Thomas and friends series 17 how to#
Thomas and friends series 17 driver#

One day, up at the Blue Mountain Quarry he finds a nervous and scared young deer. Luke is the smallest narrow gauge engine on the island of Sodor. In the morning however, the bridge is re-opened and it is Caitlin who is the most tired of all. They try sending her off to pull the Mail Train and the Flying Kipper, but Caitlin is so excited that now she wakes everyone else up on the island. When the Vicarstown Bridge is closed for repairs Caitlin canвЂ™t get back and has to spend the night on the Island of Sodor, but she is so excited she keeps waking the other engines up. When Henry realizes Hiro can keep on puffing with bad coal, he decides that he should be able to do that too!Д¬aitlin is a big, fast passenger engine from the mainland. Hiro wants to keep on puffing and delivers their heavy load on his own. Henry is worried that the bad coal will damage his firebox if he continues working, so he decides to head back to his shed.

Duck tells them they have taken on some of the bad coal that was delivered early that morning. Henry and Hiro are both very strong engines, but one day as they are working together, they both start to billow dark smoke from their funnels. But itвЂ™s Cranky who rescues him and Kevin eventually realizes that Cranky does like him after all and appreciates his help. Soon there is trouble when Kevin falls off the docks into the water. Kevin is very disappointed and he tries to please Cranky by working hard and picking up things Cranky has dropped. The only problem is that Cranky doesnвЂ™t want any help. He struggles to keep on schedule, so Sir Topham Hatt decides to send Kevin from the Steamworks to help him. He is very cross, until he realizes itвЂ™s his own fault for leaving WinstonвЂ™s handbrake off.Д¬ranky the crane is very busy down at Brendam Docks. Soon Thomas and Sir Topham catch up with him. Winston thinks driving on his own is exciting at first, but when he realizes he canвЂ™t stop, his journey gets rather frightening. Sir Topham Hatt jumps into ThomasвЂ™ cab and they chase after Winston. So one da,y when Sir Topham Hatt leaves his handbrake off, Winston starts to roll forward on his own and is soon racing down the tracks without a driver.

Thomas and friends series 17 driver#

Winston Sir Topham HattвЂ™s track inspection vehicle, but unfortunately the Sir Topham Hatt is not a very good driver and Winston feels embarrassed when the other engines laugh at him. He tries asking Percy, Thomas and Gordon if he can do their jobs instead, but eventually Scruff realizes that the only way to be Really Useful is to do his own job at the Waste Dump, even if it means getting really dirty. Soon the other engines are telling Scruff how smart he looks, so he decides he doesnвЂ™t want to work at the dirty Waste Dump anymore. When Sir Topham Hatt sees how rusty and dirty Scruff looks, he insists that he goes straight to the Steamworks to be repainted. Scruff works with Whiff at the Waste Dump collecting rubbish trucks. Soon the once proud engine is being shunted to the Steamworks to be repaired. When Gordon finally runs completely out of water, he realizes that his boiler was damaged by the stone and has been leaking. But when a stone from one of Paxton's trucks bounces off his boiler, Gordon doesn't want to wait to be checked over and hurries on his way, only to find that he has to keep stopping again and again to take on more water. Gordon is a proud engine who believes he is the fastest and the best. But when another fire starts on the same night, Flynn races to put it out, proving Sir Topham Hatt really does need two fire engines after all. He tells Belle to take his place on guard at the Castle Fireworks display and sulks in his shed. When Belle beats Flynn to two fires in a row, Flynn really starts to question it himself. This causes concern for Sodor's fire fighting team, Flynn and Belle. When a team of railway inspectors come to the island of Sodor, they question whether Sir Topham Hatt needs two fire engines. Stafford soon realizes that being a quiet engine is actually Really Useful.

But when he is sent to collect some lambs for Farmer McColl, his new noisy sounds make the lambs run away.

Thomas and friends series 17 how to#

Stafford asks Thomas and Percy to teach him how to make the same chuffing sounds they do. So when Stafford overhears some children saying heвЂ™s too quiet and doesnвЂ™t sound like a proper engine, he is very upset.

Stafford, the battery operated engine, doesnвЂ™t run on coal and water like the steam engines, he runs on a battery which is very quiet. When Paxton overhears Toby saying that Thomas has lost his puff, Paxton misunderstands and heads off across the Island of Sodor to look for it. Poor Thomas must wait for his firebox to dry out. He persuades Thomas to have a go, but Thomas accidentally backs into Toby at the water tower and gets his firebox wet. Paxton the diesel engine has been told not to be silly, but when he wobbles over a bumpy track he canвЂ™t help but think that it is fun.