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What if the Awdrys had their way over the TV Series?
Season 5
 * Mountain Engine
 * Bad Look-out
 * Danger Points
 * Patrick to the Rescue
 * Little Old Twins
 * Hullo Twins
 * The Missing Coach
 * Crosspatch
 * Bucking Brunco
 * Stick-in-the-Mud
 * Skarloey's and Rheneas' Birthday
 * Super Rescue
 * Gordon goes Foreign
 * Ballast
 * Bert and the Clergymen
 * Mike's Whistle
 * Useful Railway
 * Stop Thief!
 * Thomas, Percy and Duck
 * Old Stuck Up
 * Crossed Lines
 * Henry the Fire Engine
 * Deep Freeze
 * The Return of Diesel
 * Thomas and the Hurricane
 * Mrs Kyndley's Christmas

Season 6
 * Patience is a Virtue
 * Peter Sam and the Prickly Problem
 * Pop Special
 * Sir Handel Comes Home
 * Drip Tank Thomas
 * High Speed Gordon
 * Smokescreen
 * Fire Escape
 * Gordon Proves his Point
 * Mavis and the Lorry
 * Toby Takes the Road
 * We Need Another Engine
 * Sticking Power
 * Jock
 * Teamwork
 * Museum Piece
 * Not a Ticket
 * Trouble on the Line
 * Thomas and the Railtour
 * Snow Problem
 * Washout
 * Toby's Megatrain
 * Thomas Comes Home

Season 7
 * Out of Puff
 * Overhaul
 * Slding Scales
 * Henry Sees Red
 * Percy's Porridge
 * Cab Over Wheels
 * Wilbert the Milk Engine
 * Wired Up
 * Birdstrike
 * Edward and the Cabbages
 * Rabbits
 * Golden Jubilee
 * Speedkiller
 * Sir Handel's Plan
 * Dirty Water
 * I Name this Engine...
 * Overloaded
 * Avalanche
 * Eels on Wheels
 * Toby's Vintage Train

Video and DVD Collection
Videos
 * Coal and other Stories
 * Thomas, Percy and the Coal and other Stories
 * Percy and Harold and other Stories
 * The Deputation and other Stories
 * Spooks and Surprises
 * Season 10 (the entire series recorded from UK's Channel Five's Milkshake)
 * Season 11 episodes (x 19 - recorded from UK's Channel Five's Milkshake)
 * Season 12 (the entire series recorded from UK's Channel Five's Milkshake)

DVDs
 * The Complete Season 1 Collection
 * The Complete Season 2 Collection
 * The Complete Season 3 Collection
 * The Complete Season 4 Collection
 * The Complete Season 5 Collection
 * The Complete Season 6 Collection
 * The Complete Season 7 Collection
 * The Complete Season 8 Collection
 * Calling All Engines
 * The Complete Season 9 Collection
 * Thomas' Trusty Friends (USA DVD)
 * Engines and Escapades
 * The Great Discovery
 * Songs from Sodor
 * Heave Ho!

ERTL Collection
This is my collection of Thomas models from ERTL from the late 1980s to 2000, with some additional models collected in 2009:
 * Metallic Thomas
 * Edward (3D-face)
 * Henry (3D-face)
 * Duck
 * Oliver
 * Bill and Ben
 * BoCo
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Bertie
 * Terence
 * Trevor
 * Harold (minus his big blades)
 * Troublesome Trucks (x 3)
 * Mavis
 * Bulgy
 * Breakdown Crane
 * City of Truro
 * Tar and Milk Wagons (with no coupling hooks)
 * Godred
 * Culdee
 * Lord Harry
 * 199
 * Skarloey
 * Rheneas
 * Sir Handel
 * Peter Sam
 * Rusty
 * Duncan
 * Duke
 * Stepney
 * The Fat Controller and Porter
 * The Fat Controller's Car
 * Scrap Trevor
 * Scruffey
 * Bulstrode
 * The Chinese Dragon
 * Wilbert
 * Sixteen
 * The Canal Boat
 * D Fusit (Gunpowder Truck)
 * Caterpillar Crane
 * Sodor Mail Van
 * Sodor Soft Side Lorry
 * Bluebell (based upon Thomas' model)
 * Bi-Plane (a.k.a Tiger Moth)
 * 'Arry and Bert
 * Dodge
 * Derek
 * Neil
 * Baby Jane (from Bill, Ben and Baby Jane)
 * Michelle (from Invasion of the Monorail)
 * Blue Boiler Spencer (from Invasion of the Monorail)
 * Twelve and Fourteen (Sixteen's friends)
 * Petrol (Skarloey Railway No. 10)

Take-Along Collection
This is my collection of Thomas models in the Take-Along range from Learning Curve that I started since 2008:

