Samson and the fireworks
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00:00SAMSON AND THE FIREWORKS
00:06Samson and his brake van, Bradford, had come over from the mainland to help out at the
00:11Blue Mountain Quarry.
00:13Ahem. According to the official railway rulebook, birds are not allowed on goods cars!
00:20Hello, Thomas.
00:29Hi, Samson.
00:31Ahem.
00:32Oh, hello, Bradford.
00:34Are you sure those crates are correctly secured to your flatbed, Thomas?
00:39Yes, thank you, Bradford. Perfectly secure.
00:42What have you got there, Thomas?
00:44Oh, these are the fireworks for the Earl's annual fireworks display tonight at Ulfsted Castle.
00:50F-f-fireworks?!
00:52My favourites are the rockets! They're like space rockets whooshing up into the sky!
00:57Higher and higher and higher!
00:59Whee! Bang! Bang! Ha-ha!
01:07See you later!
01:12Woo-hoo-hoo! Bang! Bang! Ha-ha!
01:17Oh, stop it, Thomas! Stop it!
01:23Samson? What's the matter?
01:26Uh, nothing, nothing. Why should anything be the matter? Not afraid of fireworks? No, not at all.
01:31Just a few loud bangs. Nothing to worry about.
01:34Enough muttering. We're already running 32 seconds late. Let's go, let's go. Come on, move it, move it.
01:43Later that day, a thick fog rolled in over the island of Sodor.
01:50None of us could see where we were going.
01:53Watch out, Thomas!
01:56Sorry, Gordon. I didn't see the red signal.
02:00Well, you should have been looking where you were going!
02:07Phew! Look out!
02:12Sorry.
02:15Now, because the fog is so bad and we don't want any accidents, I've asked Cyril the Fogman to come and help us out.
02:24This is a detonator.
02:27We will be placing these on the tracks to warn you that you are coming up to a signal.
02:33So when you hear a bang, slow down and look out!
02:38Because there's a signal ahead.
02:42Uh, thank you, Cyril. Now, off you go and be careful out there.
02:50Oh dear! What's that noise?
03:02Don't panic! It's only the fog detonators. They're warning us that we're coming to some signals.
03:14Samson and Bradford were on their way to the quarry, but nobody had warned them about the detonators.
03:21I'm sure this isn't the way to the Blue Mountain Quarry. You must have taken a wrong turn in the fog.
03:27And then there was trouble.
03:30What was that? Fireworks! Fireworks!
03:36No, Samson! Those aren't fireworks! They're fog detonators!
03:47Watch out!
03:51Samson, stop screaming! They're not fireworks! Get a grip!
03:57And he's not listening.
04:01Fireworks! Fireworks!
04:06Excuse me! What are you playing at? This isn't a stunting yard!
04:25Finally!
04:26Sorry, Bradford. Don't know where we are now. Didn't mean to get lost. But, well, I really do not like fireworks.
04:35They weren't fireworks. I've been trying to tell you. Those bangs were fog detonators to warn you about signals in the fog.
04:45Oh.
04:46Oh, indeed. Now we're lost in the fog in the middle of nowhere.
04:50But what do we do now?
04:52Nothing we can do, boyo, except sit here and wait for the fog to lift.
05:06Sorry.
05:09Fog hasn't lifted.
05:11No, it hasn't. And now it's dark, too.
05:18What was that?
05:23Fireworks?
05:24I thought you said they were detonators!
05:26Not on the tracks. Up there, in the sky.
05:31No, no, don't want to look. Make them go away.
05:34See, Samson? They're not scary. In fact, they look beautiful. Lovely colours and that. Oh, look at that one.
05:42Oh, I suppose it is quite pretty.
05:45Not just pretty, my lad. Useful, too.
05:48Useful?
05:49That must be the Earl's firework display. If we follow the fireworks to the castle, then we'll know where we are and we can find our way home.
05:57Okay. But I don't want to get too close to those fireworks.
06:02Of course not. But we can't stay here all night. Step to it now. Follow those whizzes and bangs!
06:16It's working, Samson! The fireworks are helping us find our way.
06:22Look, Bradford, look! It's the castle! We're here!
06:38So what do you think of the fireworks, then, Samson?
06:41Well, they're not so bad, after all. And most helpful.
06:46But I do wish they weren't so loud.
06:49Well done, Samson. Section 38 of the Railway Hoop Book says engines who face their fears are very, very useful.