Amber

Amber is a GWR 94xx tank engine who is set to debut in the 1st special.

History
Amber is a 94xx, Numbered 9466, She stood out from her siblings due to her being in a BR black livery while her siblings were all painted in the normal GWR green livery.

She didn't have the greatest life with her siblings or other western engines since they would see her as a fraud of sorts due to her black livery. But during the formation of British Railways that changed, most accepted her after that point, but even still after that her siblings didn't.

She was stationed in Birmingham for her entire career, till the time she was sent to Barry Scrapyards in November of 1960, It is unknown what happened to her afterwards.

Personality
Amber is quite timid and shy at times, and with that also comes her trust issues and emotional breakdowns. But she's balances it out by her wonderful and productive work ethic, cheerful smile and good natured mind. Those around her realize when she truly is having an episode of hers if she becomes quiet.

Amber can be shown at times to not take kindly to those she cares about getting harassed or hurt by others. She usually is the calm, sweet & relaxed type but she will get mad and/or lash out on occasion towards others if they're doing something that upsets her.

She also has been shown to have a meltdown or basically cut herself from everyone around her sometimes if she truly feels hopeless or unwanted in situations or places. But these situations only happen if she truly is upset.

Basis
Amber is based on a Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class, which was a 0-6-0 pannier tank engine, used for shunting and banking duties.

The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways (BR). Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives. Two locomotives survived into preservation, with the oldest of the class, 9400 as part of the National Collection.

The 9400 class was the final development in a long lineage of tank locomotives that can be directly traced to the 645 Class of 1872. Over the decades details altered, the most significant being the adoption of Belpaire fireboxes necessitating pannier tanks.

The 9400 resembled a pannier tank version of the 2251 class, and indeed shared the same boiler and cylinders as the 2251, but was in fact a taper-boilered development of the 8750 subgroup of the 5700 class. The advantage was a useful increase in boiler power, but there was a significant weight penalty that restricted route availability. The 10 GWR-built locomotives had superheaters but the remainder did not.

The first ten 9400s were built by the Great Western and were the last steam engines built by the company. After the nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948, private contractors built another 200 for British Railways.

The 9400s were numbered 9400–9499, 8400–8499 and 3400–3409. BR gave them the power classification 4F.

In retrospect they were a wasteful investment, many having very short lives of less than 10 years as their intended work dried up and diesels took over their remaining duties. 8447 holds the unenviable record of the shortest life of any GWR loco in BR times, beginning in August 1954 and ending just four years and nine months later in May 1959.

Trivia

 * Amber is specifically based off of 9466 which is one of only two 94xx to be preserved; and the only one to be functioning, since 9400 is a static display.
 * Amber is TWR_Ambey's Trainsona.

Appearances

 * Stuffed Up in the Smokebox
 * Ready for Anything
 * Races and Chases
 * Old Reliable