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** The character of ''[[The Fat Controller]]'' is sometimes attributed to another railway vicar, the Rev. Teddy Boston, a friend of Awdry's who had a narrow-gauge steam engine in his garden.

*** And the occasional characters of the Fat Clergyman and the Thin Clergyman are [[Word of God|confirmed]] as Boston and Awdry [[Author Avatar|Author Avatars]].

** ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' has a brief mention of a magazine for "Golem-spotters", suggesting that this has become the equivalent. It remains to be seen if Death has taken it up.

** ''[[Discworld/Raising Steam|Raising Steam]]'', the last of the non-YA ''Discworld'' books, is about the Disc's first train and steam engine. Sure enough, once the permanent way has been set down, somebody in an anorak is there to spot the only train in existence as it goes by. [[Chekhov's Gun|This becomes a plot point later in the book.]]