Edward the Very Useful Engine

"Duck should play with other ducks, 'coz he's no good at pulling trucks!"

- The trucks

"Edward the Really Useful Engine" is a sixth season episode.

Plot
Percy is concerned when the big engines begin saying Edward needs "retiring" and when his driver tells the Fat Controller Edward is sent to show Stepney around a new loop line. Duck does Edward's work, but the trucks hold him back on Gordon's Hill, and not even Gordon can push them up. Edward is sent to help, and when he helps both up no one says anything more of Edward being "retired".

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * Percy
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * James (does not speak)
 * Duck (does not speak)
 * Stepney (does not speak)
 * The mail van (cameo)

Goofs

 * Duck has trouble with the trucks, but in "Duck takes Charge" the trucks learnt that playing tricks on Duck was a mistake.
 * Gordon was only a few minutes behind Duck, so even if Duck hadn't stopped Gordon would have either crashed into Duck later or have had to slow to follow him.
 * When Edward, Gordon and Duck arrive at Knapford, Duck is frowning as if he did something wrong, but he didn't; he couldn't help stalling on Gordon's Hill.
 * In the American narration, listen closely after the narrator says, "Sir Topham Hatt spoke severely to Gordon." A voice can be faintly heard saying "Take six."
 * Stepney has Skarloey's whistle sound.
 * The description of this episode on the "Brave Little Engines" DVD/VHS suggests that the Fat Controller actually agreed that Edward was old and needed to be "retired" - stating that he realised Edward would need to be called back during the emergency, which was not the case.