Tenders and Turntables

"No fear. I'm not so fat as you!"

- James laughing at Gordon

Tenders and Turntables is the fifteenth episode of the first season.

Plot
The big engines do not like having to shunt their own coaches, and when Gordon and James have trouble on the turntable one windy day the three lose patience and go on strike.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Henry (does not speak)
 * Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
 * Bertie (cameo)

Locations

 * Vicarstown Sheds
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Elsbridge

Trivia

 * This episode is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, Troublesome Engines.
 * In the Railway Series, Henry has a mishap with a circus elephant and that, along with the problems in this episode, causes Gordon, Henry, and James to go on strike. In the television series, Henry's mishap doesn't happen until Season 4.
 * A freeze frame is used when Thomas talks to Gordon about pulling his train backwards
 * A behind the scene photo from this episode shows that the Marklin engine was used.
 * In the George Carlin version, James whistles after being spun on the turntable. This is absent in both Ringo Starr versions.

Goofs

 * When the engines says, "We get no rest! We get no rest!", there is one orange coach behind Henry. But in the next scene when the coaches say, "You're lazy and slack! You're lazy and slack!" Henry is coupled up to three coaches.
 * When the narrator says, "The turntables at both ends of the line...", Henry is shunting the same coaches as he was when James came past shunting his.
 * James' brake coach is backwards when he rushes through Elsbridge.
 * In the close-up of James spinning on the turntable a crewmember's face is reflected in his paintwork.
 * When the turntable stops spinning it connects the last berth on the right, but when James reverses the turntable leads to the middle line.

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