Dylan

Personality
Though he may be rather shy and awkward, Dylan is also very smart and has a pair of glasses to go with this personality. He works by the seaside, taking passengers from the picturesque coasts and sandy beaches! He also exports trains of fish and stone to the harbour nearby

Basis
Dylan is based on the Furness Railway 21 class (classified "K2" by Bob Rush) or "Larger Seagulls", were built a class of eight 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed by W. F. Pettigrew and built by Sharp, Stewart and Company of Glasgow for the Furness Railway. Six were built in 1896, and two more in 1900. They were built to supersede the 120 class on the heavier and more important trains. They had 6-foot-0-inch (1.829 m) diameter driving wheels with 18-by-24-inch (457 mm × 610 mm) cylinders.

The first six of 1896 were numbered 21, 22, 34, 35, 36 and 37 by the Furness Railway (works numbers were 4174–4179). In 1900, two extra engines were added to the class, Furness Railway numbers 124–125. (works numbers 4651–4652). In 1913, two engines, FR Nos. 34 and 37, were fitted with experimental Phoenix smokebox superheaters, however, these were removed the following year. At some point in time locomotives 21, 22, 34 and 35 were renumbered 44–47 respectively.

By 1923 and the grouping of the FR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, all eight engines were still in service, and received LMS numbers, these being 10135–10142 (in order of their later numbers). They lasted until the late 1920s and early 1930s, performing secondary duties on the home turf, between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven.

The 1997 Poll
In 1997, there were plans for Derby Works to manufacture a single vintage locomotive. There was a poll consisting of four engine bases:


 * Great Northern Railway Stirling Single
 * Furness Railway J1
 * Neilson 0-4-0 box tank
 * Furness Railway K2

The final product was a K2 named Dylan, who was completed on the exact date, September 20th, 2004, and was auctioned and sold to Sir Topham Hatt, who would send Dylan to work on the newly built Harwick Branch, running from Arlesburgh Harbour to Harwick, as well as on the Main Line when necessary. His time on Sodor ended around October 2017, when he was sold to the East Abbeyvale Railway, with one last farewell train.