A Smooth Ride

A Smooth Ride is a tenth season episode.

Plot
Sir Handel has returned from the quarries, but while he is pulling a train up a hill he discovers he has become very bumpy. Sir Handel gets Peter Sam to help him, but when he arrives on time he is told to take some sheep. This time Duncan helps him up the hills, but at the Transfer Yards Sir Handel is told he is to take the Thin Controller and his wife on a picnic on Culdee Fell. Sir Handel starts bumping on the way up and the Thin Controller finds out about Sir Handel's skulduggery, but has fitters to fix Sir Handel's bumps.

Characters

 * Sir Handel
 * Peter Sam
 * Thomas
 * Mr. Percival
 * Duncan (does not speak)
 * Mighty Mac (do not speak)
 * Mrs. Percival (does not speak)

Trivia

 * Inside the coach two real life London Midland Scottish Railway posters are seen.

Goofs

 * When the narrator reads the episode title, Sir Handel takes the same route and trucks as he does when he delivers the apples.
 * When Peter Sam buffers up behind Sir Handel's train his buffers aren't level with those of the truck.
 * Mighty Mac mysteriously turns around while taking Sir Handel to the Transfer Yards.
 * When Sir Handel's wheels spin one derails.
 * The narrator said that the children in his passenger cars cheered, but Sir Handel had only one coach.
 * The narrator says "shutter" instead of "shudder".
 * Peter Sam shouldn't have been traveling so close behind Sir Handel.
 * The narrator said that Sir Handel had been in the slate quarries all summer, but the slate quarry had been seen in previous episodes with Sir Handel nowhere in sight. In addition, episodes set in the winter have been seen since his last appearance.
 * Sir Handel is said to be one of Sodor's oldest engines, but in fact several other characters are far older than him, like Skarloey, Rheneas, Duke and Edward.
 * In the US narration, the trucks of apples are referred to as such, at one point.