Ivor the Engine
| Ivor | The locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
His fondest dream was to sing with the Grumbley and District Choral Society, a dream that was realised when his whistle was replaced with three pipes from an old calliope.
He became first bass of the choir, as well as providing them with a means of getting from place to place.
He dislikes shunting and timetables.
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| Alice the Elephant | She is normally placid, but does not like taking medicine.
When Ivor met her, she had escaped and was asleep on the track.
Since then they have become friends. She and her elephant friends were able to help Ivor when he got stuck in the snow.
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| Bani Moukerjee | An elephant keeper from India, who works for Charlie Banger's Circus.
He is in charge of the elephants Alice, George, Margaret and Clarence, who all obey him without question.
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| Bluebell the Donkey | A donkey who lives at Mrs Porty's house.
She and Ivor just enjoy sitting around together.
Bluebell is sometimes called upon to provide motive power and also the pulling of Mrs Porty's donkey cart.
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| Dai Station | Station master at Llaniog.
He is a stickler for the regulations of the railway, but sometimes bends the rules to help his friends.
His life is made a little difficult by the fact that Ivor really doesn't care much for regulations at all.
Although he is often gloomy, he is a good person at heart.
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| Edwin Jones the Steam | Edwin Jones is Ivor's driver. He is a cheerful and kind-hearted man who perhaps sympathises more than most railway staff with Ivor's idiosyncrasies.
He is "an ordinary engine driver who is there to cope with whatever needs to be coped with".
When not driving Ivor or helping the engine with his latest flight of fancy, he enjoys fishing and day-dreaming.
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| Evan Evans the Song | The portly choirmaster of the Grumbley and District Choral Society.
Jones the Steam's brother-in-law.
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| Idris the Dragon | A small, red heraldic dragon who also sang in the choir for a time.
He lived with his wife Olwen, and their twins Gaian and Blodwyn in the extinct volcano, Smoke Hill, and was hatched from an egg in Ivor's fire.
As well as singing, he once proved useful by cooking fish and chips for the choir using his fiery breath.
Now lives in a geothermally-heated cave under the ground.
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| Morgan the Roundabout | Mr Morgan is the fairground owner.
He gave Ivor some pipes from the steam organ on his roundabout, so that Ivor could sing in the choir.
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| Mr Dinwiddy | A very odd miner who lives in the hills and digs for gold but as soon as he digs it up, he puts it back again.
He is something of an amateur scientist.
He describes himself as "educated" and knows "something about rock".
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| Mrs Porty | A rich eccentric who enjoys the occasional glass of port and has new hats sent from London every week.
She is also technically the owner of the railway, having bought it when the line was threatened with nationalisation.
She does not bother much with the day-to-day running, and things remained much the same after she bought it.
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| Owen the Signal | Inhabits a signal box near Ivor's shed. |