(bright, cheerful music)
(happy, bouncy music)
- [Narrator] It was a
busy time at the docks.
All the engines
were working hard,
pushing and pulling
freight cars about.
One morning, Percy was late.
Cranky the Crane was
quick to criticize.
"These ships can't
be kept waiting.
"They have important cargo.
"If they miss the tides, they
will be delayed in the docks.
"You should look up to the
ships and show more respect.
"You are, after
all, only little."
"We've got too much
work," huffed Percy.
"Then perhaps a lorry
should do your job."
Percy was shocked.
(pensive music)
(train engine chugging)
He told the other engines
what Cranky had said.
"Stuffin' nonsense,"
snorted James.
"We engines run this
island," said Henry.
"What if a lorry does arrive?"
I'm afraid it did,
along with two more.
(airy music)
Cranky was delighted.
"Hey you down there,
your job's done now.
"These lorries are taking over.
"One of them wants
to talk to you."
The lorry was very rude.
"What's that steaming lump
of scrap iron doing here?
"Be off with you."
"Scrap iron, steaming
scrap iron, pah."
(train engine chugging)
A little later, Percy
met Thomas and James.
Another lorry was
being rude to them.
Then he saw Percy.
"Oh look, it's a little
green goblin on wheels.
"Ha, you'll be scrapped,
just you wait and see."
(airy, jaunty music)
"Well, bust my boiler,
"what a horrid lorry,"
exclaimed Thomas.
"Despicable," agreed James.
(train engine chugging)
The next engine to
meet a lorry was Toby.
(suspicious music)
"Well, well, well, no wonder
this railway's a mess.
"You belong in a museum,
not working in the quarry."
"I might look old,
but I'm very useful."
"Useful, pah,"
replied the lorry.
"Just you toodle off."
"Toodle?" spluttered Toby.
"Come along, Toby,"
interrupted his driver.
"Don't bother to argue with him.
"We'll go to the
flour mill instead."
But when they arrived
at the flour mill,
Toby was shocked to
see yet another lorry.
"What are you doing here?"
"We three are doing your
work now, you're too slow."
The foreman spoke
to Toby's driver.
"I'm sorry, times are
a-changing I'm afraid."
"Toby might be old,"
replied his driver.
"But he's reliable.
"Come on Toby, we'll
go to the farms.
"They'll still use us."
Toby trundled sadly away.
(melancholic music)
His railway ran
through a narrow gorge,
but vehicles had to tackle
a steep and dangerous road.
When Toby arrived, he saw the
lorry from the quarry again.
It was loaded with rock.
(tense music)
"That lorry's in
trouble," thought Toby.
And he was.
(ominous music)
(rocks tumbling)
(crashes)
(somber music)
The driver was thrown clear.
"Rotten roads," he muttered.
The wrecked lorry was
taken to the docks.
Percy looked at the lorry.
"What's this lump of steaming
scrap iron?" he teased.
"I'll be back,"
replied the lorry.
"So you can wipe that silly
smile off your smokebox."
"Ha," said Percy, and
wheeshed him loudly.
(air hisses)
Then Butch the Breakdown
Vehicle arrived.
He was towing the lorry
from the flour mill.
"What happened?"
asked Toby's driver.
"He was overloaded with
flour," came a reply.
"And he broke down."
(whooshes)
"Not very useful now,
are you?" said Toby.
"Grr," replied the lorries.
Then James whistled excitedly.
(playful music)
"They're bringing in the
third lorry on a barge.
"What happened to that
one?" James asked.
"Stupid Lorry was reversing and
fell straight into the sea,"
said the Tow Truck Man.
Later, Thomas arrived.
He looked at the three
lorries and laughed.
"Well, well, well,
the Brothers Grimm,
"smashed, broken and sunk."
(airy, cheerful music)
The lorries didn't return,
(train horn blows)
and the engines now
worked even harder
to make sure they never will.
(happy, bouncy music)
05x02 - Horrid Lorry
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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.