailing wheels are unpowered- they help a big, long locomotive navigate curves or imperfect track, kind of like the stabilisers on a child's bicycle. They also help support the ends of the boiler- imagine if Gordon only had his 6 middle wheels. He'd be like one of those drinking birds.

#gordon ttte #ivor the engine #mod note #train facts!

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normalcartoonic · 4 months

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Happy Holidays 2023 Part 1

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dowsingfordivinity · 1 year

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Oliver Postgate autobiography

Currently reading Seeing Things by Oliver Postgate. The most gripping autobiography I have ever read. It’s my second time reading it and I’d forgotten how gripping it is. (more…) “”

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#autobiography #Bagpuss #Bloomsbury Set #books #ConscientiousObjectors #Dartington #Ivor the Engine #NogginTheNog #Oliver Postgate #Pogles Wood #reviews #Seeing Things #spiritual experiences #spirituality #The Clangers

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beycrafter · 1 year

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Keep your Dragons warm

#Dragons #Ivor the engine #Idris the dragon

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biggsodorcitystories · 1 year

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IVOR THE ENGINE!

It's my Mum's birthday today!

So, I was inspired to draw her favourite sentient engine, who is not an Awdry character, actually aired on UK television in 1959 - a full 25 years before Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends debut in 1984.

Meet Ivor the engine - a 0-4-0 tank engine - who works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited, in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" with his driver, Jones the Steam.

While he never enjoyed the mass media success of his younger Sudrian counterpart, Ivor still has his small but devoted fanbase in the UK and deserves a little more love outside of it.

Unlike the Sudrian engines, Ivor:

Can swim, and has actually done so at the beach

Sings in a human choir

Enjoys making tea from his boiler

Has a dragon friend, Idris

So, I drew a humanised Ivor in the style of the humans in his show, along with Idris the Dragon.

Ivor the Engine and Idris are the creative property of Smallfilms and Oliver Postgate

#biggsodorcitystories #bscs art #bscs rambling #ivor the engine #humanised #welsh

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on-wednesdays-we-eat-the-rich · 9 months

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look I made a meme

#the magnus archives #jonmartin #jmart #ivor the engine #this is referring to the two guys not the train

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agustinserrano62 · 9 months

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Diesel and Ivor (2015)

#ttte #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #ivor the engine

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jasonsutekh · 2 years

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Ivor the Engine (1959-64, 76-7)

An engine and its driver have adventures with their friends by keeping a small Welsh town running.

As a children’s television show this one is calming and has little pressure on the narrative despite the troubles the characters have each episode. The narrator has a soft voice but also there are several amusing voices which makes them more compelling and notably the title character can’t talk but his driver, who really is the protagonist is likeable and a good example to the viewers.

Money is made an issue in several of the stories which is bizarre since there’s a very profitable gold mine in the town that doesn’t seem to be using it for anything. As with many old series there are some unfortunate racial stereotypes but with the slight redeeming quality that they are at least sympathetic characters who are treated as valued members of the community without having to be more extraordinary than the others.

The stories link lightly and have several kinds of arcs but the information isn’t often so vital that each installment wouldn’t work just as well on its own or together with one or two others. The messages are largely those of kindness and helping the community in which favours are done happily for free and leisure is regarded as just as important as work.

Only certain characters in the series are aware that Ivor is sentient and others learn it and are surprised so it’s odd that the town gets so little tourism. The series was originally made in black and white then remade in colour later but the two versions are identical, although it does work better in colour, especially when the dragons are introduced.

6/10 -Just a cut above average-

#Series #Review #Ivor the Engine #1959-64 #1976-7 #Kid's Show #Children's Show #Fantasy #Dragons #TV #TV Series #JasonSutekh #Cartoon #Animated

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ebenelephant · 1 month

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ivor the engine is such a weird programme because ostensibly it's a kids show about a lovely little welsh man and his best friend, the train engine, as they go about their day, except that the fourth episode introduces the fact that one of the secondary characters wholeheartedly believes in aliens and in the fifth episode the cast meets a dragon. the little welsh man and the train engine are also very good friends with a donkey named bluebell. everyone in this village is weirdly chill about the sentient train and the dragon, and no one seems to mind that a train participates in the choir competition (because ivor sings bass in the local choral choir, don't you know) (ivor cannot actually speak) but yet it is still made clear that sentient vehicles are Strange because in the episode with the dragon, ivor gaslights the woman from the antiquarian society into thinking that the little welsh man has fully lost his mind by simply refusing to blow his whistle in response to anything he says.

