| The Engine Afraid of Rain | |
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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Nonsense Nonsense! (1902) |
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Created by |
Walter Jerrold & Charles Robinson |
Origin[]
The Engine Afraid of Rain is a locomotive character in an English nursery rhyme who was scared into a tunnel and never came out after a few drops of rain fell on the engine.
The Rhyme[]
- Once an engine when fixed to a train
- Was alarmed at a few drops of rain,
- So went "puff" from its funnel
- Then fled to a tunnel,
- And would not come out again.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Nonsense Nonsense! (1902)
Notes[]
- The rhyme would later inspire the story and the episode adaptation, The Sad Story of Henry from The Three Railway Engines.