The Sodor & Mainland Railway town of Ballahoo via Rolf's Castle and Crovan's Gate, but never actually reached the mainland due to lack of money and misfortunes. The plan to extend to the Mainland via Vicarstown failed when the tunnel under construction through the Balahoo Ridge collapsed and plans to build a bridge across the Walney Channel was halted by the Admiralty (who ironically in World War I became the driving force behind the unification of Sodor's railways and completion of the same link to the mainland that they hindered the S&M in building). The S&M did, at one time plan to build a western
The Sodor & Mainland Railway a cutting. It is stated in the Railway Series that the Sodor & Mainland Railway had three engines, only one of which ("Neil") appeared in the books. It is unknown what other engines worked for the railway, but all three engines that were mentioned had been scrapped by the time the railway became defunct due to them being too small and weak for modern day workloads. However, it is widely believed that Neil is now stored as the centrepiece in the Sudrian Museum. According to The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, the Sodor and Mainland Railway owned