after those two strange episodes, everything returns to sweet little railway antics, and you could be forgiven for forgetting about idris the dragon completely - not that anyone ever does. a few episodes later, the main conflict revolves around the fact that the railway may or may not be nationalised. the episodes are 5-10 minutes long

#no one is doing it like them #right up there with the magic roundabout #i highly recommend it #ivor the engine #kids tv #children's tv #classic tv #recommendation #mine

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boardgoats · 2 years

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31st May 2022

While they were waiting for their dinner to arrive, Blue and Pink squeezed in yet another in their on-going head-to-head series of Abandon All Artichokes matches. The idea of the game is that players start with a deck of ten artichoke cards from which they draw a hand of five cards. Then, on their turn, they take one card from the face up market, play as many cards as they can, before…

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#Abandon All Artichokes #Die Wandelnden Türme #Ivor the Engine #Kingdomino #Kingdomino: Age of Giants #Splendor #Ticket to Ride Demo #Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912 #Ticket to Ride: Europe #Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion

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mayrine · 10 months

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guys i think i figure it out

#the new memebers??????????????????#Magnus the Rogue #qsmp #qsmp meme #qsmp members #qsmp new member #qsmp member #qsmp new members #Soren the Architect #Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer #Gabriel the Warrior #Ivor #minecraft story mode #theory time

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kidlit-queen-competition · 1 year

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Poll: Ivor The Engine vs the Deep Sea Metro from splatoon 2

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#ivor the engine #splatoon 2 #splatoon 2 octo expansion #deepsea metro #polls #fictional train fight round one #fictional train fight polls

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adventuringalchemy · 7 months

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tag dump.

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continentalblue · 1 year

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I have a question for you. Could you name all the characters that you love/simp for from MCSM? - 📄 anon

Alright so this isn't an exhaustive list and I'm bound to be forgetting somebody but here we go:

Romantic loves

Ellegaard

Olivia

Petra

Platonic loves/characters I really like

Ivor

Magnus

Jesse

Lukas

Jack (I want him to adopt me)

Nurm (I also want him to adopt me)

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the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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Just realised that there was a heck of a lot of Yorkshire propaganda in the children’s tv shows I was exposed to early in life and this may have shaped who I am as a person

#There was also some Welsh stuff but not as much #Cumbria as well probably though I don't think that three year old me could have identified Cumberland or Westmorland as a place #The Yorkshire propaganda was so strong that until I was a bit older probably most of the North of England was 'Yorkshire' to me #By contrast there was very little Scottish stuff until Balamory came out but I was already of a pretty advanced age #And I was also able to read books bby that time where Scotland featured more heavily #But my earliest experiences- Teletubbies aside- must have been shaped by two lands of grey stone cottages and dykes and rolling hills #Scotland is similar to these places but slightly different and of course just that bit bigger so has a more internal variety #Add to that the fact that in my experience the average Central Belt Scot spends a lot of time in either Yorkshire or Lancashire on holiday #-mostly Blackpool or Scarborough- and the impression is solidified #It's probably a good thing nonetheless though #I mean I don't keep up with small children's tv shows now (obviously I have no toddlers)#But even when my younger brothers were that age I remember less northern stuff and a lot more southern English stuff #Admittedly I also had some videos from slightly earlier (hence Ivor the Engine was one of the Welsh ones even though it wasn't on tv)#I mean I suppose I had old videos like Mr Benn and the Herbs too which were loosely 'southern' but they didn't have the same impact #But yeah #Apparently my outlook on life is very much a product of some great northern English propaganda phase in the late 20th century #With a slice of Wales alongsid eit #Anyway I won't go on much longer otherwise I'll end up on a rant about how children's tv shows have degenerated #It's all characters called the Fimbledethumps or something who talk in southern baby voices like 'Me want a huggy wuggy'#Which I suppose started with stuff like the Teletubbies but that was the only example I remember and even that had some other things #Kids aren't stupid give them a whole universe give them proper characters and proper storylines #Kids need to understand The Concept of Yorkshire from an early age #Or even the possibility that there are strange litter-collecting creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and Uncle Bulgaria reads the Times

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