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{{youmay|'''the episode'''|'''[[The Afternoon Tea Express (magazine story)|the magazine story]]''' or '''[[The Afternoon Tea Express (Chinese DVD)|the Chinese DVD]]'''}}
 
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{{Youmay|''the episode''|''[[The Afternoon Tea Express (magazine story)|the magazine story]] or [[The Afternoon Tea Express (Chinese DVD)|the Chinese DVD]]''}}
{{Quote|The visitors will wait a long time for their afternoon tea if Stephen is given the job!"<br/>"I'll have you know they used to call me the Rocket, because I was so speedy!"<br/>"Ha! Compared to a horse and cart, maybe!|Spencer and Stephen}}
 
{{Episode
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{{Infobox Episode
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|title1=The Afternoon Tea Express
|image=[[File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress50.png|250px]]
 
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|image1=File:TheAfternoonTeaExpresspromo.jpg
|episode name=The Afternoon Tea Express
 
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|writer=[[Laura Beaumont]] & [[Paul Larson]]
 
|director=[[David Baas]]
 
|director=[[David Baas]]
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|producer=
|producer=[[Robert Anderson]]<br/>(''[[Arc Productions]]'')<br/>[[Ian McCue]]<br/>[[Halim Jabbour]]<br/>(''[[HiT Entertainment]]'')
 
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* [[Ian McCue]] & [[Halim Jabbour]] {{Note|[[HiT Entertainment]]}}
|writer=[[Laura Beaumont]]<br/>[[Paul Larson]]
 
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* [[Robert Anderson]] {{Note|[[Jam Filled Toronto|Arc Productions]]}}
 
|narrator=[[Mark Moraghan]]
 
|narrator=[[Mark Moraghan]]
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|series=[[Series 17|17]]
|air date=October 22nd,<br/>2013 (''AUS'')<br/>November 17th,<br/>2013 (''JAP'')<br/>July 6th,<br/>2014 (''UK'')<br/>November 6th,<br/>2014 (''US'')
 
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|series_no=17.23
|previous episode=[[Gone Fishing (episode)|Gone Fishing]]
 
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|number=411
|next episode=[[The Smelly Kipper]]
 
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* 22 October 2013 {{Note|AUS}}
'''The Afternoon Tea Express''' is the twenty-third episode of the [[seventeenth season]].
 
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* 17 November 2013 {{Note|JPN}}
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* 27 March 2014 {{Note|HUN}}
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* 6 July 2014 {{Note|UK}}
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* 6 November 2014 {{Note|US}}
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* 30 April 2015 {{Note|GER}}
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* 5 October 2016 {{Note|KOR}}
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|previous=[[Gone Fishing (episode)|Gone Fishing]]
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|next=[[The Smelly Kipper]]}}
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{{Quote|The visitors will wait a long time for their afternoon tea if Stephen is given the job!"<br>"I'll have you know they used to call me the Rocket, because I was so speedy!"<br>"Ha! Compared to a horse and cart, maybe!|Spencer and Stephen}}
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'''The Afternoon Tea Express''' is the twenty-third episode of the [[Series 17|seventeenth series]].
   
 
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
Stephen becomes very excited when the Earl gives him the special job of collecting the ingredients for the afternoon teas at the Castle. But Spencer teases him about being too old and slow. Stephen is cross, but is soon steaming around Sodor picking up all the ingredients. But soon, Gordon puffs up behind him, and tells him to hurry up. He then pushes Stephen quickly along the rails up to the junction to Ulfstead Castle. Spencer is surprised to see Stephen back so soon.
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Stephen becomes very excited when the Earl gives him the special job of collecting the ingredients for the afternoon teas at the Castle. But Spencer teases him about being too old and slow. Stephen is cross but is soon steaming around Sodor picking up all the ingredients. But soon, Gordon puffs up behind him and tells him to hurry up. He then pushes Stephen quickly along the rails up to the junction to Ulfstead Castle. Spencer is surprised to see Stephen back so soon.
   
Stephen pretends to have been really fast. Over the next few days, Stephen is pushed by, Thomas, James and Emily, making him super fast. But when he is collecting jam for the Earl, Lady Hatt and the Fat Controller, none of the engines are there to push him. However, he finds Spencer, who pushes him the fastest up to the castle. But he goes so fast, he can't stop and biffs into the buffers at Ulfstead Castle, making the jam fly all over the Earl, Lady Hatt and the Fat Controller.
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Stephen pretends to have been really fast. Over the next few days, Stephen is pushed by, Thomas, James and Emily making him super fast. But when he is collecting jam for the Earl, Lady Hatt, and the Fat Controller, none of the engines is there to help push him. However, he finds Spencer, who pushes him the fastest up to the castle. But he goes so fast, he cannot stop and biffs into the buffers at Ulfstead Castle, making the four barrels of jam fly all over the Earl, Lady Hatt and the Fat Controller.
   
 
After he apologises, he takes the visitors to the castle on a tour of Sodor whilst getting more jam, and realises that going slow is not that bad after all.
 
