Puddingham

Puddingham is a 4-4-2T locomotive in Taleland Railway and Taleland Railway 2. She is a 4-4-2 tank engine. She was the second character created for Taleland Railway. She can be found in Jasper Station alongside Astler and Lizzie.

 Appearance 

Puddingham wears a traditional LMS maroon coat of paint with gold and black boiler bands. Her buffer beams are a standard red colour. Generation 1 Puddingham was a modified Generation 1 Astler with modified parts. It had a dip on the front buffer beam and a dip on the back buffer beam. It also had a splasher on the first set of wheels for no discernible reason. Tanks were put on her sides and a bunker was added on the back with a trailing wheel to support it. Generation 2 Puddingham had the exact same design choices except the splashers were moved backwards, making them even more redundant. She also featured a copper top funnel. Generation 3 Puddingham had new designs drawn and designed by Rustickly (Butter Wizard) and WH_10 with southernenigne approving the designs. The new design featured an LMS style smokebox door, removed splashers and a longer and taller boiler and smokebox that extended over the dip in the footplate. It also has a bigger safety valve and a brand new dome. The dip on the rear end of the footplate was removed. Pistons were pushed to the back and centered upon the axles. The connecting rod from the crosshead was moved back to drive the second pair of wheels from the front. The tanks were expanded and now goes over the driving wheels. It featured a prominent cab, firebox and coal bunker that shares many similarities with an LMS Fowler Class 3F. The third generation model carries the headcodes for express freight.

 Trivia 


 * Puddingham's name has been constantly butchered by developers due to miscommunication. Because of it, Puddingham's spawn plate during the opening of Taleland Railway 2 was temporarily named "Puddington" until it was corrected by southernenigne.
 * Puddingham headed the inaugural run on the day of the opening of Taleland Railway 1
 * Puddingham is the only other engine other than Lady Anne to have a canonical face.
 * A backstory was written for Puddingham that described Puddingham being involved in an accident due to a stiff brake handle during her trials causing her to be put on sale as she was considered a bad omen. She was bought by the GWR and carried via rail through Paddington Station. Whilst awaiting another engine to take her to TLR, a child walked up to her and left a magnet on her side tank, and gave her hope about her future. However, the child accidentally called her "Puddington" and the name stuck for a few months until Puddingham was rebuilt by the Taleland Railway Company.
 * Canonically, Puddingham's uncanny resemblance to a Great Western Railway prairie tank is said to have been caused by a design choice made by the workshop to incorporate Great Western Railway parts into her LMS design.
 * Realistic joke diagrams for Puddingham were drawn up by WH_10, but are not proportionate nor accurate.
 * Puddingham V3's design was made within a few hours in the Taleland Railway Discord's public voice chat with server members giving suggestions to improve on her design whilst Butter Wizard drew them on paint.net.