Beauty and the Character (Robbie Shaw's Style)

List of Trains

(For Thomas Gets Tricked and Other Stories, Told By Ringo Starr and George Carlin)

• In Thomas Gets Tricked, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas brings in four coaches, and when Henry departs with two coaches, a boxcar, and a caboose. As Thomas goes into the station, hauling the same four coaches, Henry goes by with the same train he has, with James following, pulling a boxcar, as Thomas shunts a freight car away. Gordon is later seen pulling four coaches on his Wil Nor Wester train, and as Thomas shunts four freight cars and a caboose together, he later gets tricked into being Gordon's back engine on the four coaches of his Wil Nor Wester train, while leaving Knapford station for Wellsworth station.
• In Edward Helps Out, told by George Carlin for the US, Edward puffs through the countryside, hauling three coaches, and later in the yard, is seen shunting five freight cars together, then two milk tankers, and three more freight cars, and as soon as he decides to have a rest, he sees Gordon, hauling eight freight cars and a caboose, before getting stuck on the hill, and leaving Edward to help him up as a back engine up to the top of Gordon's hill, before a tired Edward arrives at Maron station on a siding to have a nice long drink.
• In Come Out, Henry!, told by Ringo Starr in the US, Henry, hauling three coaches into the tunnel, stands by to watch Edward puff past him, hauling three coaches. As James arrives with five coaches and departs, Thomas tries to push Henry's train to try and get Henry out of the tunnel, but fails, and pulls back Henry's coaches, that are uncoupled from him. As Gordon goes by with his four coach Wil Nor Wester train, Edward follows with his same three coaches.
• In Henry to the Rescue, told by Ringo Starr for the US, James enters Knapford station, hauling nine freight cars and a caboose, before Gordon sets off, hauling his Wil Nor Wester Express, hauling four coaches, but later fails to whistle at Henry, then gets uncoupled from the train, and slinks into a siding out of the way. Edward tries to push Gordon's express, but is not strong enough, so Henry comes out of the tunnel after getting up steam, then couples up in front of Gordon's Wil Nor Wester, and as Henry and Edward push and pull the express together, they arrive at Wellsworth station at the end of the line, before helping Gordon back to Tidmouth sheds.
• In A Big Day for Thomas, told by George Carlin for the US, Thomas pulls into the station, hauling Gordon's Wil Nor Wester four coach train, and later finds that Henry is ill one night, when the two engines are all alone. Thomas then decides to pull Henry's train for him for the sake of it, but runs off to find three coaches for Henry, just to pass James going by, hauling three coaches, a boxcar, and a caboose. As Thomas takes Henry's coaches to Knapford station on Platform 1, he wants to run round in front at once, and when Henry is not coming, Thomas is the only engine left. Thomas runs round Henry's coaches, and backs down onto them, ready to start, but later sets off without them, and decides to go back to get coupled up. Once coupled up and ready to depart, Thomas departs for Tidmouth, really hauling Henry's express. As Thomas shunts three coaches for Edward, James arrives at Knapford station on Platform 6, with his three coaches, his boxcar, and his caboose, just to tease Thomas, before Henry, now well, and teasing Thomas, departs with his three coaches. Thomas has already learned not to make the same mistake again.
• In Trouble for Thomas, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas decides to take Edward's ten freight cars and caboose for his father, and when he speeds down Gordon's hill at a dangerous speed after going through Henry's tunnel, he lands in a goods yard's siding, just to let James go by hauling eight freight cars and a caboose. There is an error in the Thomas Gets Tricked 1993 VHS that a man says look out for the train when Thomas climbs up Gordon's hill.
• In Thomas Saves The Day (Season 1), told by George Carlin for the US, Thomas shunts two freight cars in four others, but finds a small coach and a breakdown train, then shunts six freight cars into two others, and sees James running out of control, hauling eleven freight cars and a caboose, and rushing into a field. Thomas later saves James by picking up the breakdown train, showing the freight cars, who is the boss, by pulling them out of the way, until James is finally lifted back on the tracks, unable to move, before Thomas brings him back home. Thomas later gets a branchline and two coaches called Annie and Clarabel, and meets up with his uncle, Henry and his father, Edward, who are double-heading a ten coach working, while Gordon goes by, hauling his four coach Wil Nor Wester train, but never forgets to say poop-poop to Thomas, who whistles peep-peep always is return.
• In James in a Mess, told by George Carlin for the US, Toby and Henrietta arrive at Elsbridge, only to be called by Dirty Objects by James, who arrives, hauling three coaches, and departs for Knapford station to leave his coaches at the end of the line, but shunts four freight cars into four others and a caboose. He sets off, hauling eight freight cars and a caboose, through the countryside, up Gordon's hill, and thunders down toward Maron station where he collides with a load of tar wagons, just to get covered black from smokebox to cab. Percy with three freight cars and a caboose, and Toby with Henrietta, and the Breakdown train, rescue James and put him back on the tracks, before clearing away the unhurt freight cars and taking James back home.
• In Thomas Goes Fishing, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel attempt to go fishing, but ignore advice from James and his three coaches, boxcar, and caboose, and get fish into Thomas's tanks, as everyone has a picnic supper of fish and chips.
• In A Cow on the Line, told by George Carlin for the US, Edward takes out nine cattle cars and a caboose, but on the way when some cows break through the fence and run across the line, Edward loses his three cars and caboose, only to have six, before taking his six cars to a station, and as Edward stands at his station, hauling three coaches, Gordon rushes through, hauling his four coach Wil Nor Wester working, toward a bridge, only to meet a cow named Bluebell, before Henry, with his three coaches, flees from the cow, forcing Percy to collect Edward's three cars and caboose that he lost early, and bring Bluebell's mother.
• In Gordon and the Famous Visitor, narrated by George Carlin for the US, a special visitor named City of Truro, with six chocolate and cream colored coaches, since being restored by 1985 on the Severn Valley Railway, has arrived to be the center of attention to all the engines, who are pleased to see him. As No. 3717 enjoys talking to the other engines at night, he sets off next morning toward the main line. As Duck takes four freight cars to Edward's station, Henry comes through with three coaches, while Edward and Duck talk about the famous record holder, who came through this morning and whistled to Edward so kindly, that he was the finest engine in the world. As Gordon speeds along past Edward and Duck, while hauling his four coaches on the Wil Nor Wester express, he loses his dome, that was blown away by the wind on a viaduct. He is teased by some foolish freight cars and laughed by the other engines with his dome missing.

