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Gallant Old Engine Season 4, Episode 14 Skarloey teaches Duncan how important passengers with a story about Rheneas.   Written by Britt Allcroft and David Mitton Narrated by Michael Angelis Produced by Britt Allcroft and David Mitton    Subtitles available for the hard-of-hearing.     Thomas & Friends is owned and copyright of HiT Entertainment Limited. I own nothing. No money has, or will ever, be made from this video.

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00:39Duncan would not stop grumbling. He grumbled that he wasn't polished enough, he grumbled that he was overworked, most of all he grumbled about the passengers.

00:50"I'm ashamed of you, Duncan," said Skarloey. "Thank goodness Rheneas is coming home soon. Perhaps he'll teach you some sense before it's too late!"

00:58"What is Rheneas to do with me?"

01:02"Rheneas saved our railway," replied Skarloey.

01:05"Please tell us about it!" said Peter Sam.

01:08"Well," began Skarloey, "it was before you came here. Things were bad. Rheneas and I had to keep the trains running or our railway would have to close."

01:22"How awful," murmured Peter Sam.

01:25"I tried hard," continued Skarloey, "but my old wheels ached. Rheneas understood. 'It's my turn now!' he would tell me. He was often short of steam, but he always struggled to a station and rested there. 'I mustn't stop between stations,' he'd say. 'The passengers wouldn't like it!'"

01:46"Pshaw!" huffed Duncan.

01:49He had stopped on a viaduct and hadn't cared at all.

01:52"Passengers," continued Skarloey, "get cross if you stop at the wrong places. Rheneas stopped in a wrong place once and this is what happened..."

02:04One wet and windy afternoon when the rails where damp, Rheneas was travelling home with a full train. There were even passengers in the guard's van. It wasn't a comfortable ride at all.

02:23Rheneas' wheels kept slipping and it was a steep climb. At last, his wheels gripped the rails again.

02:37"The worst is over," he thought. "Now, we're away!"

02:43But they weren't...

02:44"Argh! I've got cramp!" he groaned and Rheneas stopped on the loneliest part of the line.

02:54His driver examined him carefully.

02:58"Your valve gear has jammed. We need to reach the next station. Do you think you can still get us there?"

03:05"I'll try," replied Rheneas.

03:08[SHEEP BLEAT]

03:15[RHENEAS WHISTLES]

03:16Rheneas did his best.

03:29"If I fail," he said to himself, "the passengers will be cross and the railway will close!"

03:38Everything blurred. He was really too tired to make another turn of his wheels, but he did. And another, and another, and another.

03:50[RHENEAS WHISTLES]

03:52Finally, tired but triumphant, Rheneas reached the station.

03:58"I'm here at last," he wheezed.

04:02"Thank you for getting us home," said the passengers. "We'll tell all our friends what a fine railway this is!"

04:09His driver was delighted.

04:12"You're a gallant little engine," he said to Rheneas. "When you're rested, we'll mend you so you'll be ready for tomorrow!"

04:20"And," smiled Skarloey, "Rheneas was always ready for tomorrow."

04:27"Thank you for telling us about him," whispered Duncan. "I was wrong. Passengers are important after all."

04:35The next day, Rheneas came home. All the engines were there to greet him.

04:41Edward pushed his truck to the siding where he was lifted onto his rails.

04:47This was the signal for a chorus of whistles from engines large and small. Everyone was happy and Rheneas was the happiest of all.

04:56"You know," he whispered to Skarloey, "this helps a little engine to feel that, at last, he has really come home."

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