Editing James the Red Engine (section)

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{{Infobox character
| name = James the Red Engine
| franchise = ''[[The Railway Series]]'' and ''[[Thomas & Friends (franchise)|Thomas & Friends]]''
| image = Thomas and Friends James.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = James as seen in [[Thomas & Friends series 8|series 8]]—[[Thomas & Friends series 11|11]]
| first = ''[[List of Railway Series books#Thomas the Tank Engine|Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' (1946)
| creator = [[Wilbert Awdry]]
| designer = [[George Hughes (engineer)|George Hughes]] (in universe)<br />Reginald Payne
| voice = {{collapsible list|title=[[British English|British]]|[[Keith Wickham]] (2009–2017)|[[Rob Rackstraw]] (2017–2021)|Luke Marty (2021–2022)|Tom Dussek (2022–2025)}}
{{collapsible list|title=[[American English|American]]|[[Kerry Shale]] (2009–2015)|Rob Rackstraw (2015–2021)|Luke Marty (2021–2025)}}
{{collapsible list|title=Other|[[Susan Roman]] (''[[Thomas and the Magic Railroad]]'')|[[Michael Angelis]] (original [[workprint]])}}
| lbl1 = Number
| data1 = NWR 5
| species = [[Steam locomotive]]
| gender = Male
| nationality = {{hlist|English|Sudric}}
}}
'''James the Red Engine''' is a [[fiction]]al character from ''[[the Railway Series]]'' children's books created by [[Wilbert Awdry]] and the television adaptation ''[[Thomas & Friends]]''. He is an [[anthropomorphic]] [[tender locomotive]], and is the number 5 engine on the [[North Western Railway (fictional)|North Western Railway]], [[the Fat Controller]]'s railway on the [[Sodor (fictional island)|Island of Sodor]].

James debuted in the 1946 book ''Thomas the Tank Engine''. Two books in the series, ''James the Red Engine'' and ''James and the Diesel Engines'', are dedicated to James.