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• Escaped Engines! by edwards-exploit (juniebugs)

  Fandoms: Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, The Railway Series - W. Awdry  

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  27 Jul 2025

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  • Duck & Oliver (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Douglas & Oliver (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Oliver & Toad (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Oliver & Nia (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Nia & Thomas (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Nia & Toad (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Donald & Douglas & Duck & Oliver (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Nia & James (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Oliver (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Nia (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Duck (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Toad (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Donald (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • Douglas (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • James (Thomas the Tank Engine)
  • one scene wonders of thomas and percy and toby and daisy and edward and boco
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Big World Big Adventures: James Remix AU
  • Jealousy
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Trauma Recovery
  • Canon Compliant Train Accidents
  • Misunderstandings
  • workplace drama
  • Post-Big World Big Adventures
  • Mentions of Scrap/Death
  • workplace hostility
  • weather as mood
  • Parallel Traumas
  • survivor's guilt
  • Redemption
  • Past Trauma
  • Character Study
  • Emotional Growth
  • SO IS NO ONE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE NIA OLIVER PARALLELS? NO? JUST ME? OKAY THEN
  • Oliver can be a massive tool and oh boy im swinging him like a hammer
  • Nia deserves so much better so I'm giving her better
  • Oliver gets worse before he gets better
  • Ffarqhuar Branch Line Fun before LITTLE WESTERN WIERDNESS
  • douglas comes in clutch
  • toad is the smartest one here
  • duck is trying so so hard
  • i gave nia a backstory too howsabout that
  • My First Work in This Fandom
  • donald and douglas' scottishism's vary because this is my first work published properly and i am probably going to edit that
  • edboco jumpscare but its okay

  Summary

  It wasn’t that he disliked Nia. Not in any personal way.

  She was… fine. Polite. Competent. Even charming, if you liked engines who smiled a little too easily.

  But there was something off. A feeling. A pattern. A... story that wasn’t being told.

  A tank engine escapes scrap.
  Oliver thinks he’s escaped his problems.
  Nia thinks she’ll escape the questions.

  They collide. Literally. Miserably.

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  English

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