Standard Gauge Locomotives
 * Christmas Holiday Thomas (with a Father Christmas' hat over his funnel, snowflakes on his running plate and Christmas decorations on his side-tanks)
 * Gordon (with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement and round buffers)
 * James
 * Percy (x 2: one with happy face, and another with tired face and covered in soot)
 * Toby
 * Lights and Sounds Diesel (with sound effects of a steam engine!)
 * Donald and Douglas
 * Daisy
 * Diesel 10
 * Lady
 * Harvey
 * Emily (with a 2-2-2 wheel arrangement)
 * Fergus (with an arch-shaped smokebox and gold buffers)
 * Arthur
 * Murdoch (with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement)
 * Spencer (with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement and a six-wheeled tender)
 * Molly (with black buffers and bigger face)
 * Neville
 * Dennis
 * Rosie
 * Whiff (with a 0-4-4 wheel arrangement)
 * Billy
 * Stanley

Narrow Gauge Locomotives
 * Mighty Mac
 * Freddie (with a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement)

Rolling Stock
 * Troublesome Trucks (x 2/Standard Gauge)
 * Merlin (with two boxes of frozen fish, two boxes of steam engine parts, and one barrel of Mr Jolly's Chocolate/Brendam Shipping/Standard Gauge)
 * Fred (Standard Gauge)
 * Dibnah (Brendam Bay Blasting Cap Company, Sodor/Standard Gauge)
 * Olivia (082023/Sodor Oil Company/Standard Gauge)
 * Fleur (73005/Sodor Fireworks/Standard Gauge)
 * Oscar (7142/Sodor Oil Company/from Hiro and the Starlight Express)
 * Luke (8374/Sodor Timber Company/from Hiro and the Starlight Express)
 * Ivor (121092/Sodor Ironworks/from Hiro and the Starlight Express)
 * Yeo (Standard Gauge)
 * Christopher (1232/Narrow Gauge)
 * Rebecca (062080/Narrow Gauge)
 * Rocky
 * Hector
 * C.B. (from Hiro and the Starlight Express )
 * Jurassic (Sodor Museum Express/from Hiro and the Starlight Express)
 * Old Reliable (with boxes of tools, excavation signs and dinosaur bones/Sodor Museum Express/Narrow Gauge)
 * Frosty (with parcels for Thomas and Percy, sack of toys, and mail bags/Standard Gauge)
 * Sunshine (Sodor Rescue No. 9/Standard Gauge)
 * H.2.O (Sodor Rescue No. 10/Standard Gauge)
 * Pinchy (070105/Sodor Shipping/Standard Gauge)
 * Eight Legs (073005/Sodor Shipping/Standard Gauge)
 * Sooty (with boxes of miner's tools, mining warning signs, and a pile of coal with lumps of gold/Sodor Mining Company/Standard Gauge)

Non-Rail Characters
 * Cranky
 * Butch (with a buffer beam with buffers)
 * Jeremy
 * Madge (with six wheels, plus a buffer beam with buffers on her trailer)

Sodor Construction Company
 * Jack
 * Alfie
 * Max and Monty (both with buffer beams with buffers at their rear ends)
 * Byron (with a red buffer beam behind his cab)
 * Ned
 * Patrick (The Pack) (with a red buffer beam behind his rear wheels)

Human Characters
 * Mr. Percival (in a red car)

Railway Buildings
 * Water Tower/Water Column
 * Tidmouth Sheds (with thirteen spaces: five on the ground floor and nine spaces in the roof)
 * Sodor Engine Works and Engine-Wash

Favourite "Thomas" characters

 * My favourite Awdry steam engine is...Toby.
 * My favourite Awdry narrow-gauge engine is...Peter Sam.
 * My favourite Awdry diesel engine is...BoCo.
 * My favourite Awdry road character is...Trevor.
 * My favourite non-Awdry male steam engine is...Whiff.
 * My favourite non-Awdry narrow-gauge engine is...Mighty Mac.
 * My favourite non-Awdry diesel engine is...Salty.
 * My favourite non-Awdry road character is...Kevin.
 * My favourite non-Awdry female steam engine is...Rosie.
 * My favourite human character is...Mr. Percival.

TOMY Trackmaster Collection
This is the collection of my "Thomas & Friends" TOMY Trackmaster models:

Locomotives
 * Salty
 * "Busy Bee" James
 * Hank (with a twelve-wheeled tender: eight black non-moving wheels and four red moving wheels)
 * Flora
 * Li (from Hiro and the Starlight Express)

Rolling Stock
 * Troublesome Trucks (x2)
 * Brake Vans (x2)
 * Flat-Bed
 * Flora's Tram Car (with twelve wheels: eight non-moving wheels and four moving wheels)

Baby Jane
This is the profile of my first "Thomas & Friends" character for the Railway Series.

Bio When Bill and Ben get overloaded with too much work, the Fat Controller decided to have a very unique tank engine to be built. After building, the new engine was named Baby Jane and she now works with Bill and Ben as the third engine belonging to the Sodor China Clay Company.

