#TRAINZ SODOR ISLAND 3D MAP SERIES#

#TRAINZ SODOR ISLAND 3D MAP SERIES#

By the time they had finished, they knew more about Sodor than would ever be used in The Railway Series stories. Some place names were Sudric equivalents or near-equivalents of those in the real world (for instance, Skarloey was a rough Sudric equivalent of the Welsh Talyllyn: logh (Manx) = llyn (Welsh) = 'lake'). Elsbridge was named after Wilbert's parish of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. A large island would meet the criteria he required, giving him the isolation from changes to the British railway system while giving him somewhere that people could easily imagine.Д«etween them, Awdry and his younger brother George worked out Sodor's history, geography, industry and language ('Sudric'). Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar island of Sodor (the name derives from Old Norse SuГ°reyjar, 'southern isles', a term that referred to the Hebrides and islands along the west coast of Scotland). Inspiration came on a visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man in 1950. Awdry required a setting for his books that would be within Great Britain, but would be sufficiently isolated from the rest of British Railways to allow him to do as he wished with the location. The need for consistency in the locations for The Railway Series necessitated the creation of a suitable location.

Trainz sodor island 3d map