Duck the Great Western Engine
Duck the Great Western Engine is a character from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. His real name is Montague, but he preferred the name Duck, and now nobody thinks of calling him anything else. He first arrived to help in the Yard after Percy was moved to Thomas' branch line. Despite an incident when a devious engine called Diesel spread lies about him, the Fat Controller realised what a useful engine he had in Duck, and eventually gave him a branch line of his very own. He works on this branch line with fellow Great Western engine Oliver, but sometimes helps on other lines. He makes friends easily, and the Fat Controller says that he makes everything run like clockwork. "There are two ways of doing things," Duck says, "the Great Western Way or the wrong way." But don't ask the other engines what they think of this! Duck is a 57xx pannier tank of the Great Western Railway, and he still carries their colours. These engines were designed to shunt and to work branch lines, and many survived right up until the end of steam on British Railways. Several are preserved on steam railways up and down the United Kingdom.
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