Sodor = Tracy Island?

A post by curiouswombat about a bizarre road accident on the Isle of Man reminds me that my 2-year-old grand nephew was watching some Thomas The Tank Engine episodes yesterday, and every time I looked up something seemed to be falling off a truck or a bridge, trains were running away, biplanes were crashing, bouulders were running down the railway lines, etc. etc., to an extent that I began to think that the island of Sodor must be in the Thunderbirds universe... You sure as hell wouldn't get me using public transport there...