North Western Railway

The North Western Railway (abbreviated as NWR) is The Fat Controller's Railway and was first created in 1914 after a government-funded joining of the Island of Sodor's standard gauge railways. The railways involved were the Sodor and Mainland, the Tidmouth, Tidmouth Knapford and Elsbridge Light and Wellsworth and Suddery Railways. In 1948, it became the "North-Westerrn Region" of British Railways, but this term was never used as the railway kept is operating idenpendence. With Privatisation in the early 1990s, it officially became the North Western Railway. The railway's works are at Crovan's Gate. The NWR's headquarters were at first in Vicarstown, but were relocated, along with the main engines sheds, to Tidmouth in 1925.