[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
children:
♪ They're two, they're four ♪
♪ They're six, they're eight ♪
♪ Shunting trucks
and hauling freight ♪
♪ Red and green
and brown and blue ♪
♪ They're the Really
Useful Crew ♪
♪ All with different roles
to play ♪
♪ Round Tidmouth Sheds
or far away ♪
♪ Down the hills
and round the bends ♪
♪ Thomas and his friends ♪
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[steam hisses]
[train engine chugging]
male narrator: "The Fastest
Red Engine on Sodor."
[bright music]
- Oh!
[bell dinging]
[train engine chugging]
narrator: James is a really
splendid red engine
who loves to go fast.
[bright music]
Sometimes a little too fast.
[train engine chugging]
[bright music]
[whistle tooting]
- James!
- Out of the way, Toby!
[whistle tooting,
engine thunders]
- [whimpering]
- Hello, Knapford!
Here's James!
[newspaper flaps,
Sir Topham Hatt gasps]
- Hey, Emily.
- Hello, James.
- Oh, mind your speed, James.
And stop showing off.
- [yelps]
- [sighs]
- He's right, James.
Stopping sharply like that
is bad for your brakes.
- [laughs]
I can't help being fast, Emily.
- Don't forget that time your
wooden brake blocks caught fire.
- [moans]
[screaming]
[gasps]
Yes, I remember all that.
But I got rid
of my wooden brake blocks.
And I was painted red.
So good things
came out of that accident,
and I don't have
brake problems anymore.
- You might have problems again
if you carry on like this.
- I have to brake sharply
sometimes, Emily.
I'm the fastest red engine
on Sodor.
- [groans]
- [laughs, toots whistle]
Fastest red engine
on Sodor, are you?
What about Rosie?
- Ha!
Rosie's not fast.
And she's not red either.
She's more of a mauvy-lilac.
- She's red now.
I just saw her today.
- Rosie is red?
Red red?
Like, like me red?
James red? Splendid red?
Are you teasing me?
- Hoo-hoo!
- Thomas? Thomas.
Thomas!
- [blows raspberry]
- [groans]
Cars?
Why do I have to pull cars?
I'm too splendid for cars.
- [laughs]
Too splendid.
- That's what you think.
- You can't pull coaches
all the time.
[laughter]
- [grumbles]
You troublesome trucks
are lucky to be pulled by me.
narrator: James wasn't having
a very good day.
And then he saw...
- Rosie?
[wheels squealing loudly]
- Oh, dear!
- What an awful noise!
- Why do we have to get
pulled by squeaky wheels?
- Hello, James!
- You really are red.
- Yes, I've been repainted.
What do you think?
- I'll tell you
what I think.
I think you're trying
to look like me.
- No, I'm not.
- Not so red now,
Squeaky Wheels.
- Squeaky Wheels!
[laughter]
- Why are they
calling you that?
- No reason.
Just ignore them.
[clears throat]
Where are you off to then?
- I'm taking my cars
to Crovan's Gate.
- I'm going
to Crovan's Gate too.
Wanna race?
Just to see which of us
is the fastest red engine.
- Okay, that sounds fun.
- [laughs]
One, two, three, go!
[train engine chugging]
- James!
[lively music]
♪ ♪
[lively music continues]
♪ ♪
[signals click]
[train engine chugging]
Red signal, James!
- Oh, come on!
[brakes screech]
[train engine chugging]
- James!
- [grunting]
[brakes screeching]
- [gasps]
James!
- Oh, no!
[screams]
[brakes screeching]
[panting, groans]
Sorry, Henry.
- [gasps]
- There's clearly
something wrong
with your brakes, James.
You barely managed to stop.
I don't think
you should be racing.
- [chuckles]
Maybe we should drive.
- [laughs]
Good idea.
- No, you're just
worried I'll win
and prove I'm the fastest
red engine on Sodor.
- I don't care about that!
You need to go
to the Steamworks
and find out why your brakes
aren't working properly.
I'll deliver your cars
while you're having
your brakes checked.
- [sighs]
Fine.
narrator: But when James
stopped at the next signal,
his brakes didn't make the
horrid noise they had before.
- Huh?
They didn't make a noise
that time.
[liquid dripping]
[whistle toots]
[train engine chugging]
[steam hisses]
It wasn't my brakes
after all!
It was the troublesome trucks
pushing me
like they always do.
narrator: James was so convinced
that there was nothing wrong
with his brakes,
he didn't even bother
having them checked.
- Bye!
- Kevin!
- Yes, boss?
- Are you leaking brake fluid?
- Of course not, boss.
I check it regularly.
- Then what is that?
- What is what?
[gasps]
It is me!
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
What to do?
[screams]
[crashes]
- [groans]
narrator: James did
have a problem.
He was leaking brake fluid.
And without enough fluid,
his brakes
couldn't work well at all.
But he hadn't heard
that horrible noise
since he gave Rosie
his troublesome trucks.
And soon, James forgot
all about being careful.
- Wha-ha-ha-ha!
Wahoo!
[whistle toots]
[whistle blows]
narrator: And then
there was trouble.
[brake lever squeaking]
- Oh, no!
- Oh, no!
I can't stop!
- Oh?
- [screaming]
[continues screaming]
Whoa!
[whistle blows]
- Oh?
[James whooshes by, screaming]
Oh.
Whoa.
James!
- Whoa!
[screaming]
[train engine chugging,
James screaming]
[screaming]
Rosie!
Help!
- James!
- Whoa!
[lively music]
♪ ♪
- Help!
♪ ♪
Help!
No!
[James crashes, wall explodes]
- James!
[gasps]
James!
[coughing]
- [groaning]
[brick thuds]
Ow.
- Are you okay, James?
- I think so.
How's my paint looking?
I'm really in trouble now.
- You can say that again, James.
- [gasps]
- I told you many times about
showing off and rushing about.
And now you've ruined the shed.
- But, sir,
James has had problems
with his brakes all day.
He was trying to be careful.
He even went to the Steamworks
to have them fixed.
- [chuckles nervously]
- You did go to the Steamworks,
didn't you, James?
- I did go.
But I thought
the problem had stopped,
so I didn't wait
to get fixed.
- [groans]
Honestly, James,
it would have been better
to fix your brakes
when you had a small problem,
before it turned into
a much bigger one.
- I'm sorry, sir.
Sorry, Rosie.
I should have known
another red engine
would give good advice.
- At least you proved
one thing today, James.
For a while there...
[laughs]
you really were the fastest
red engine on Sodor.
[both laugh]
[helicopter rotors whirring]
[steam hisses]
[gentle woodwind music]
♪ ♪
children singing:
[whistle blasts]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
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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.