14. Gallant Old Engine - UK - HD
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.
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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