Stanley

Stanley is a white shunting engine

Biography
Stanley was brought to Sodor to work on a project, and became very popular, which made Thomas jealous and later, made him feel neglected. Thomas felt that Stanley was newer, bigger, and stronger than he - and would take over his place on the railway. When Thomas later went missing, Stanley was the first to realise Thomas' feelings. He searched for Thomas until he finally managed to find him in a ditch and rescue him. Then, both became friends and with a combined effort made it back to Great Waterton in time to prepare for the opening celebrations. Stanley later helped with the rebuilding of the Sodor River Bridge. Stanley now is primarilly a shunting engine.

Stanley was amongst the engines at Knapford Station who were worried about Percy's whereabouts when Percy was spending his time with the Diesels at the Dieselworks. Later on in the winter, he suffered from a faulty firebox and Thomas came to his aid once again. When Samson backed onto Gordon's Express by accident when he was told to take stone to the Blue Mountain Quarry, Stanley tried to inform Samson that he had made a mistake, but the cabless tank engine refused to listen to Stanley, while proving not to make another mistake. Stanley was also one of the engines told about the rumour of Toby being scrapped. He later helped with the construction of the Harwick Branch Line. He also shunted James's coaches one day, who was being his usual self; vain and overconfident, and when James was asked to take waste trucks to the Waste Dump, he questioned Stanley why he could not pull nice shiny coaches, in which Stanley tells James that Edward took them instead. Stanley was also one of the many engines who wanted to go to The Great Railway Show. Like most engines, however, he was not chosen and was left on Sodor to do the other engines' jobs.

Personality
Stanley is the "boy-next-door" to Thomas, he is a little bit bigger, a little bit newer, and a little bit stronger than Thomas, which, at first, made Thomas jealous when all focus seemed to be on this shiny, new arrival. However, even Thomas was soon won over by Stanley's positive attitude, charm, and friendliness and came to see why he was so popular and well-liked among the other engines. As such, Thomas and Stanley are now firm friends.

Despite this popularity, Stanley has fallen into the background, but despite this, he is incredibly compassionate and empathic, there is nothing he would not do for another engine. And if he could not do it, he would find someone who could. He is sleek, smart, stylish, eager, courteous and cheery as well.

Trivia
He originally had Wilbert´s Roll in The Steam Friendly Diesels