(happy music)
(bouncy music)
- [Narrator] Mavis is a
diesel engine who works
for the quarry company
shunting freight cars
and their sidings.
She has six small wheels
hidden by side plates
just like Toby's.
Mavis is young and
full of her own ideas.
She loves rearranging things too
and began putting Toby's cars
in different places every day.
This made Toby cross.
"Freight cars," he grumbled,
"should be where you want them
when you want them."
"Fiddlesticks," said
Mavis and flounced away.
At last, Toby lost patience.
"I can't waste time playing
hunt the cars with you.
Take them yourself."
Mavis was pleased.
Taking cars made
her feel important.
At the station, Diesel
oiled up to her.
"Toby's an old fusspot,"
she complained.
Diesel sensed trouble
and was delighted.
"Toby says only steam engines
can manage freight cars,"
continued Mavis.
"How absurd," squirmed Diesel.
"Depend upon it, Mavis,
anything steam engines can do,
we diesels can do better."
Diesel knew nothing about cars,
but Mavis didn't realize this.
Toby's line crosses the
main road behind the station
and for a short way
follows a farm lane.
Frosty weather
makes the muddy lane
rock hard and very slippery.
(train chugging)
Toby stops before
reaching the lane.
His fireman halts the
traffic at the crossing,
and then he sets off again.
By using the heavy
cars to push him along,
he has no trouble
with the frosty rails
in the lane and across the road.
"It is the only safe thing to do
in this kind of weather."
Toby warned Mavis and
told her just what to do.
"I can manage, thank
you," she replied.
"I'm not an old
fusspot like you."
The freight cars were tired
of being pushed around by Mavis.
"It's slippery,"
they whispered."
"Let's push her around instead.
On, on, on!" they yelled.
Mavis took no notice.
Instead, she brought the cars
carefully down the lane
and stopped at the
level crossing.
All traffic halted.
"One in the headlamp
for fusspot Toby,"
chortled Mavis.
But Mavis had stopped
in the wrong place.
Instead of taking Toby's advice,
she had given the cars
the chance they wanted.
"Hold back, hold
back!" they cried.
"Grr up," ordered Mavis.
The cars just laughed,
and her wheels spun helplessly.
Workmen sanded the rails
and tried to dig
away the frozen mud,
but it was no good.
Everyone was impatient.
"Grr!" wailed Mavis.
Toby was in the yard
when he heard the news.
"I warned her," he fumed.
"She's young yet,"
soothed his driver.
"And she can manage
her cars herself,"
interrupted Toby.
"They're your cars really,"
his driver replied.
"Mavis is supposed to
stay at the quarry.
If Sir Topham Hat finds out..."
"Hmm, yes," said
Toby thoughtfully.
He and his driver agreed
that it would be best
to help Mavis after all.
An angry farmer
was telling Mavis
just what she could
do with her train.
"Having trouble,
Mavis?" chortled Toby.
"I am surprised."
"Grr!" said Mavis.
With much puffing
and wheel slip,
Toby pushed Mavis and
the freight cars back.
The hard work made his
fire burn fiercely,
and his firemen
spread hot cinders
to melt the frozen mud.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
At last they finished.
"Goodbye," called Toby.
"You'll manage now, I expect."
Mavis didn't answer.
She took the cars to the sheds
and scuttled home to the quarry
as quickly as she could.
(bouncy music)
03x14 - Mavis
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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.