Personality Baby Jane is a hard-working tank engine, who often takes on too much work. However, she had some difficulties when she first came to Sodor because, with a very high bufferbeam, she found it hard to see what was ahead of her. Once she was fitted with a pair of glasses, Baby Jane found it much easier to work. Though the trucks tease Baby Jane for pulling only three or four of them at a time, they know better not to play any tricks on her.

Livery Baby Jane carries the same livery as Bill and Ben; yellow-orange with red stripes and carries the No.3.

Basis Baby Jane is based on a very unique Peckett 0-4-0 side tank engine nicknamed "the Flying Bufferbeam", which has survived into preservation.

Trivia
 * Baby Jane was originally built with a very low cab. However, as this made her driver and fireman uncormfortable. So, during her time at the Works to have a pair of glasses fitted, Baby Jane had her low cab removed.
 * Baby Jane was launched into service by Lancashire actress, Jane Horrocks.

Michelle
This is the profile of my second "Thomas & Friends" character, though this one is for my idea of a feature-length musical called "Invasion of the Monorail".

Bio Michelle is P. T. Boomer's railway motorbike and Diesel 10's trusty side-kick. Unlike Splatter and Dodge, she agrees with Diesel 10's intentions to destroy steam engines and her plan is to have monorails all over Sodor.

Personality Michelle is very reckless for a motorbike, and believes that speed is everything. However, Michelle is P. T. Boomer's thirteenth motorbike, which considers her unlucky. But, she always ensures that her bad luck won't get the better of her, which occassionally does!

Basis Michelle isn't based on any particular machine. She is basically a motorbike with a bufferbeam at each end. As she runs on a mono-rail, she has guide wheels attached to her bufferbeam via some beams of metal. Also, Michelle has two flanges on her big disc wheels.

Livery Michelle is painted black with red stripes and has the number 13 painted on her bodywork.

Trivia
 * Michelle's toy model is a modified ERTL model of "Tenderless James".

Merlin
This is the profile of my third "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Belonging to Brendam Shipping Company, Merlin is a van who can carry a variety of loads. The majority of his journeys out on the mainline are with Henry, James, Donald and Douglas. Like Hector, he is a very friendly character amongst the Trucks.

Trivia
 * Merlin's toy model is the red "Brendam Shipping Company" Magical Cargo Van in the Take-Along range.

Fleur
This is the profile of my fourth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Fleur is a female truck belonging to Sodor Fireworks. She loves fireworks, especially as they make big bangs! However, Fleur is a very careful truck as she knows the risks and dangers of rockets, so she is never placed amongst the goods trains; she has to be taken to the fun fairs and harvest festivals with a very careful engine, like Edward.

Trivia
 * Fleur's toy model is the blue "Sodor Fireworks" truck in the Take-Along range.

Olivia
This is the profile of my fifth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Olivia is a female tank wagon belonging to the Sodor Oil Company. She carries the oil for the diesel engines to the fuel depot. Also, she knows that diesel engines are very useful, though some steam engines disagree.

Trivia
 * Olivia's toy model is the "Sodor Oil Company" oil tanker in the Take-Along range.

Fred and Dibnah
This is the profile of my sixth and seventh "Thomas & Friends" characters.

Bio Fred is a foghorn wagon, usually working in Misty Valley. He can be moved about to various places when the weather is forecasting foggy conditions.

Dibnah is the detonator truck belonging to the Brendam Bay Blasting Cap Company. He carries the detonators for the fogmen.

Trivia
 * Fred and Dibnah's toy models are the Fog Trucks in the Take-Along range.
 * Fred and Dibnah were named after Dr Fred Dibnah MBE, a famous TV steeplejack who lived in Bolton, Lancashire.

Yeo
This is the profile of my eighth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Yeo is a very old truck, who had being rotting away in an overgrown siding. But when he was discovered, he was rescued and sent to be restored at the Works. Following his repairs including the fitting of a water tanker, Yeo was painted bright yellow and now, he works with Toby as his water tender.

Trivia
 * Yeo's toy model is the yellow truck with an orange barrel in the Take-Along range.

Ivor, Luke and Oscar
This is the profile of my ninth, tenth and eleventh "Thomas & Friends" characters.

Bio Known by all engines and trucks as "the Tipper Trio", Ivor, Luke and Oscar are the tipper flat-beds and are very troublesome indeed. They take advantage of their tipping abilities to spill their cargo whilst on the move. But, this always lands them into trouble with the Fat Controller.

Ivor is the blue tipper flat-bed, belonging to Sodor Ironworks. Luke is the green tipper flat-bed, belonging to Sodor Timber Company, and Oscar is the orange tipper flat-bed, belonging to the Sodor Oil Company.

Trivia
 * Ivor, Luke and Oscar's toy models are the tipping flat-beds in the Take-Along range.

Christopher and Rebecca
This is the profile of my twelfth and thirteenth "Thomas & Friends" characters.

Bio Christopher and Rebecca are the two heavy-duty trucks on the Skarloey Railway. They carry coal and stone from the mines with the smaller trucks to the Wharf or the Transfer Yards. They work very well together, and they are friendly with the narrow-gauge engines. However, Mighty Mac, being the strongest engine, takes them all the time.

