Don't Stop is a song from the twenty-third series episode, Steam Team to the Rescue. The first verse plays as the steam engines perform various jobs on the railway in place of the incapacitated diesels. A reprise is heard as the Steam Team help sort out the trouble at the docks.
Lyrics
- Thomas: Don't stop, keep on moving!
- Steam's hot, it keeps us cruising!
- Helping each other every day!
- With extra loads of cargo
- Moving up and down the tracks!
- We're grunting and we're shunting
- There's no time to relax!
- Thomas and Henry: We have to keep on keeping on
- Like a well-oiled machine!
- Thomas: With the diesels out of action
- Thomas and Rebecca: There's no time for daydreams!
- Thomas, Nia, Annie and Clarabel: Don't stop! Let's work together!
- 'Cause our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
- There's nothing standing in our way!
- Rebecca: (spoken) It's not even noon and I'm already exhausted!
- Thomas: (spoken) Keep going! You're doing great!
- James: (spoken) Looks like it's another trip to the washdown for me!
- Thomas: We're doing our best!
- Thomas and Rebecca: We work as a team!
- Thomas, James and Rebecca: We don't stop to rest!
- Thomas, James, Emily and Rebecca: We've got the power of steam!
- All: Don't stop! Keep on moving!
- Steam's hot! It keeps us cruising!
- Helping each other every day!
- Don't stop! Let's work together!
- 'Cause our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
- There's nothing standing in our way!
- No not today! No not today!
- There's nothing in our way!
- No not today! And we won't stop!
Reprise
- All: Don't stop! Keep on moving!
- The Steam Team! Keeps on cruising!
- Helping each other every day!
- When a best friend is in trouble
- None of us will rest!
- Engines helping engines
- Using every ounce that's left!
- Pushing to the finish line
- Yeah, we'll keep on keeping on!
- When the Steam Team works together
- We're always pulling strong!
- Don't stop! Let's work together!
- Because our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
- There's nothing standing in our way!
- Thomas: (spoken) Percy, I'm so sorry I didn't come to help you sooner like I promised!
- Percy: (spoken) No worries, Thomas! I forgive you!
- All: We're not giving up!
- Gonna see this long day through!
- The moon lights our way
- Until the end is in view!
- Don't stop! Keep on moving!
- The Steam Team! Keeps on cruising!
- Helping each other every day!
- Don't stop! Let's work together!
- We're the Steam Team! We'll go on forever!
- There's nothing standing in our way!
- No not today! No not today!
- There's nothing in our way!
- No not today! And we won't stop!
Characters
- Thomas
- Edward
- Henry
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Toby
- Emily
- Caitlin
- Nia
- Rebecca
- Annie and Clarabel
- Rosie (cameo)
- Stanley (cameo)
- 'Arry and Bert (cameo)
- Luke (cameo)
- Merrick (cameo)
- Owen (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt (cameo)
Reprise
- Thomas
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Emily
- Nia
- Rebecca
- Belle (cameo)
- Flynn (cameo)
- Harold (cameo)
- Butch (cameo)
- Captain (cameo)
- Cranky (cameo)
- Carly (cameo)
- Big Mickey (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt (cameo)
Locations
- Knapford Station Yard
- Knapford Yards
- Crosby Tunnel
- Knapford
- Blue Mountain Quarry
- Wellsworth
- Gordon's Hill
- The Washdown (mentioned)
Reprise
Cast
UK
- John Hasler as Thomas
- Keith Wickham as Edward, Henry and Gordon (Kerry Shale as Gordon and Henry during the last 2 verses)
- Rob Rackstraw as James and Toby
- Nigel Pilkington as Percy
- Yvonne Grundy as Nia
- Rachael Miller as Rebecca
- Teresa Gallagher as Emily, Annie and Clarabel
- Jules de Jongh as Caitlin
US
- Joseph May as Thomas
- William Hope as Edward and Toby
- Kerry Shale as Henry and Gordon
- Rob Rackstraw as James
- Christopher Ragland as Percy
- Jules de Jongh as Emily and Caitlin
- Yvonne Grundy as Nia
- Rachael Miller as Rebecca
- Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
* indicates not in reprise
Trivia
- This is the first series-original song to be sung by the characters in a television series episode.
- Unlike Big World! Big Adventures!, Yvonne Grundy, who performs as Nia's speaking voice, sings in this song, while in Big World! Big Adventures!, Patricia Kihoro performed Nia's singing roles.
Goofs
- In the UK version, James has his US voice when he starts singing and Henry's US voice can be heard after he and Gordon sing "Helping each other every day."
- 'Arry is seen travelling on narrow gauge track at the Blue Mountain Quarry, despite being a standard gauge engine.