(bright music)
- [Narrator] In the summer time,
the Branch Line
Station masters enjoy
a friendly competition for
the most beautiful station
on the island of Sodor.
(light music)
(hooting)
The engines love to help too.
One evening, Sir Topham
Hatt came to the sheds.
"I want Percy to collect
some flower bushes
"for Lower Tidmouth
Station," he said.
"They're at Maithwaite."
"Maithwaite?" Percy said.
"Y-y-yes sir," he
added nervously.
(whistling)
(engine rumbling)
Percy chuffed anxiously
through the thickening fog.
He doesn't like traveling
to Maithwaite at night.
The line passes
through a junction
next to a spooky
old quarry mine.
(owl hooting)
(eerie music)
Percy hoped the signal at
the junction would be green.
He didn't wanna stop
next to the mine.
But the signal was red.
He had to stop.
(train rumbling)
(eerie music)
Suddenly he saw something.
(crashing)
(mysterious music)
"Bouncing buffers!" cried Percy.
His driver hadn't seen the old
chimney sink into the ground.
The signal changed.
Percy was so scared, he steamed
away as fast as he could.
(energetic music)
(hissing)
The next day, Percy was
telling Donald and Douglas
about the disappearing chimney.
"It's the naughty
gnomes," teased Donald.
"Wee fat men with big feet."
"They make strange things
happen," said Douglas.
"It's legend they steal your
wheels and filch your funnels."
Percy didn't wanna believe
them, but he wasn't sure.
(light music)
Sir Topham Hatt was waiting
for Percy at Dryaw Station.
"I want you to collect
some freight cars
"from the abandoned
mine," he said.
"Y-y-yes sir," Percy answered.
But he really didn't
wanna go there again.
(engine chugging)
Percy hoped he wouldn't see
anything else disappear.
He slipped into the
sidings and buffered
up to the freight cars.
(eerie music)
"Spooky," stammered Percy.
Suddenly, another
building at the old mine
sank into the ground.
(mysterious music)
(rumbling)
"What was that?"
shouted his driver.
"Double bouncing
buffers," shrieked Percy.
He was so scared
he lurched forward
and rammed the freight car.
"Naughty gnomes," cried Percy.
He steamed away
faster than before,
all the way back to
Lower Tidmouth Station.
(engine chugging)
Percy's driver told Sir Topham
Hatt what they had seen.
"It's the naughty
gnomes," cried Percy.
"They like to cause trouble.
"It's legend."
"Nonsense," said
Sir Topham Hatt.
"The old buildings
are collapsing
into empty mine
shafts, that's all."
"But I saw the gnomes,"
protested Percy.
"Of course you did,"
said Dr. Topham Hatt.
"Garden gnomes."
"Garden gnomes?"
"To decorate Lower
Tidmouth Station,"
sir Topham Hatt said.
"They're not scary.
"Garden gnomes bring good luck."
And he ordered Percy to return
immediately and get them.
Percy was scared.
But he knew he had to be
responsible, so he carried on.
"I'm not scared,
I'm not scared."
(light music)
He waited for something
else spooky to happen.
But it didn't.
And Sir Topham Hatt was right.
The garden gnomes
weren't scary at all.
(light music)
(insects whirring)
His driver and firemen
had collected the gnomes.
And Percy took them straight
back to Lower Tidmouth Station.
(owl hooting)
Later that week, the station
master thanked Percy.
"We wouldn't have won
our competition without
"your garden gnomes, Percy."
Percy was very proud.
"You were right sir.
"Naughty gnomes can
be lucky after all."
(cheerful music)
06x13 - Percy and the Haunted Mine
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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.