(For James Learns A Lesson and Other Stories, Told By Ringo Starr)

• In James Learns A Lesson, told by Ringo Starr for the US, James remembers a flashback of his accident when he came off the rails, hauling eleven freight cars and a caboose. Later, Edward pilots James with a ten coach working out of Knapford after James lets off steam to spill a shower of water over Sir Topham Hatt's nice new top hat. James and Edward overrun Dryaw with two coaches beyond the platform and go back to let all the passengers out. Later, Edward and James, with their ten coaches, meet Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel at Elsbridge, before Thomas and his two coaches leave. As Edward and James arrive at Maron station and set off back to Tidmouth, James is worried that he would get painted blue if he couldn't behave. James later takes six coaches out for a run, and tries to go faster, but breaks a hole in one of his coaches, that later gets mended by Jeremiah Jobling, who gives him a bootlace to fix a hole in the brakepipe of James's front coach.
• In Foolish Freight Cars, told by Ringo Starr for the US, James learns his lesson about going too fast and making a hole in one of his coaches, and after Thomas goes by hauling six freight cars, James collects ten freight cars and a caboose, but starts off out of Knapford station, then refuses to give up pulling the freight cars. As James rounds the curve toward Gordon's hill, he starts a long climb up, but accidentally loses four freight cars and a caboose, coupled to his six freight cars that he was hauling. Luckily, when the four cars and caboose stop at the bottom of the hill, James and his six cars rescue them, only to manage up the hill himself, with Edward following with his coaches, only to let James keep his red coat.
• In A Proud Day for James, narrated by Ringo Starr for the US, James shunts four coaches for Gordon's Wil Nor Wester train to take, and after Gordon and the Express leave Knapford station, James pushes some freight cars into their proper sidings, and gets five other coaches for another train at Platform 4. As Gordon gets uncoupled from his Wil Nor Wester train, James takes the Wil Nor Wester past Wellsworth and arrives at Maron station. When James returns with the express, he sees Gordon shunting eight freight cars and a caboose, and challenges to a race against the Wil Nor Wester.
• In Thomas and the Conductor, narrated by Ringo Starr for the US, when Thomas and his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel, puff along his branchline to Elsbridge station after leaving Dryaw station, they pick up Henry's passengers from Henry and his three coaches, who gets delayed, that Thomas sets off without his conductor, and after getting the conductor on board, Thomas arrives at Ffarquhar right on time.
• In Thomas Goes Fishing, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel attempt to go fishing, but ignore advice from James and his three coaches, boxcar, and caboose, and get fish into Thomas's tanks, as everyone has a picnic supper of fish and chips.
• In Terence the Tractor, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel meet Terence the Tractor, who has nice caterpillars, only for Thomas to wear and damage his snowplough, causing him to crash into a snowdrift, and forcing Terence to rescue him.
• In Thomas and Bertie's Great Race, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel are waiting at a junction, only to meet a bus named Bertie, who challenges them to a race. As Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel thunder along Thomas's branchline toward Dryaw to let off passengers, but puff through Arsedale station on Toby's branchline, then arrive at Elsbridge to take on water, just to let James go by hauling nine freight cars and a caboose. Thomas and his two coaches finally beat Bertie winning the race at Ffarquhar station.

