Emily

Emily is a Stirling Single tender engine. She works on the Main Line and once ran the Misty Valley Branch Line. She also has her own set of coaches.

Trivia

 * Although the second female steam engine to ever appear in the television series (the first being Lady), Emily is the first female steam engine to appear and remain on a regular basis.
 * Michael Angelis, Pierce Brosnan, and Teresa Gallagher give Emily a Scottish accent reflecting the origin of her designer.
 * One of Emily's models was on display in Canada at Nitrogen Studios, it is now part of the touring Thomas and Friends: Explore the Rails exhibit.
 * Emily is the first character besides Thomas himself to say his phrase, "Cinders and ashes!", which was done in the thirteenth season episode, Tickled Pink.
 * Some literary articles show her being sisterly mostly to Thomas and James: according to a magazine bio, she has a particular fondness for James and treats him like a little brother. In Railway Rhymes, the author states that Emily and Thomas act like brother and sister.
 * According to Emily's Slide Show, she was built around the same time as Donald and Douglas.
 * Emily's seventh season whistle sound would later be re-used for Peter Sam and Freddie.
 * Her whistle was also used in the Mr. Men Show episode "Parks".
 * Before Big World! Big Adventures!, Emily was the only member of the Steam Team not created by Wilbert Awdry, as well as the only female member up until the debuts of Nia and Rebecca, and the only member who was not introduced in the first season. She is also the only member to not have a number.
 * According to Robert Gauld-Galliers's concept art, Emily was originally going to have handrails on top of her smokebox, three front coupling chains and a gold builder's plate on her wheel arch.
 * Emily was called Emilie in the French dub of the seventh season.