Christopher is the yellow heavy-duty truck, whilst Rebecca is the red one.

Trivia
 * Christopher's toy model is the yellow heavy-duty truck carrying coal in the Take Along range.
 * Rebecca's toy model is the red heavy-duty truck carrying rocks in the Take Along range.

Old Reliable
This is the profile of my fourteenth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Old Reliable is a former narrow-gauge guard's van, belonging to the Sodor Museum. The museum staff restored him and converted him to carry their tools and equipment when they have to make a archaelogical dig, so he is based at the Transfer Yards. Old Reliable always gives advice to the young narrow-gauge engines, and is very friendly for an old guard's van.

Trivia
 * Old Reliable's toy model is the green van belonging to the Sodor Museum in the Take-Along range.

Jurassic
This is the profile of my fifteenth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Jurassic is an open-sided truck, who carries the dinosaur bones for the Sodor Museum and works with Old Reliable. He is a very careful truck, and doesn't like being rushed whereas the trucks would rush things just for fun.

Trivia
 * Jurassic's toy model is the green open-sided truck with the dinosaur skeleton (from Rheneas and the Dinosaur) in the Take-Along range.

C.B.
This is the profile of my sixteenth "Thomas & Friends" character, who features in my idea of a feature-length special, "Hiro and the Starlight Express".

Bio C.B. (which stands for "Crazy Brakevan") is a red brakevan from the United States of America. He works very hard and is kind and helpful, like Toad. However, C.B. has a dark side as he was always chased by the police as the runaway train. This dark side got the better of C.B. as he eventually got damaged when he was racing with Diesel 10 in the final race.

Trivia
 * C.B.'s toy model is the red musical caboose in the Take-Along range.

Sunshine and H.2.0
This is the profile of my seventeenth and eighteenth "Thomas & Friends" characters.

Bio Sunshine is the Search Light Truck. He is always used during rescues at night-time.

H.2.O is the Fire-Fighting Truck with a hose. Whenever there is a fire, she is always on the scene using her hose.

Sunshine and H.2.O both belong to Sodor Rescue.

Trivia
 * Sunshine and H.2.O's toy models are the Sodor Rescue Trucks Nos 9 and 10 in the Take-Along range.

Pinchy and Eight Legs
This is the profile of my nineteenth and twentieth "Thomas & Friends" characters.

Bio Pinchy and Eight Legs are the Fish Trucks belonging to Sodor Shipping Company, and they live at the Fishing Village where Arthur works.

Pinchy carries the lobsters and crabs, so he gets teased by the other truckss for having a "pinch"!

Eight Legs carries the octopus and squid, which scares the other trucks.

Trivia
 * Pinchy and Eight Legs' toy models are the Fish Trucks in the Take-Along range.

Frosty
This is the profile of my twenty-first "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Frosty is the special post van, who helps out during Christmas when so many post vans are required to carry the presents. Frosty is a very cheerful van and loves seeing the children. During the rest of the year, Frosty helps Thomas and Percy with the post trains at night as a spare van.

Trivia
 * Frosty's toy model is the red Christmas Holiday post van in the Take-Along range.

Sooty
This is the profile of my twenty-second "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Sooty is a van belonging to Sodor Mining Company, who carries the tools and equipment for the coal miners. Like all trucks, he likes to be useful than clean and loves getting covered in coal dust.

Trivia
 * Sooty's toy model is the green mining van in the Take-Along range.

Twelve and Fourteen
This is the profile of my twenty-third and twenty-fourth "Thomas & Friends" characters, and these two are for the Railway Series.

Bio Twelve and Fourteen are two industrial tank engines, who worked at the Steelworks with Sixteen. They were both very reliable engines and always obeyed the rules. They tried their best to warn Sixteen of the DANGER notice, but to no avail. Like Sixteen, they only had numbers as names.

Trivia
 * Twelve's toy model is Thomas' ERTL model painted yellow with blue stripes. Also, he has the number 12 painted on his side tanks, plus black and yellow "hazard" stripes on the rear of his bunker.
 * Fourteen's toy model is Percy's ERTL model painted green with red stripes. Also, he has the number 14 painted on his saddle tank, plus black and yellow "hazard" stripes on the rear of his bunker.

Petrol
This is the profile of my twenty-fifth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Petrol is a new little engine working for Mr. Percival to help Rusty. As Petrol hates the rain, all the steam engines thought he was being lazy until he broke down and Rusty understood that Petrol suffers teething troubles, like Derek.

Personality Being a petrol locomotive, Petrol hates the rain as it makes him weak as his electrics sometimes get wet. However, he is willing to work and tries his very best to be Really Useful.

Basis Petrol is based on the Simplex petrol locomotive with no cab.

Livery Petrol is painted yellow with black stripes and carries the number 10.

Trivia
 * Petrol's toy model is Diesel's ERTL model painted yellow with black stripes, plus the removal of the cab.