(For Tenders and Turntables and Other Stories, Told By George Carlin and Ringo Starr)

• In Tenders and Turntables, told by George Carlin for the US, as Gordon goes by, hauling the Wil Nor Wester express with his four coaches, while James shunts five coaches, when Henry goes by, pulling three coaches. The big stations at both ends of the line each have a turntable, which are made to turn the tender engines around, and since it is too dangerous for tender engines to go fast backward, tank engines like Thomas can go just as well backward as forward. At Elsbridge, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel are talking to Gordon all about a position to keep up, because tender engines are important to know that shunting and fetching coaches is not the proper thing to do. As Gordon and Thomas leave, Gordon's tender upsets the turntable's balance, before he runs tender first, hauling the Wil Nor Wester, with Thomas teasing him, as James goes by with his five coaches. But when he gets turned round, James spins round like a top, and covers his mouth with his buffer as a hand when his face turns red. The engines have decided to go on strike tomorrow.
• In Trouble in the Shed, told by George Carlin for the US, Edward shunts two freight cars into three others, then goes off to find twelve coaches for Gordon, James, and Henry. As Edward shunts two milk wagons next morning, looking unhappy, Gordon clanks by with the Wil Nor Wester express with four coaches. When a new tank engine called Percy arrives and shunts two coaches, Edward follows with three freight cars. As Percy scares Henry away, he takes Annie and Clarabel out for a run, while Edward follows with three coaches, as well as Thomas, who comes along with two coaches, before all three friends arrive at Knapford station in three platforms, just to leave poor Henry, Gordon, and James in their sheds.
• In Percy Runs Away, told by George Carlin for the US, Thomas runs off to collect his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel, and takes them for a run at once. As Edward shunts four freight cars together into two more, Percy shunts a freight car into five others, before Edward sets off with some empty cars for the Quarry. Percy doesn't mind being left alone, only to tease Henry, who goes past him, pulling three coaches. After shunting two freight cars in a siding, Percy gets scared by Gordon pulling his four coaches on the Wil Nor Wester train, but runs away without his driver and fireman, then lands in a big bank of earth on a siding, and gets rescued and pulled out from bank by Gordon. Since Percy and Gordon are good friends, as Percy shunts three coaches, Gordon leaves with his Wil Nor Wester from Knapford station.
• In Thomas Comes To Breakfast, told by George Carlin for the US, Thomas puffs along his branchline with Annie and Clarabel, he arrives at Tidmouth station because he has worked his branchline for many years and knows it very well. In the US, the episode airs before Toby the Tram Engine and Donald and Douglas, meaning that American viewers won't know who Toby, Donald, and Douglas are.
• In Henry's Special Coal, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Henry gets ill, but pulls three coaches into Wellsworth station after pulling out of Knapford, then gets well from some Welsh coal that James brought for him. As Henry slowly sets out of Knapford with his three coaches, he arrives at Elsbridge early, just to met Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel, before setting off at a high speed, just to please Thomas and his coaches.
• In The Flying Kipper, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Henry collects a Flying Kipper freight train with eight vans and a caboose, and sets at 5:00 at the evening, but crashes into a freight train with eleven freight cars and a caboose, pulled by James, who collects a breakdown train to get Henry back on the rails. After being mended and overhauled at Crewe, Henry feels so glad to come that takes three coaches and passes Gordon with six freight cars and a caboose.
• In Toby the Tram Engine, told by George Carlin for the US, Toby is a tram engine, who has cowcatchers and sideplates, not looking like a steam engine at all, but has a coach called Henrietta, who sees better days, despite being full, with nine freight cars rattling behind her. Now there are only three freight cars or four for a fortnight with Sir Topham Hatt and his family riding in Henrietta, the empty cars, and Toby's cab, before Toby's line closes down.

