(gentle music)
(lively music)
- [Narrator] Nancy is
a conductor's daughter.
One day, she was
working on Skarloey
with some polish and a rag.
Skarloey was snoozing happily,
but Nancy wanted to talk.
"Wake up, lazybones.
"Your brass is filthy.
"Aren't you ashamed?"
"No," yawned Skarloey.
"You're just an old fusspot."
And Skarloey closed his eyes.
He was thinking about
his friend Rheneas,
and all the good
times they had shared
before Rheneas went
away to be mended.
(horn whistling)
Nancy interrupted again.
"Don't you want to look nice
when Rheneas comes home?"
Skarloey wasn't sleepy anymore.
"What? When?"
"Soon, Daddy told me.
"I'm going now," she said.
"Nancy, stop.
"Do I really look nice?
"Please, polish me again."
"Now who's an old
fusspot?" laughed Nancy,
and set to work once more.
Duncan was jealous.
"Aren't you gonna
polish me too?"
"Sorry, not today.
"I'm going now.
"I'm helping the refreshment
lady this afternoon.
"We must get the ice cream
ready for the passengers.
"Never mind, Duncan."
But Duncan did mind.
"It isn't fair," he complained.
"Peter Sam gets
a special funnel,
"Sir Handel gets special wheels,
"passengers get ice cream,
but I'm not even polished."
Of course, this wasn't true,
but Duncan enjoyed complaining.
He became sulkier still.
That afternoon, there was
bad news from up the line.
"One of Skarloey's coaches
has come off the rails,"
called Duncan's driver.
"We'll have to take
workmen here right away."
"All this extra work,"
grumbled Duncan.
"It wears an engine out!"
"Rubbish!
"Come on!"
(gentle music)
The derailed coach was in a
middle of Skarloey's train,
so he had gone on to the top
station with his front coaches.
Duncan shunted the works
train into the sidings,
and left the workmen
to sort out the mess.
Then he brought the passengers
in rear coaches home.
He sulked all the way.
"I get no rest, I get
no rest," he muttered.
Duncan had made the
journey very difficult.
He was short of steam,
so his driver waited a while
in the hope of raising more.
But Duncan wouldn't try.
"We'll keep our passengers
waiting," said his driver.
Duncan was cross.
"You always think about the
passengers, and never about me."
It wasn't long before
Duncan built up
enough steam to set off again.
But he was still very
grumpy and cross.
"I'm overworked, and
I won't stand it."
At last, they reached the
viaduct near the station.
"Come on, Duncan,"
called his driver.
"One more effort, and
you'll have a rest
"and a drink in the station."
Then Duncan was very rude.
(steam hissing)
"Keep your old station.
"I'm staying here."
And he did too.
Skarloey had to haul
Duncan and his train
all the way to the platform.
(steam hissing)
The passengers were furious.
They told everyone what
a bad railway it was.
(passengers chattering)
That night, Sir Topham
Hatt spoke to Duncan.
"No passengers means no polish."
"And no polish means
no passengers,"
Duncan muttered to himself.
He still has a lot
to learn, doesn't he?
(lively music)
04x13 - Passengers & Polish
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British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.
British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.