Electra
This is the profile of my twenty-sixth "Thomas & Friends" character, who features in my idea of a feature-length musical called "Hiro and the Starlight Express".

Bio Nicknamed "the Daddy-Long-Legs", Electra works along the newly-refurbished coastal run with electrical wires above him providing the power, making him the only electric train on Sodor.

Personality Electra believes that elctric trains are better than steam engines and diesel engines, hence his participation in the race using the coastal run. He claims himself to work on alternative current (AC) and direct current (DC). After losing the race to Hiro, Electra runs away during a storm.

Basis Electra is based on the very unusual electric train with sixteen wheels, which once ran along the beaches east of Brighton, East Sussex with the tidal water surrounding it.

Livery Electra has a grey frame and grey supports with a red and cream coach body on his deck.

Trivia
 * The Electric Coastal Run (which is Electra's line) consists of four rails running along the coast, west of Brendam. Two pairs of lines are 2 foot gauge, though the total width of the line is 18 foot gauge.

Li
This is the profile of my twenty-seventh "Thomas & Friends" character, who, like Electra, features in "Hiro and the Starlight Express".

Bio Li is the legendary midnight train, nicknamed "the Starlight Express". When Hiro runs out of luck, he calls for Li to help him. Li convinces Hiro to believe in himself. However, he helps Hiro by giving him his legendary Starlight Coal.

Personality Li is a very kind steam engine for his huge size. He always helps any engine in distress in the night. His Starlight Coal provides good fuel for those poorly steam engines.

Basis Li is a tenderless version of a British-built Chinese steam engine with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and a cow-catcher in front. He has red nameplates on both sides of his boiler, just behind his smokebox. Also, he has a headlamp on his smokebox as his nose.

Livery Li has very similar livery to Hiro, black with red wheels.

Trivia
 * Like Lady, Li is a magical steam engine.

Betty
This is the profile of my twenty-eighth "Thomas & Friends" character.

Bio Betty is a steam beam engine working at Sodor Steamworks, driving all the various machinery and moving the transfer table. She lives in a tall engine house alongside the main building.

Personality Betty is a wise old steam engine, who works very hard and knows well that she is very essential to Victor as she operates the machinery, though she remembers that she is part of a team.

Basis Betty is a beam engine designed and built by James Watt in the 1860s with her face on the valve-chest and her blue nameplate mounted on her beam.

Livery Betty is painted cream with blue stripes.

Bill, Ben and Baby Jane
The Flying Bufferbeam

Bill and Ben are overworked at the China Clay Pits, and their manager agrees that they need another engine. But, the route to the quarry goes under a very low bridge, which means that BoCo and Edward can't help them. However one evening, Bill and Ben tell them about their twins, Alfed and Judy and a low-down tank engine called Flying Bufferbeam, who have being preserved. A few days later, the Fat Controller and the China Clay Manager visit the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre where the Flying Bufferbeam lives. Sadly, the Flying Bufferbeam is under overhaul, but the volunteers kindly give the Fat Controller copies of the Flying Bufferbeam's original plans.

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Once the Fat Controller returns to Sodor, he tells Bill and Ben that they are going to have a new engine working with them. The twins are very pleased, so too are Edward and BoCo. But when the Big Engines hear about this, they think that Bill and Ben are going to be withdrawn from service. Quickly, the rumour spreads amongst the Fat Controller's Engines until Thomas and BoCo tell them the truth. Gordon, Henry and James feel very silly for thinking that Bill and Ben were being taken out of service.

A New Engine and an Actress

Many months later, the new engine for the Sodor China Clay Company is finished and goes through its tests at the Works. The Fat Controller announces that a special naming ceremony will be taking place at Wellsworth, with a special guest coming from London to name the new engine. All the engines know that the new engine is presently called S.C.C No. 3. On the big day, Emma and Pip arrive from London with the special guest - an actress called Jane Horrocks. Jane Horrocks pulls the curtain to announce the new engine's name - Baby Jane! Also, she releases a bottle of champagne to confirm Baby Jane's offical launch into service on the railway.

Problems for Baby Jane

Baby Jane starts working with Bill and Ben at the China Clay Pits. But, due to her high front bufferbeam, Baby Jane finds it hard to see ahead, so she accidentally gives the trucks a hard bump, which makes them cross. Also, her driver and fireman find it hard to see outside the cab because it has a very low roof. Bill and Ben feel sorry for Baby Jane and their manager sends his new engine back to the Works for some modications. A few days later, Baby Jane comes home without a cab, but plus the addition of a huge pair of glasses fitted for her eyes.

Featured characters
 * Baby Jane
 * Bill and Ben
 * Edward
 * BoCo
 * The Fat Controller
 * Gordon
 * Henry
 * James
 * Thomas
 * Donald and Douglas
 * Emma and Pip
 * The Flying Bufferbeam (does not speak)
 * Alfred and Judy (mentioned)
 * Percy (mentioned)

Hiro and the Starlight Express
This is my first idea for a "Thomas & Friends" feature-length musical.

