| Despite huge success, he continues to drag coaches of coal across Sodor Isle. |
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| And, come to think of it, what is Sodor if not a mysterious island of uncertain origin? |
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| Thomas the Tank Engine, anthropomorphic locomotive engine who rides the rails of the fictional island of Sodor. |
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| The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor. |
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| This volume expanded the fictional world of Sodor up to the present day and dealt with many of the factual aspects of the series. |
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| On a visit to the Isle of Man, he discovered that the bishop there is known as the Bishop of Sodor and Man. |
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| The latter was completed about 1610 by a Welshman, John Phillips, bishop of Sodor and Man, but it remained unpublished until it was printed in 1893 94 side by side with the 1765 version made by the Manx clergy. |
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| These books follow the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. |
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| Sodor and Man were returned to York during the fourteenth century, to compensate for the loss of Whithorn to the Scottish Church. |
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| Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar Island of Sodor. |
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| By the time they had finished, they knew more about Sodor than would ever be used in the Railway Series stories. |
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| A lot of the place names on Sodor are clearly based on Manx forms, but often the nouns are inverted to match English word order. |
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| The capital and administrative centre of Sodor is the city of Suddery, however, Tidmouth has grown to be the largest town on the island. |
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| In the film, one could only travel to Sodor via The Magic Railroad or gold dust. |
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| One of the more famous settlements on Sodor is Ffarquhar, the terminus of Thomas the Tank Engine's Branch Line. |
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| The television version of Sodor appears quite larger and has more industry. |
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| Sodor was a magical land that was supported by a magical railway line called The Magic Railroad. |
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| Children will be able to help Thomas's driver and the Fat Controller give Thomas a drink of his special Culdee Fell water, brought specially from Sodor for him to drink. |
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| The Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe may not sit in the House of Lords regardless of seniority as their dioceses lie outside the United Kingdom. |
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| In fiction, the Island of Sodor, a fictional island from Wilbert Awdry's The Railway Series and the Thomas and Friends children's TV show, is located in the Irish Sea. |
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| The Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe are not eligible to sit in the House of Lords as their dioceses lie outside the United Kingdom. |
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| The Isle of Man has its own diocese of Sodor and Man, and the Bishop of Sodor and Man is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Tynwald on the island. |
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| The books and television series are all set on the fictional Island of Sodor, which is located in the position of Walney, though significantly larger. |
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| The place names on Sodor are mostly a mixture of Manx and Norse. |
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| All of the other settlements on the island are described in Locations on the Island of Sodor, while the six railway lines from The Railway Series are described below. |
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| Two other railways on Sodor are directly based on real railways. |
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| Some other lines on Sodor are heavily inspired by real lines. |
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| The Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose diocese lies outside of the United Kingdom, is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. |
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| Arran was also part of the medieval Bishopric of Sodor and Man. |
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