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  1. Bill and Ben are yellow saddle tank engine twins belonging to the Sodor China Clay Company. They work in the china clay works and at Brendam Docks, where they shunt trucks . Did you know?

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    Bill and Ben made their first appearances listening to Percyrecount the time he got caught in a flood helping Thomas, before being shooed off by Henry, as they were in a shed specifically for the Fat Controller's engines. One day, Bill and Ben were sent to work in the yard. They got to use the turntable as a reward for their hard work, but they wer...

    Bill and Ben are Sodor's most mischievous saddle tank engine twins, who have great fun in teasing and playing jokes on other engines of the railway. They enjoy attention and love taking visitors and being photographed. They tend to work together, like most twins, but even this youthful pair can have themselves being put into argumentative feuds and...

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    Bill and Ben are based on the Bagnall 0-4-0STs "Alfred" and "Judy" of Par, Cornwall, who are both preserved and in working order at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. According to the foreword of Thomas and the Twins, Alfred and Judyare both Bill and Ben's twins. Alfred was once repainted yellow for a Days Out with Thomasevent, to resemble Bill. In the television series, Bill and Ben are twice the size of their basis'; Alfred and Judy. This was so their eye mechanisms and motors could be accommo...

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    Bill and Ben are painted dandelion with red lining. Both have brass nameplates with yellow writing, the initials "SCC" painted on the sides in yellow and "BRENDAM BAY" on the front of their saddle tanks. In Buffer Bother, Ben has silver buffers, but they were repainted black afterwards. From the seventeenth series onwards, the twins’ wheels were painted red instead of their original black. In the episode Bill or Ben?from the same series, the twins were painted dark blue with dark blue wheels,...

    In some international dubs, Bill and Ben's names/genders were changed:
    A behind the scenes picture of Bill's model reveals that he and Ben were to have numbers on their smokeboxes above their faces, as they did in the Railway Series.
    Bill and Ben are the first yellow engines introduced in the series.
    Sir Topham Hatt's ownership of Bill and Ben changes in the television series, as the second series episode, Percy Takes the Plunge refers to them as not being Sir Topham Hatt's engines, while the t...
  2. Bill and Ben are tank engine twins who work for the Sodor China Clay Company. One day, Bill and Ben returned from shunting some trucks to find that some other trucks they had shunted earlier were missing. Their drivers, after examining a puddle of oil on the ground, concluded a diesel was...

  3. Bill and Ben are a pair of mischievous tank engine twins in The Railway Series, and its TV series adaptation, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. They live at the Sodor China Clay Company, and work at the mines and pits, delivering trucks full of China Clay to Brendam Docks, where the clay is...

  4. Thomas & Friends - Bill and Ben the Tank Engine Twins (HD) Bill and Ben are tank engine twins belonging to the Sodor China Clay Company. They are young and cheeky and love playing...

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  7. Bill and Ben are Sodor's mischievous saddle tank engine twins, who have great fun in teasing the other engines of the railway. Each has four wheels, a tiny chimney and dome, and a small squat cab. They often work in the China Clay pits and quarries.

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