Scruff

Scruff
Overview
First Appearence	Thomas and Scruff (T&F)
Creator(s)	Sharon Miller
Character Overview
Name(s)	Scruff
Nicknames	Scruffy Scruff
Gender	Male
Country	Island of Sodor
Affilation	Whiff’s Waste Dump
Technical Details
Basis	Sentinel 100 HP BE Type Shunter
Gauge	Standard Gauge
Power type	Steam
Vehicle	Locomotive
Type	Box Shunter
Fuel type	Coal
Configuration	0-4-0VBT
Wheels	4
Top speed	20 mph
Designer(s)	Sentinel Waggon Works
Builder(s)	Sentinel Waggon Works
Date built	1946
Arrived on Sodor	2010
Railway	North Western Railway
Owner(s)	Sir Richard Topham Hatt

Scruff is a small shunter who works along side with Whiff at Whiff's Wast Dump.

Biography

Thomas & Friends

Scruff was brought to Sodor to work at Whiff's Waste Dump. He cannot stand being cleaned and when Thomas once tried to have him cleaned, he fled and hid in a siding until he was coaxed out with the promise of being allowed to shunt rubbish trucks. He once had to go to the Sodor Steamworks to have his "scruncher" mended and later that day, he helped Gordon tidy up the waste dump before the inspector arrived.

Scruff once had to be repainted and he enjoyed his new look so much that he did not want to get dirty. He then went round the Island, looking for a new job, until Gordon reminded him that he was most useful at the rubbish dump with Whiff.

In the eighteenth season, Scruff broke down at Crocks Scrap Yard. So Samson shunted him to the Steamworks. After he was fixed, he overheard the Fat Controller saying Samson had taken his car to the scrapyards and Scruff told the Fat Controller he knew a shortcut. He then made it to the scrapyards just before Reg could grab it.

He and Whiff later helped out with Thomas when he ordered himself to be covered in waste, so the tank engine could play a trick on Diesel. They later attended Sir Robert Norramby's Christmas party.

Scruff, alongside the other engines wanted to participate in the Great Railway Show, though the Fat Controller did not select him.

Personality

Scruff is a grimy little chap, with a lime green boxy shape. He likes to sometimes get dirty during his job. He is more than content with "scrunching" and shunting garbage wagons at Whiff's waste dump and has few other aspirations. He has been known to run in fear and hide away from things that he does not quite understand and can find having all the focus on him a little daunting. It seems, at times, that Scruff would rather be busily working in the background. However, he is cheerful to welcome engines to the waste dump and happy to have others join in with the "scrunching". He is notably, perhaps, one of the few engines on Sodor with little desire to be clean and presentable. Scruff's main motivator is being able to just get stuck in and knuckle down with his jobs.

Technical Details

Basis

Scruff is based on No. 9369 "Musketeer", a Sentinel 100 HP BE Type chain-driven vertical-boiler steam locomotive built in 1946 by Sentinel Waggon Works. "Musketeer" is preserved by the Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust.

Livery

Scruff is painted lime green with dark green stripes, funnel and front. He has brass nameplates on either side of his tanks, although his name is only written on these in merchandise. In the television series, the plates are completely blank.

Appearances

Thomas & Friends

• Season 14 - Thomas and Scruff and O the Indignity
• Season 15 - Kevin the Steamie (cameo)
• Season 16 - Race to the Rescue (cameo), Express Coming Through (cameo), Flash Bang Wallop! (cameo), Thomas and the Rubbish Train (does not speak) and Percy and the Calliope (cameo)
• Season 17 - Scruff's Makeover
• Season 18 - Signals Crossed (cameo), Timothy and the Rainbow Truck (cameo) and Samson Sent for Scrap
• Season 19 - Diesel's Ghostly Christmas
• Season 20 - Sidney Sings (cameo) and Pouty James (cameo)
• Season 22 - The Case of the Puzzling Parts (cameo)

He will appear in the twenty-third season.

Specials

• 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery (cameo)
• 2016 - The Great Race
• 2017 - Journey Beyond Sodor (cameo)

Music Videos

• Season 14 - All You Need
• Season 15 - Hear the Engines Coming
• Season 16 - Go, Go Thomas
• Season 17 - Hey, Hey Thomas! and On a Journey Today
• Tale of the Brave - Let's Be Brave
• Thomas' YouTube World Tour - Never, Never, Never Give Up, Thomas' Anthem and The Whistle Song
• Season 19 - There's Snow Place Like Home and Engine Roll Call
• The Great Race - Will You Won't You
• Journey Beyond Sodor - I Want to Go Home (cameo)

Magazine Stories

• 2011 - O, the Indignity! and Thomas and Scruff

Voice Actors

• Matt Wilkinson (UK; fourteenth season onwards, excluding The Great Race singing voice)
• Kerry Shale (US; fourteenth season onwards - UK; The Great Race singing voice only)
• Jesse Grimm (Germany; fourteenth season onwards)
• Kōtarō Nishiyama (Japan; fourteenth season onwards, excluding The Great Race)
• Nozomu Sasaki (Japan; The Great Race only)
• Carlos Inigo (Latin America; fourteenth - eighteenth season)
• Ernesto Lezama (Latin America; nineteenth season only)
• Christian Greger Strom (Norway; fourteenth - seventeenth season)
• Jaroslaw Domin (Poland; fourteenth season onwards)
• Jorge Teixeira (Spain; fourteenth season onwards)
• Denis Bespalyy (Russia; seventeenth season onwards)
• Kari Tamminen (Finland; fourteenth season onwards)
• Haris Grigoropoulos (Greece)

Trivia

• During his first appearance in Thomas and Scruff, Scruff did not have a rear coupling hook in the fourteenth season, yet he was seen pulling wagons. As of the seventeenth season, he now has a rear coupling hook.
• For some unknown reason, Scruff's nameplates have always been blank in the television series but not on his merchandise.
• In the twentieth season, Scruff gained lamps and brakepipes on his front and rear.
• His side tanks are considerably taller than his basis to accommodate his face.
• Scruff travels far faster in the television series than his basis is capable of.

Quotes

"Lets get scrunching!"

---Scruff's catchphrase

"I'd rather be a really useful engine, than a really shiny engine any day."

---Scruff, Scruff's Makeover, seventeenth season

Merchandise

• Wooden Railway (discontinued)
• TrackMaster
• Take-n-Play (discontinued)
• Mega Bloks (discontinued)
• Capsule Plarail
• Minis
  • Classic Minis
  • Old School Minis
  • DC Super Friends Minis (as The Atom and Armor Batman)
  • Space Minis
  • Neon Glow in the Dark Minis
  • Beach Minis
  • Spring Basket Minis

• Collectible Railway
• Adventures (sold only in Clean-Up Crew 4-Pack; discontinued)