Plot The story starts off where "Hero of the Rails" ended with Hiro going back to Japan. Afterwards, the Fat Controller tells Lady Hatt and his grandchildren all about Hiro. That night, Stephen Hatt goes to sleep and has a dream, which is where the musical starts....!

....Stephen Hatt is at Knapford making an annoucement about Race Night across the Island of Sodor, with a variety of locomotives and rolling stock taking part. In the rules of the race, it says for each engine to take part with either another engine or some rolling stock. Race Night consists of three heats, and each start from Brendam Docks and finish at Knapford.

Diesel 10, being big and strong, believes that he'll be able to win all the races; so too do the other diesels. To their surprise, Hiro (as a patchwork engine) says that he's taking part in the race. The diesel engines just laugh at him, seeing Hiro as too slow and too old for the race.

Hiro meet the girl engines at Knapford, and tells them that he's taking part in the race. But, they have their doubts about his ability to race as he's quite old for a steam engine. Mavis is taking the smoking cars, Emily is taking the buffet cars, Rosie is taking the dining cars and Flora is taking her tramcar. Diesel 10 comes to tell the girl engines that he's going to win, and then, Jurassic, Hector, C.B. and the Tipper Trio explain to the girl engines who freight is great!

At Brendam Docks, a mysterious train is going along the coastal run at high tide; it's Electra, who'll be using his electric line to take part in the race. He warns the engines that he can shock them with his electricity.

Back at Knapford, Hiro sees Flora with no partner and offers to take her. But, Flora tells him that she has the Engine of her Dreams - a steam engine, which isn't Hiro! Flora knows that her Dream Engine always whistles at her.

In the first race, Hiro takes the Tipper Trio (Ivor, Luke and Oscar) whilst Diesel 10 takes Rosie and C.B. During the race, Diesel 10 pushes Hiro off the rails, which makes Rosie call him a cheater shortly after he wins the race. Diesel 10 gets so cross that he leaves Rosie on her own. However, kind-hearted C.B. comforts Rosie.

Upon arrival back at Knapford, Hiro tells Edward that he has run out of hope, as Flora won't go with him. Edward and the Tipper Trio try to give him more confidence by telling him about Molly, who use to haul the Sleeping Train. Molly explains about her experience and only ending up in the Coaling Plant.

Edward takes Molly in Hiro's place for the second race. However, despite winning the race, Edward is too worn out, so Hiro must take his place in the final race. Remaining unconfident, Hiro is very upset. Edward and Molly cheer Hiro up by telling him about the Starlight Express, the legendary mid-night train, so hiro pleads for the Starlight Express to help him.

Featured characters (in order of appearance)
 * The Fat Controller (speaking role)
 * Lady Hatt (speaking role)
 * Bridget Hatt (speaking role)
 * Stephen Hatt (speaking role)
 * Diesel 10 (singing and speaking roles)
 * 'Arry and Bert (singing roles)
 * Diesel (singing role)
 * Hiro (singing and speaking roles)
 * Mavis (singing and speaking roles)
 * Emily (singing and speaking roles)
 * Rosie (singing and speaking roles)
 * Flora (singing and speaking roles)
 * Ivor, Luke and Oscar (singing and speaking roles)
 * Jurassic (singing and speaking roles)
 * Hector (singing and speaking roles)
 * C.B. (singing and speaking roles)
 * Electra (singing and speaking roles)
 * Edward (singing and speaking roles)
 * Molly (singing and speaking roles)
 * Li (singing and speaking roles)
 * Thomas (singing role)
 * Henry (singing role)
 * Gordon (singing role)
 * James (singing role)
 * Percy (singing role)
 * Toby (singing role)
 * Duck (singing role)
 * Donald and Douglas (singing roles)
 * Oliver (singing role)

Songs
 * "Overture" - Stephen Hatt
 * "Rolling Stock" - Diesel 10, Diesel, 'Arry and Bert
 * "Call me Rusty" - Hiro, Mavis, Emily, Rosie and Flora
 * "A Lotta Locomotion" - Mavis, Emily, Rosie and Flora
 * "Pumping Iron" - Diesel 10, Mavis, Emily, Rosie and Flora
 * "Freight" - The Girl Engines and the Trucks
 * "AC/DC" - Electra
 * "He Whistled at me" - Flora
 * "There's me" - C.B.
 * "Edward's Blues" - Edward and Hiro
 * "Molly the Sleeping Engine" - Molly
 * "Starlight Express" - Edward, Molly and Hiro
 * "The Rap" - All Engines and Rolling Stock
 * "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D" - Rosie
 * "Rolling Stock" - Mavis, Emily, Molly and Rosie
 * "C.B." - C.B
 * "Right Place, Right Time" - Ivor, Luke and Oscar
 * "I am the Starlight" - Li and Hiro
 * "He Whistled at me" - Rosie
 * "No Comeback" - Electra
 * "One Rock 'n' Roll Too Many" - Diesel 10 and C.B.
 * "Only He" - Flora
 * "Only You" - Hiro and Flora
 * "Light at the End of the Tunnel" - Edward, Molly and all the Engines

Invasion of the Monorail
This is my second idea of a "Thomas & Friends" feature-length musical.

