Where Can I Find Gordon X Henry Fanfiction With Crossover Themes?

Try filtering the 'Gordon x Henry' tag on AO3 by the 'Crossover' category. That's pulled up the most readable ones for me. Also, check the bookmarks of people who favorite those stories—they often have similar tastes and might have collected more obscure links. Sometimes the trail leads to small, independent forums or even Google Docs.

I'm actually surprised there isn't more of this? Given how many kids grew up with 'Thomas & Friends' alongside other franchises, you'd think the crossover scene would be huge. But maybe it's the specific Gordon/Henry dynamic that narrows it. From what I've seen, a lot of fics focus more on the human characters from the live-action films crossing over, not the engines themselves in a romantic or shipping context. When you do find engine-centric crossovers, they're often gen fics or friendship-focused.

My best luck has been looking for art on DeviantArt or Twitter first. Artists will sometimes draw Gordon and Henry in, like, 'Halo' or 'Fantastic Beasts' scenarios, and if you're lucky, they'll have written a companion fic linked in the description. It's a roundabout way to discover stories, but it works. I remember one artist did a whole series of them as dragons in a 'Dragonriders of Pern' style universe; the writing was on their personal blog, not a major archive.

The search feels scattered, which is frustrating if you want a centralized trove. You kind of have to embrace the hunt across multiple smaller sites and social media pockets. I've given up on finding a single 'best' place.

Most of what I've found leans heavily into fantasy or sci-fi crossovers. There's a whole subset that puts Gordon and Henry into 'Star Trek' as sentient ships, which plays with their rivalry in a fun new setting. Archive of Our Own has a few decent ones under the 'Star Trek: The Original Series' crossover tag if you filter by the Thomas characters. Wattpad can have some, but you really have to sift through a lot of... less polished work to find the good stuff. Honestly, I think the crossover appeal for this pairing comes from taking their very established dynamic—the proud express engine and the sensitive mixed-traffic engine—and throwing it into a completely different set of rules. Watching them adapt is the fun part. I tend to avoid the ones that just drop them into another fandom with no changes to their personalities or locomotive forms; those feel lazy.

Gordon and Henry crossing over with other 'Thomas' verses is a surprisingly deep rabbit hole once you start looking. You'd think most of it would be on Archive of Our Own, given how big AO3 is for train fandoms, but a decent chunk still lives on niche forums from the early 2000s. The 'Sodor Railway Series' forum has a whole archive section dedicated to crossovers with stuff like 'The Railway Series' original book canon, or even weirder mashups with 'Tugs'. Those older forums feel like digital archaeology sometimes.

For more modern stuff, AO3 tags are your friend, but you have to get creative. Searching 'Gordon x Henry' alone brings up a lot of standard stuff. Try adding tags like 'Crossover', 'Alternate Universe - Crossover', or even specific fandom names if you have one in mind. I've seen some wild ones crossing them into 'Harry Potter' as Animagus locomotives, or into the world of 'Howl's Moving Castle'. The quality varies wildly, but the sheer inventiveness is half the appeal.

Honestly, Tumblr is another hotspot, but it's more about stumbling across a snippet in someone's tag and then hoping they've posted the full thing somewhere linkable. It's a less organized hunt, but sometimes you find real character-driven gems that way.

If you're willing to step back from pure fanfiction, some of the best crossover-style interactions are in fan-made 'Thomas' episode scripts on sites like Sodor Island Fansites. They'll often have Gordon and Henry interacting with characters from other British kids' shows in a very in-universe way. It scratches a similar itch, even if it's not strictly a prose story.