Editing Ivor the Engine (section)

==Influences and future appearances==
[[File:Ivor the Engine at the Battlefield Line Railway August 2007.jpg|thumb|Ivor at the [[Battlefield Line Railway]] in August 2007.]]
* Postgate and Firmin created a map of their fictional railway which was adhered to rigidly during filming.
* [[The Who]] include a character named 'Ivor The Engine Driver' in their song "[[A Quick One, While He's Away]]", which appears on their 1966 album 'A Quick One'.
* British ska band [[Bad Manners]] also name check Ivor, on their 1980 album ''[[Loonee Tunes!]]'' with a track called "The Undersea Adventures of Ivor the Engine".
* In ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Morph]]'' episode "The Magic Wand", when Gobbledygook the alien is trying to change Chas back into a dog, Ivor, painted in [[navy blue]] with his name "Ivor" in black, makes a cameo appearance.
* In 2007 'All Aboard with Ivor' events were held at various heritage railways around the UK following the modification of a small [[Peckett and Sons|Peckett]] industrial locomotive to resemble Ivor. Railways hosting the event include the [[Battlefield Line Railway]] in Leicestershire, the [[Watercress Line]] in Hampshire and the [[Cholsey and Wallingford Railway]] in Oxfordshire.
* BBC2 Wales revived Ivor for a series of promotional spots advertising their new [[digital television]] channel "[[BBC 2W|2W]]" for Wales. Oliver Postgate and Anthony Jackson provided new dialogue for these spots.
* Some of the artwork from production is on display at the Rupert the Bear Museum, along with several other items from Smallfilm's history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Postgate's genius lives on at museum|url=http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=4324|publisher=Canterbury City Council|access-date=20 October 2010|date=16 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031161016/http://canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=4324|archive-date=31 October 2010}}</ref> The Rupert Bear Museum is now part of the [[Canterbury Heritage Museum]] in Stour Street, Canterbury.
* In April 2011, Smallfilms collaborated with mobile gaming company Dreadnought Design to launch an ''Ivor the Engine'' game under the newly created Smallworlds brand.<ref>{{cite web|title=Children's TV character Ivor the Engine brought back to life in a new mobile phone game|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/2011/april/27/ivor_the_engine_game.aspx|work=Kentish Gazette|date=27 April 2011}}</ref>
* In June 2014, Smallfilms collaborated with board game company Surprised Stare Games to launch an ''Ivor the Engine'' boardgame.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ivor the Engine|url=http://www.surprisedstaregames.co.uk/Ivor/index.htm|publisher=Surprised Stare Games|date=31 May 2014|access-date=16 June 2014|archive-date=1 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701115038/http://surprisedstaregames.co.uk/Ivor/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Gideon Coe]] uses Ivor's Cruising Theme as the musical bed over his last song leading up to midnight on [[BBC 6 Music]] to say nighty night.
* The [[Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway]] hold an annual Ivor the Engine Weekend in August.
* Functional programming language [[Idris (programming language)|Idris]] was named after the dragon in the show.
* In the [[Game Boy Color]] game, Ivor Appears with Jones The Steam. (YEAR: [[2025]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Children's TV character Ivor the Engine brought back to life in a new mobile phone game|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/2011/april/27/ivor_the_engine_game.aspx|work=Kentish Gazette|date=27 April 2011}}</ref>