Plot The musical starts very early one autumn morning with the Fat Controller going to Sodor Steamworks to see Emily, who now has the number 12 painted inside the middle yellow square on each side of her tender. Afterwards, Emily takes the Fat Controller to Sodor Diesel Works to see BoCo under going his test runs. Afterwards, the Fat Controller is to bring BoCo home for his welcome-home party.

That evening, all the members of the Steam Team (Thomas, Edward, Gordon, Henry, James, Percy, Toby, Duck, Donald, Douglas, Oliver and Emily) are at Knapford station to await the arrival of their old friend, BoCo. Meanwhile, BoCo and the Fat Controller are heading back to Knapford from the Diesel Works when they discover a length of monorail on the express line. So, they follow it. As they come near to the end of the monorail on Gordon's Hill, a biker called P. T. Boomer takes BoCo and the Fat Controller as prisoners, thinking that they were spying on him.

After many hours waiting at Knapford, the party is cancelled. To make matters worse, Lady Hatt arrives, wondering where her husband is. The station master declares a state of emergency to find the Fat Controller and BoCo. Prior to the search, the Steam Team decide that Edward is to be Controller of the railway in the meantime.

The next morning, Harold arrives at Tidmouth Sheds to tell the Steam Team about the monorail on the express line. All the engines are quite concerned that the monorail is a threat to them as they run on a pair of rails. During his search, Thomas follows the monorail from its rail-head at Wellsworth, up and over Gordon's Hill  to some overgrown sidings where he meets a railway motorbike called Michelle, who is working with Diesel 10. Thomas sees Rosie as he leaves the sidings and warns her about the monorail, and then, carries on with his search for the Fat Controller and BoCo by going into the hills, to the wharf and the transfer yards. With hardly any coal left in his bunker, Thomas goes to Great Waterton to stay in the Tram Shed for the night.

Meanwhile, Rosie takes Annie and Clarabel for Thomas. Once back at Knapford, Rosie tells Annie and Clarabel that she is very lonely, so they suggest to stay with Thomas for the night. So, Rosie goes to Great Waterton.

During the night, Michelle discusses her plans with all the naughty diesel engines. As well as extending her monorail, she is after one particular steam engine - Spencer the Silver Streak!

The next morning, Thomas and Rosie head back to Knapford and they are very worried about the threat of the monorail. Enroute, Michelle speeds past them, so they give chase. However, their chase ends as they crash into the buffers at Wellsworth and come off the rails. Meanwhile, P. T. Boomer and Michelle are seeing the monorail being extended towards Knapford.

Harold sees Thomas and Rosie off the rails, so he finds Edward, who sends Donald and Douglas to take Rocky whilst Emily takes the flat-beds. But, taking Thomas and Rosie to Sodor Steamworks will be too much for Emily. Luckily, Spencer arrives from Brendam Docks and quickly puts his boasting aside to help Emily and the Scottish Twins. At Wellsworth, Rocky puts Thomas and Rosie onto the flat-beds between Emily and Spencer. On route to the Steamworks, Emily sees Diesel 10, who is hunting down Spencer. Quickly, the two tender engines (with Thomas and Rosie between them) puff away, so Diesel 10 gives chase....!

Luckily for the Steamies, Diesel 10 runs out of fuel, so they get Thomas and Rosie to the Steamworks. Emily goes back to Tidmouth whilst Spencer stays at the Steamworks until nightfall, in the hope that he won't be hunted down. Once back at Tidmouth Sheds, Emily and the remaining members of the Steam Team talk about the famous steam enthusiast and steeplejack, Dr Fred Dibnah MBE.

That night, Spencer heads back to Tidmouth, only to find Diesel 10 (now refuelled, thanks to 'Arry and Bert) on his tracks again. Spencer takes a short-cut across the marshes where an old bridge breaks under his weight and he falls into the mud. Diesel 10 leaves Spencer where he is!

At the overgrown sidings, the Fat Controller finds Old Slow Coach as a prisoner too, and with BoCo, they suggest an escape plan.

By morning, the fitters have fixed Thomas and Rosie, much to the delights of Victor and Kevin. During their steam test and final inspection, Thomas and Rosie express thier love for each other from deep inside their boilers. After their steam test, they head back to Knapford.

Back at the overgrown sidings, Diesel 10 is breaking up Spencer, and then with P. T. Boomer go along the mainline to check the monorail, only to discover that Thomas and Rosie are in working order. P. T. Boomer is furious, and demands Diesel 10 to explain why the two tank engines are still alive. Diesel 10 sheepishly confesses that he ran out of fuel whilst he chased them! Once back at their base, P. T. Boomer interrupts Michelle's victory claim, to explain that Thomas and Rosie are still alive. Michelle tells Diesel 10 to hunt the two tank engines down.

