Terence

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Terence
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Terence is a crawler tractor.

Bio

Tank Engine Thomas Again

Thomas insulted Terence for his use of caterpillar tracks, but regretted it after Terence pulled him from a snowdrift.

More About Thomas the Tank Engine

Terence befriended Duck while Thomas was at the Works.

Toby, Trucks and Trouble

Terence did Percy's shunting work at Ffarquhar while Percy was at the harbour.

Thomas and Victoria

Terence was helping build a barn on the day Victoria was sent back to Thomas' Branch Line. After swerving for a boulder by the Hackenbeck tunnel his trailer fell down the cutting and balanced dangerously on a tree.

Basis

Terence is based on a 1934 vintage Caterpillar Model Seventy - the largest, and last, design of petrol-powered tractors in Caterpillar's range.

Livery

Terence is painted orange with grey caterpillars and a black enigne and exhaust pipe.

Appearances

Railway Series

Tank Engine Thomas Again
More About Thomas the Tank Engine (mentioned)
Toby, Trucks and Trouble
Thomas and Victoria

Thomas' Christmas Party

Television series

Season 1 - Thomas, Terence and the Snow, Thomas and Bertie (mentioned), and Thomas' Christmas Party (does not speak)
Season 2 - The Runaway and Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree (cameo)
Season 3 - Henry's Forest, Mavis (cameo), Edward, Trevor and the Really Useful Party, and Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
Season 4 - Four Little Engines (cameo)
Season 5 - James and the Trouble with Trees, Happy Ever After, and Rusty and the Boulder (cameo)
Season 6 - The Fogman (cameo) and Faulty Whistles (does not speak)
Season 7 - Toby's Windmill (does not speak) and Not so Hasty Puddings (does not speak)

Specials:

The Great Discovery (does not speak)

He also made a cameo in the tenth season song H is for Harold.

He was going to appear in Ghost Train, but his scene was cut out for unknown reasons.

Magazine stories

1990 - Trouble in the Tunnel
1995 - Night Lights
2001 - Mister Mighty!
2002 - The Winning Shot (does not speak)
2003 - Slip and Grip!
2005 - Sweet Scent (cameo)
2008 - Funny Faces! (does not speak)
2010 - Farm Fun! (does not speak) and Pulling the Post
2011 - Wet Wait, Market Day (does not speak), and Really Red (does not speak)

Trivia

Terence is drawn with a cab, but without his widow's peak in Thomas' Christmas Party.
Terence's model is currently on display at Drayton Manor. Recently, his plow was spotted to have been broken.
Terence has a detachable plough.
Terence never had any eyebrows in the television series.