Minor Human Characters in the Television Series

This list is for human characters who only appear in the television series, listed in chronological order. For characters that first or only appear in the Railway Series see: Minor Human Characters in the Railway Series. For characters that appear in either the annual stories or the magazine stories see: Minor Human Characters in the Annual Stories or Minor Human Characters in the Magazine Stories, respectively.

The Storyteller
TheStoryteller.png had to show her a special part of the line to give her inspiration for a story. Thomas, however, was delayed helping James, Emily and Percy, but luckily the storyteller knew what to do: she made a story about Thomas. She appears to be good friends with Lady Hatt.

Gallery Story
ThomasandtheEmergencyCable2.png|One day, Annie and Clarabel ThomasandtheEmergencyCable5.png|are watching the passengers ThomasandtheEmergencyCable8.png|getting on and off the train at Knapford station. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable10.png|They see a woman with a very big hat, ThomasandtheEmergencyCable12.png|an old man being helped into a carriage and a man they have seen before. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable14.png|The man in questions travels up and down the branch all day, looking through binoculars. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable17.png|When Thomas and his carriages arrive at Dryaw, ThomasandtheEmergencyCable18.png|the man gets off and starts looking through his binoculars. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable19.png|The coaches are confused by his actions ThomasandtheEmergencyCable26.png|and Thomas says he might be a station inspector, but the coaches are sure that is not right; ThomasandtheEmergencyCable27.png|the man spends a lot of time examining trees. Thomas jokes that the man may be a tree inspector. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable28.png|Later on, Thomas arrives back at Dryaw to pick up the passengers. Unsurprisingly, the man with the binoculars is waiting. Thomas decides to ask the man what sort of inspector he is. The man explains that he is not an inspector, but a bird watcher who is looking for a very rare bird. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable29.png|As Thomas puffs on his way, ThomasandtheEmergencyCable31.png|he suddenly gets a shock when somebody on the train pulls the emergency cable inside Annie. Thinking there is an emergency, ThomasandtheEmergencyCable32.png|the guard applies the coaches' brakes. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable35.png|It is not long before Thomas grinds to a halt ThomasandtheEmergencyCable39.png|and the quard goes to see what the matter is. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable40.png|Inside Annie, the quard sees the bird watcher with his hand on one of the emergency cords. The man sheepishly explains that he thought he had heard the very rare bird and, ThomasandtheEmergencyCable41.png|in his state of excitement, pulled the emergency cord so he could get look at it. The guard sternly informs the man that spotting a bird does not constitute an emergency on a railway. ThomasandtheEmergencyCable42.png|