Crovan

Personality
Crovan along with his colleague 98462/Alfred are rude, disrespectful, impatient and egotistical engines. Crovan is shown to take great pride in his express work, and despises pulling trucks. He's also been shown to not listen to others around him.

Basis
Crovan is a 4-6-0 Caledonian Railway 60 class

Six of these engines were built in 1916-17 by William Pickersgill at St. Rollox works, all of them passed into London Midland & Scottish Railway ownership in 1923. A further twenty locomotives of a slightly modified design were built by the LMS under the auspices of George Hughes in the period of 1925–1926.

They were nicknamed "Greybacks" ('greyback' being an old term for louse) either due to their long & grimy boilers or also possibly due to an insult from a former Glasgow and South Western Railway enginemen.

Withdrawals began in 1944 but twenty three passed into British Railways ownership in 1948. The last locomotives were withdrawn from service in 1953, and all were scrapped.

Livery
Crovan is painted in Caledonian Railway blue with red lining. His tender has the initials "C R" standing for Caledonian Railway, these initials are done in yellow with red lining. He also has the number "87546" on the side of his cab in yellow.

Appearances

 * Races and Chases

Trivia

 * Crovan is introduced in the same episode he is killed off in
 * it is unkown if he will return later on, which is unlikely
 * Amber was originally going to name him Norfolk which was meant to be "Not Crovan" but she ultimately when with Crovan.