Ashima

Ashima is a brightly-painted Indian tank engine, who works on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway. She was one out of many engines to participate in the Great Railway Show, and competed in the Shunting Challenge, and of whom Thomas is very close friends with.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact she is based on an oil-burning tank engine (and has an oil tank on top of her boiler), Ashima still uses coal to make steam.
 * Ashima has been partially modified to work on British rail: she has been given buffers and chain couplers, and her cow catcher was reduced in size, and lowered, to accommodate these.
 * The Cuban dock workers' models from Blue Mountain Mystery were reused as Ashima's crew.