(For Thomas Breaks The Rules and Other Stories, Told By George and Ringo Starr)

• In Thomas Breaks The Rules, the scene opens with Thomas pulling four freight cars and his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel, only to be met by an officer, who has just retired. The new officer insults Thomas about not having wheels covered and a cowcatcher in front. As James with three coaches, a boxcar, and a caboose, pass Thomas with his freight cars and coaches, Thomas gets saved by Sir Topham Hatt, who calls in Toby and his coach called Henrietta to save Thomas from the officer, which means Thomas deserves a special coach named Beatrice, while Toby gets another coach called Victoria.
• In A Cow on the Line, told by George Carlin for the US, Edward takes out nine cattle cars and a caboose, but on the way when some cows break through the fence and run across the line, Edward loses his three cars and caboose, only to have six, before taking his six cars to a station, and as Edward stands at his station, hauling three coaches, Gordon rushes through, hauling his four coach Wil Nor Wester working, toward a bridge, only to meet a cow named Bluebell, before Henry, with his three coaches, flees from the cow, forcing Percy to collect Edward's three cars and caboose that he lost early, and bring Bluebell's mother.
• In Old Iron, told by Ringo Starr for the US, James, his three coaches, boxcar, and caboose, are waiting for Edward and his three coaches to steam into Wellsworth station, which makes James cross with Edward laughing at him. The next morning when James brings in eight freight cars and a caboose into the yard, James's driver is taken ill, leaving James's fireman to uncouple James from the freight cars and caboose he was pulling. As James thunders down at a dangerous speed past Henry, his three coaches, and Gordon, with his four Wil Nor Wester coaches, poor Edward saves him.
• In Double Trouble (Season 2), told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas puffs happily along his branchline with Annie, Clarabel, and Beatrice, and pulls into Elsbridge station to meet Percy, hauling three freight cars and a caboose, and Toby, hauling Henrietta and Victoria. When Thomas gets covered in coal by Percy's coal cars, he gets covered in coal dust from smokebox to bunker, and gets cleaned for a very long time, that he leaves Toby, Henrietta, and Victoria to take Annie, Clarabel, and Beatrice out for a run, before Toby gets a van called Elsie. After Thomas gets cleaned, he feels more cheerful, and while coupled to Annie, Clarabel, and Beatrice, he sees Percy bringing in his four freight cars and caboose into Tidmouth station, only to crash into a siding with the unsafe buffers, just to learn his lesson about teasing Thomas.
• In James in a Mess, told by George Carlin for the US, Toby and Henrietta arrive at Elsbridge, only to be called by Dirty Objects by James, who arrives, hauling three coaches, and departs for Knapford station to leave his coaches at the end of the line, but shunts four freight cars into four others and a caboose. He sets off, hauling eight freight cars and a caboose, through the countryside, up Gordon's hill, and thunders down toward Maron station where he collides with a load of tar wagons, just to get covered black from smokebox to cab. Percy with three freight cars and a caboose, and Toby with Henrietta, and the Breakdown train, rescue James and put him back on the tracks, before clearing away the unhurt freight cars and taking James back home.
• In Duck Takes Charge, told by George Carlin for the US, Percy pulls three coaches, but brings them to Knapford station at Platform 1, then gets told by Sir Topham Hatt to help Thomas and Toby to build a new harbour at Thomas's junction, providing help is given out. As Thomas goes by Percy, hauling his three coaches, Annie, Clarabel, and Beatrice a new engine called Duck, who helps Percy out by shunting and hauling coaches and freight cars together. As Duck shunts three coaches into platform 2 at Knapford, Henry, Gordon, and James, with their twelve coaches, leave platforms 1, 4, and 3, teasing Duck as they pass him. After Percy leaves, Duck, hauling eleven freight cars and a caboose, gets left to manage alone, and does so easily.
• In Percy Proves A Point, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Percy brings in four freight cars for Toby, Henrietta, Elsie, and Victoria, and their three boxcars and caboose. As Thomas arrives with six freight cars and a cabose to meet Percy, telling him that Sir Topham Hatt is very pleased with his engines, a helicopter named Harold gets met by Percy, who brings in three freight cars and a caboose. Percy collects his eight freight cars and caboose and races Harold the Helicopter toward the Harbour Wharf and finally wins the race against Harold.

