Devious Diesel

Devious Diesel (a.k.a Diesel) is a fictional anthropomorphic diesel locomotive and a first villain from The Railway Series by Rev W. Awdry (only known as Diesel), and the television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

Diesel visited on a traik from The Other Railway. A scheming, oily trickseter with a foul temper who likes to cause trouble wherever he goes, he was supposed to help Duck with his shunting, but he spread such mean-spirited rumours about Duck and the other engines that caused the Fat Controller to send him away.

Diesel is based on the 0-6-0 BR Class 08 diesel shunter. He is painted in the all-over plain black livery used by British Railways for shunting engines in the 1950's.

He made a brief return in the one-off story Thomas and the Evil Diesel, in which he showed that perhaps he did have good streak buried somewhere deep inside. A very similar-looking locomotive appeared in one of the illustrations for Thomas and the Great Railway Show.

Diesel in the television series
Diesel was introduced in the second series of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, and in recent seasons and other stories has been idntified as part of the DAB-Stacks, the seven villains. In the Japanese version of the TV Series, Diesel is voiced by Daisuke Gori.