Daniel Anderson

DANIEL MONTAGUE ANDERSON is deputy to Sir Topham Archibald Hatt, husband to Helen Miriam Anderson, father of Liam Daniel Anderson and Alice Dexter Maria Anderson and brother to Sean Felix Anderson. He was born on April 2nd of 1968.

Biography
Daniel was born to Richard and Charlotte Anderson in 1968. His parents were rich philanthropists until they died in a train crash 3 months after they had their second son, Sean. He was sent to an orphanage along with his baby brother. When he turned 18, he was released from the orphanage and met Helen Roscoe in 1990. Not long after, the Gulf War broke out and him and his brother enlisted in the armed forces. By Operation Granby in 1991, Daniel was a sergeant and Sean a lance corporal. This is where he met Topham and also where his brother was blown up by a mine, taking off his legs. When his squadron tried to take Baghdad, he was shot many times, obtaining a large scar on his forehead, and the rest of his squadron was wiped out by Iraqi forces. He was sent back to Blighty where he married Helen had his 2 children, Liam and Alice, just after 9/11. In 2007, Topham invited him to the island where he met Thomas and his friends. In 2010, he worked on the LMS for a short while and in 2020 he was hired by Topham as his deputy.

He thought his time as deputy would be uneventful until the attack on the Sodor Steamworks. After hearing of the blowing up of Sir Topham's office, he evacuated his family to the nearby Brendam Station. When the crisis ended, he took a ride on the express and found the corpse of the Flying Scotsman in the river between Barrow and Sodor. After telling Topham what the signal man told him, Topham dashed off and he was left in charge. During this short time in charge, P. T. Boomer attacked the island. After he gave the keys of Harwick Penitentiary to Boomer, he called Topham and greeted him at Brendam Docks. He later found the corpse of Terry Scott impaled on one of the cranes at Brendam just before the Steamworks blew up. While nursing the workers, Topham was attacked by Boomer, unbeknownst to him. He comes back from the works and talks with his daughter. Then, his wife is killed, answering the door to Sean. Afterwards, he manages to stumble upon the late Topham's office where he finds Jones' gun and incapacitates his brother. He walks out to help him up but Sean is shot by Johan. Sean dies in his arms. He helps Richard and Charles Hatt with Getting the diesels to behave and attends Topham's Funeral.

Being the new controller of the SKR, he helps plan Skarloey and Rheneas's 155th Birthday. Unfortunately, Mighty Mac and Freddie have a crash and Daniel gets his old friend, Burnett Stone to help them. Unluckily, the man is dying of cancer and can't get the engines fixed before the birthday ceremony. The Duke Of Sodor, Sir Robert Norramby, is invited to the ceremony and takes Skarloey down the new Lakeside loopline. He began to turn to the drink to cope with Helen's death, much to Liam and Alice's dismay. He finds them after finding out they've left and the cat has ran away and throwing out all the alcohol they have.

Appearances

 * Episode 1: The Beginning
 * Episode 5: The Breakout
 * Episode 7: Spotless Record
 * Episode 8: Tarnished Record
 * Episode 10: Back on Topham
 * S2 E2: One of a Kind
 * S2 E3: Moving On Pt 1 (cameo)
 * S2 E5: Cat and Mouse
 * S2 E6: The Great Train Robbery (cameo)

Trivia

 * The characters were designed before the story and after realising that both of Sean and Daniel have scars, RDS thought they could've both served in a war.