(For Better Late Than Never and Other Stories, Told By Ringo Starr and George Carlin)

• In Better Late Than Never, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Edward puffs over the viaduct, hauling Trevor, on his flatbed and a caboose, in which the episode means that Trevor is not introduced yet, and as Henry follows with his three coaches, Edward later follows, hauling two coaches, six freight cars, and a caboose. When Thomas, Annie, Clarabel, and Beatrice arrive at Tidmouth station, late, Thomas tells Bertie about the main line engines dawdling about all day on the viaduct to blame Sir Topham Hatt's workmen, before he sets off with his three coaches back at Elsbridge station, only to meet James, hauling three coaches, a boxcar, and caboose arriving late, for being held up at the station. Luckily for James, since Thomas is a guarantee connection, Thomas hurries away to find a broken down Bertie the Bus telling him to take his passengers home, and when Thomas obeys, Bertie's passengers get on board Thomas's three coaches, before Thomas speeds along the line toward Tidmouth to get Bertie's passengers home safely, just to get help at the next station. When Bertie is better and comes to thank Thomas, Bertie and Thomas thank each other, and go back to work when Sir Topham Hatt gives Thomas another new coach called Britanny.
• In Pop Goes The Diesel, told by George Carlin for the US, Duck pulls three coaches for the moment, but shunts all eleven freight cars and a caboose together, then takes his eleven freight cars and caboose out for a run, passing James, Gordon, and Henry. When a visitor named Devious Diesel arrives and tells Duck that he is revolutionary, Duck later tricks Diesel into trying to take nine empty freight cars from a siding, and when Diesel fails, Duck leaves with his same eleven freight cars and caboose, leaving Diesel to get the Breakdown Train to clear up the mess, with all the freight cars laughing and singing at him.
• In Diesel's Devious Deeds, told by George Carlin for the US, Diesel shunts all the freight cars into their rightful places, and when Duck bumps a freight car away, Diesel plans to send Duck away being telling lies, and after speaking to the freight cars, who like jokes, Henry, Gordon, James, and Sir Topham Hatt later send away poor Duck, who, after shunting four freight cars and a caboose away into a siding, goes to Edward's station.
• In A Close Shave for Duck, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Duck arrives at Wellsworth station to tell Edward about Diesel telling lies to the other engines and Sir Topham Hatt for thinking that he was horrid and got sent away. Edward wants Duck to help him with seven freight cars and a caboose that he is hauling, and when Duck obeys, he helps Edward up to the top. In the chase, Edward's freight cars break away from the blue engine, and chase Duck down the hill toward James, who is pulling out with his three coaches, boxcar, and caboose, only for Duck to crash into a Barber's shop, just to get lathered all over. When Thomas arrives with the Breakdown train to pull the freight cars away, Sir Topham Hatt arrives and is so proud of Duck that he tells the great western that he is a brave engine. After Duck gets properly washed and mended, he comes home to Tidmouth sheds, and after Sir Topham Hatt tells Duck about Diesel lieing, the other engines bring Duck back home.
• In Gordon Takes A Dip, told by George Carlin for the US, Henry goes by Gordon, hauling four freight cars and a caboose, but later takes his three coaches, leaving Gordon to land in a ditch, and forcing Edward to take Gordon's special train, which Gordon refuses to pull.
• In Down the Mine, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Gordon arrives with five freight cars and a caboose alongside Thomas, Annie, Britanny, Clarabel, and Beatrice at Lower Tidmouth, he is teased for landing in a ditch. As Thomas arrives at Knapford station, he leaves his four coaches at the station, and goes to a mine for some freight cars, but falls down a hole in the mine, and gets pulled out by Gordon, who takes him back home.
• In The Runaway, told by Ringo Starr for the US, Thomas the tank engine feels ill, leaving Edward to take him to the works on his flatbed and a caboose. While Thomas is away, Duck accepts Sir Topham Hatt's promotion to help Toby and Percy by taking Thomas's coaches out for a trip. When Thomas returns home, he picks up his four coaches, but carelessly overruns Elsbridge platform, then learns to be extra careful when he finds overrunning the platform most embarrasing, until one day Thomas's fireman gets ill, leaving a relief fireman to take his place. After Thomas gets coupled up to his four coaches, Henry arrives with his three coaches at Elsbridge, but when Thomas's relief fireman forgets about Thomas's handbrake, Thomas leaves the station, with his conductor, driver, fireman, and Henry's passengers, who are all shocked, while standing on Elsbridge platform, just when Henry arrives. Down the line, Thomas is racing at a high speed down the line to reach his destination at Suddery, but is lsaved by Harold the helicopter, and the Inspector, who then save him by stopping him.