(upbeat chiming music)
(upbeat theme music)
- [Narrator] If one
morning you were
to ride in Bertie the Bus,
you would run down the
winding country road with him,
cross over stone walled bridges,
(train chiming)
and travel past
Thomas's branch line.
Then you would hear
Bertie's friendly greeting
as he sees one of
his friends pass by.
(bus horn honking)
His name is Tom
Tipper the postman.
(friendly music)
(old engine whirring)
Everyday, Tom travels cheerfully
around the island of Sodor.
(bus horn honking)
(cheerful music)
He stops at stations,
collecting letters and parcels
from Thomas and
Percy's mail train.
(bus honking)
(train chiming)
(bus honking)
Then, he delivers the
mail to farms and cottages
far and wide.
(cheerful music)
The engines know that anywhere
their rails won't reach
Tom Tipper will collect their
mail and deliver it safely
come rain or shine.
(train chugging)
(train whistling)
He's always ready to
help load mail bags
onto the trains, too.
"Thank you, Tom,"
whistles Percy.
"Yes indeed," agrees Thomas,
"You're a really
useful postman."
"Ah," replies Tom,
"but where would I be
"without me van?"
"We make a grand pair."
(bus honking)
(cheerful music)
(train chugging)
(train whistling)
One day, Tom wasn't
at the platform.
A postman they didn't know
dumped the bags on the platform
and disappeared.
"What happened to
Tom?" wondered Percy.
"And his old van,"
said the driver.
"No wonder the new
postman looks cross.
"Trying to carry mail
bags on a bicycle
"would make anyone miserable."
(train whistling)
(train chiming)
Next morning, the engines were
glad to see Tom back again,
but he looked very sad.
"The postmaster decided my
van was too expensive to run.
"But rounds take
longer on my bike.
"I'm sorry, I can't
stop to help you."
"I wish I could cheer Tom
Tipper up," sighed Percy,
the small engine.
He was just wondering about
how this might be done
when his thoughts were
rudely interrupted.
A man was shouting
at Tom Tipper.
"You've gotta come back to
Sir Topham Hatt's office.
"He needs you to sign some
important papers right away."
"Oh, dear," replied Tom Tipper.
"This is going to
make me later still."
He was in a hurry
and being careless.
He propped his bike
against Percy's mail car
and rushed away.
"Stop!" cried Percy.
But Tom was out of sight.
There was worse to come.
Percy's driver hadn't seen
the bike, and he started away.
"Oh, no!" cried Percy.
"Now there'll be trouble."
And there was.
Percy's driver quickly
stopped the train.
Everyone came
running to the scene.
Tom Tipper's bicycle
was in pieces.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Tipper,"
apologized Percy.
"Never mind, Percy,"
said the postman.
"It wasn't your fault."
"But now I've only my legs
to get the mail delivered."
"Whatever will happen next?"
Tom Tipper soon found out.
Next day, he was waiting
happily for Percy.
(upbeat music)
(train chiming)
(train whistling)
(happy music)
"Peep peep," whistled Percy.
"Is that a smart new van I see?"
"It is indeed."
"That accident did me
a good turn, Percy."
"My chief decided a new
van would do the job.
"Much better than another
bike and worth the expense.
"Now I can always
be on time again."
(old engine rattling)
(horn honking)
(cheerful music)
"So I did help," beamed Percy.
"But by accident,
you might say."
(train whistling)
(upbeat theme music)
04x26 - Mind That Bike
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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.