Nia

Nia is a Kenyan engine.

Backstory
Nia was built in Vulcan Foundry in 1926. Nia's driver didn't accept Nia, causing Nia to derail, and he wanted Nia to be scrapped. Her driver's strikes were received for causing trouble. Nia's fireman was killed by Nia's driver for trust. Ignore was all Nia knew, and thus she was left without friends, driver or fireman.

Nia was discovered in 1928 by a new driver and a new fireman. The workmen put Nia back on the rails. Nia's new driver was very kind. Nia was sent to another railway for trust. Nia was rude and menancing, and didn't like engines. Nia was so rude in Africa, so she was shipped to Sodor and sold to the Aluminium works as punishment.

Nia's meanness continued when new engines were sold to the Aluminium works. The only engine she loved was Freddie, a former Mid Sodor Railway engine. Freddie liked Nia, but he didn't accept her meanness. Nia was very reckless that she pulled many gunpowder trucks too fast and derailed in 1939. Nia's second fireman was mad at the damage, so he didn't want Nia anymore and returned to Africa.

In 1940, after Nia's second driver had found that Nia's wheels and siderods were damaged, he sent Nia to Crovan's Gate Works. Nia was regauged into a standard gauge engine months later and she was sent to work at the Great Waterton timber company., but she was still mean, and pulled the trucks backwards and fordwards repetitively. Nia's firebox catched fire weeks after, and the fire killed her second driver.

After Nia's second driver was killed, she was sent to the sheds by Billy as so as to not get destroyed. In 1975, Nia was preserved by the Vicarstown Railway Musum as her second driver was killed a long time ago. Nia learned her lesson after this, and she is now very kind.