(upbeat playful music)
(soft music)
- [Narrator] It was winter
on the Island of Sodor.
The first fogs had begun
to roll in from the sea.
Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel
loved the quiet of Misty Valley,
but Thomas must be
careful of rocks
that sometimes roll
onto the tracks.
(rocks crumbling)
Cyril the fogman has
a very important job.
He puts detonators on the tracks
to warn the engines
when there's fog ahead.
"Ooh," shivered Thomas,
as he ran over the detonator.
"That made my axles tingle."
"Cyril's done his
job," said his driver.
"We'd better slow down.
"There's fog ahead."
"Thank you, Cyril," said Thomas.
That night at the sheds,
Sir Topham Hatt had
something special
to show the engines.
It was very large
and strange-looking.
"What is it?" asked Percy.
"It's a new invention.
"A railway foghorn,"
said Sir Topham Hatt.
"It warns you when there's
fog ahead, like this."
(horn blares)
(soft playful jingle)
"That's loud," said Percy.
"Too loud," huffed James.
"Sounds like a tugboat
to me," grumbled Gordon.
Thomas looked worried.
"What will Cyril
do now?" he asked.
"He will be getting
a much needed rest,"
said Sir Topham Hatt.
"Besides, this new foghorn
will be more reliable."
"Poor Cyril," whispered Thomas.
"He's been scrapped."
The next day, Percy
was cheerfully
chuffing through Misty
Valley, when suddenly...
(horn blares)
"Oh, jeepers," exclaimed Percy.
"That foghorn is so
loud, it rattles my dome.
"And it doesn't even
make my axles tingle."
"Still, we'd better slow
down," said his driver.
"There's fog ahead."
The foghorn had been so loud
that it made the hillside shake.
No sooner was
Percy out of sight,
when one rock fell,
then another and another.
(rocks crumbling)
Before long, the
track was blocked.
And the foghorn was crushed.
(soft deflated jingle)
Not far away, Thomas was
happily puffing right on time.
(whistle blows)
(soft dramatic music)
"I can't see a
thing," said Thomas.
And then, before he could
even think of anything else...
"Bust my buffers!" cried Thomas.
"What happened to the foghorn?"
"I don't know," said his driver.
"But at least
nobody's been hurt."
"Toby will be coming down
the line any minute,"
said his fireman.
"If there's no fog
warning," said Thomas,
"he'll run into us."
"Leave it to me," called
a voice from the fog.
"It's Cyril," said Thomas.
"I hope he's in time."
Toby and his coach Henrietta
were chuffing along.
Toby was looking
forward to a well-earned
drink at the next
station when...
"Fog detonators," puffed Toby.
"There must be fog
ahead," said his driver.
"We'd better slow down."
And just around the next bend,
with his axle still tingling,
Toby was very glad they did.
Otherwise, they would've
crashed into Thomas' wreck.
Soon, the tracks were cleared
and Thomas was
back on the rails.
"If it hadn't been for
Cyril," said Thomas,
"Toby might've had a
worse accident than me."
"Instead of replacing
Cyril with the foghorn,"
said Sir Topham Hatt,
"we'll replace the
foghorn with Cyril.
"You're clearly more reliable."
"Thank you, sir," said Cyril.
"And thank you," said Toby.
"New inventions are all
very well," said Thomas.
"But they don't make my
axles tingle," said Percy.
(upbeat playful music)
06x06 - The Fogman
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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.