Still heading back to Knapford, Rosie tells Thomas to slow down as she can't keep up with him. It's lucky though that Thoms won't slow down as Diesel 10 arrives. Quickly, they race away with Diesel 10 chasing them. At the junction to Thomas' branch line, Diesel 10 goes too fast that "Pinchy" breaks off his roof as it crashes into the signalbox above the line. Now, Diesel 10 can't scrap steam engines anymore!

That night, BoCo, Old Slow Coach and the Fat Controller escape from P. T. Boomer and Michelle, though Spencer is left behind in pieces. They arrive at the Quarry to find Fergus, Duke, Derek, Hank, Hiro (visiting the island) and Charlie all there. Victor arrives and agrees with the Fat Controller to rescue Spencer. With help from Duck, Oliver, Rocky and the Scottish Twins, Victor gets Spencer to the Steamworks.

The next day, Michelle and P. T. Boomer go along the monorail, only to come off it at it's rail-head miles away from Knapford. With Spencer being rescued during the previous night, the diesels were trying to catch him again; so, no work on the extension of the monorail had being done! Thomas and Rosie arrive at the monorail's rail-head with the Fat Controller whilst Harold arrives with the police. The police take P. T. Boomer to prison on the Mainland whilst Michelle is sent to Bertie's bus depot to be converted into a normal motorbike... for the roads.

Many weeks later, the monorail is removed and replaced with a pair of rails on the express line. BoCo's welcome-home party takes place at Knapford station, with Thomas and Rosie as the guests of honour. Spencer arrives at the party, with a round face as his streamlined door is yet to be fitted and a blue boiler. But, all the engines on Sodor and the Fat Controller are happy that the railways on the Island of Sodor will always be proper railways!

Featured characters (in order of appearance)
 * Gordon (singing role)
 * The Fat Controller (speaking role)
 * Emily (speaking and singing roles)
 * BoCo (speaking and singing roles)
 * Thomas (speaking and singing roles)
 * Edward (speaking and singing roles)
 * Henry (singing role)
 * James (singing role)
 * Percy (singing role)
 * Toby (singing role)
 * Duck (speaking and singing roles)
 * Donald and Douglas (speaking and singing roles)
 * Oliver (speaking and singing roles)
 * Lady Hatt (speaking role)
 * Harold (speaking role)
 * Michelle (speaking and singing roles)
 * Rosie (speaking and singing roles)
 * Annie and Clarabel (speaking and singing roles)
 * Diesel 10 (speaking and singing roles)
 * Splatter and Dodge (singing role)
 * 'Arry and Bert (singing role)
 * Diesel (singing role)
 * Daisy (singing role)
 * Spencer (speaking and singing roles)
 * Rocky (speaking and singing roles)
 * Old Slow Coach (singing role)
 * Victor (speaking and singing roles)
 * Kevin (speaking role)
 * Mavis (speaking and singing roles)
 * Fergus (singing role)
 * Duke (singing role)
 * Derek (singing role)
 * Hank (singing role)
 * Hiro (singing role)
 * Charlie (singing role)
 * Flora (cameo)
 * Skarloey (cameo)
 * Rheneas (cameo)
 * Sir Handel (cameo)
 * Peter Sam (cameo)
 * Rusty (cameo)
 * Duncan (cameo)
 * Freddie (cameo)
 * Mighty Mac (cameo)
 * Bertram (cameo)
 * Colin (cameo)

Trivia
 * Invasion of the Monorail is loosely based upon the musical, We Will Rock You.
 * In this musical, Tidmouth Sheds has twelve berths with the turntable under one roof, just like its Railway Series counterpart.

Songs
 * "Innuendo" - BoCo
 * "Radio Ga Ga" - The Steam Team
 * "I Want to Break Free" - Thomas and Rosie
 * "Somebody to Love" - Rosie, Annie and Clarabel
 * "Killer Queen/Play the Game" - Michelle and the Diesel Engines
 * "Under Pressure" - Thomas and Rosie
 * "A Kind of Magic" - P. T. Boomer and Michelle
 * "I Want It All" - Spencer and Emily with Donald, Douglas and Rocky
 * "Headlong" - Thomas, Emily, Spencer and Rosie
 * "No-One but You" - Emily and the Steam Team
 * "One Vision" - BoCo and Old Slow Coach
 * "Who Wants to Live Forever" - Thomas and Rosie
 * "Flash/Seven Seas of Rhye" - Diesel 10 and P. T. Boomer
 * "Don't Stop Me Now/Another One Bites the Dust" - Michelle
 * "Hammer to Fall" - Thomas, Rosie and Mavis
 * "These are the Days of our Lives" - BoCo, Fergus, Duke, Derek, Hank, Hiro, Victor and Charlie
 * "We Will Rock You" - Thomas
 * "We are the Champions" - Thomas and all the Engines
 * "We Will Rock You (Fast Version)" - Spencer and all the Engines
 * "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Thomas, Rosie and all the Engines