After he apologises, he takes the visitors to the castle on a tour of Sodor whilst getting more jam, and realises that going slow is not that bad after all.
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* [[Gordon]]
 
* [[Gordon]]
 
* [[Spencer]]
 
* [[Spencer]]
* [[Stephen (steam engine)|Stephen]]
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* [[Stephen]]
 
* [[Sir Topham Hatt]]
 
* [[Sir Topham Hatt]]
 
* [[Lady Hatt]]
 
* [[Lady Hatt]]
 
* [[Sir Robert Norramby]]
 
* [[Sir Robert Norramby]]
* [[Thomas]] (''does not speak'')
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* [[Thomas]] {{Does not speak}}
* [[James]] (''does not speak'')
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* [[James]] {{Does not speak}}
* [[Emily]] (''does not speak'')
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* [[Emily]] {{Does not speak}}
* [[The Duke and Duchess of Boxford]] (''do not speak'')
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* [[The Duke and Duchess of Boxford]] {{Do not speak}}
* [[Millie]] (''cameo'')
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* [[Millie]] {{Cameo}}
* [[Annie and Clarabel]] (''cameo'')
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* [[Annie and Clarabel]] {{Cameo}}
* [[Cranky]] (''cameo'')
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* [[Cranky]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Sir Topham Hatt's Assistants]] {{Cameo}}
* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Teacher|The Teacher]] (''cameo'')
 
* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Bird Watcher|The Bird Watcher]] (''cameo'')
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Dairy Manager|The Dairy Manager]] {{Cameo}}
* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#Dowager Hatt's Friends|Dowager Hatt's Friends]] (''cameo)''
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Dairy Employees|The Dairy Employees]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Bakers|The Bakers]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Second Teacher|The Teacher]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Bird Watcher|The Bird Watcher]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#Dowager Hatt's Friends|Dowager Hatt's Friends]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Blond-haired Boy|The Blond-haired Boy]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Welsh Bird Watcher|The Welsh Bird Watcher]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#Barrow Football Fan|Barrow Football Fan]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Great Railway Show Judge|The Great Railway Show Judge]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Puppet Show Entertainers|The Female Puppet Show Entertainer]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Schoolchildren|A Schoolgirl]] {{Cameo}}
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* [[Big Mickey]] {{Note|faceless, cameo}}
   
== Locations==
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==Locations==
*[[Ulfstead Castle]]
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* [[Ulfstead Castle]]
*[[Sodor Dairy]]
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* [[Sodor Dairy]]
*[[Sodor Bakery]]
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* [[Sodor Bakery]]
*[[Wellsworth]]
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* [[Wellsworth]]
*[[Gordon's Hill]]
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* [[Gordon's Hill]]
*[[Brendam Docks]]
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* [[Brendam Docks]]
*[[Sodor Shipping Company]]
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* [[Sodor Shipping Company]]
*[[Animal Park]]
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* [[Sodor Animal Park|Animal Park]]
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* [[Coastal Cliffs]]
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==Cast==
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===UK===
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* [[Keith Wickham]] as Gordon and the Fat Controller
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* [[Matt Wilkinson]] as Spencer
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* [[Bob Golding]] as Stephen
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* [[Teresa Gallagher]] as Lady Hatt
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* [[Mike Grady]] as Sir Robert Norramby
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===US===
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* [[Kerry Shale]] as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
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* [[Glenn Wrage]] as Spencer
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* Bob Golding as Stephen
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* Teresa Gallagher as Lady Hatt
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* Mike Grady as Sir Robert Norramby
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
* Going by production order, this is the fourteenth episode of the seventeenth season.
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* Going by production order, this is the fourteenth episode of the seventeenth series.
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* This episode marks Spencer's only appearance in the seventeenth series.
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* This episode marks the last of two things:
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** Lady Hatt's last speaking role until the [[Series 20|twentieth series]] episode, [[Engine of the Future]].
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** The last appearance of the Sodor Bakery until the episode, [[All in Vain]].
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* Teresa Gallagher takes over the role as Lady Hatt from Jules De Jongh in the US dub.
   
 
==Goofs==
 
==Goofs==
* Stephen has his old, black funnel.
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* Stephen has his old, black funnel. Although, a rare picture shows him with his correct white funnel.
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* The open-topped carriage constantly changes height throughout the episode.
 
* Stephen's trucks swap places during his journey.
 
* Stephen's trucks swap places during his journey.
* The narrator uses the UK term "[[Troublesome Trucks|truck]]" at one point in the US narration.
 
 
* When Stephen and Gordon go over the camera, Gordon seems to be pulling less than six carriages when in the next few shots he has six carriages.
 
* When Stephen and Gordon go over the camera, Gordon seems to be pulling less than six carriages when in the next few shots he has six carriages.
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* When the narrator is talking about Stephen getting pushed by other engines, he says "The next day" even though Stephen's runs are weekly.
  +
* When the barrels of jam fly onto the platform at Ulfstead Castle, the narrator says that the barrels "smashed to the ground." However, the barrels never broke, they remained completely intact.
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* There is a scene where Lady Hatt is not covered in jam.
   
 
==Merchandise==
 
==Merchandise==
===[[Take-n-Play]]===
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* [[Take-n-Play]] - Stephen's Sticky Delivery
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* [[:Category:Books|Books]] - [[The Rocket Returns]]
* Stephen's Sticky Delivery
 
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* [[Magazines|Magazine stories]] - [[The Afternoon Tea Express (magazine story)|The Afternoon Tea Express]]
 
===[[:Category:Books|Books]]===
 
* [[The Rocket Returns]]
 
   
 
==In Other Languages==
 
==In Other Languages==
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{{Other Languages
{| class="wikitable"
 
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|DUT=Thee met een Sneltreinvaart
! Language
 
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|GRE=Το απογευματινό εξπρές του τσαγιού
! Name
 
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|NOR=Ettermiddagsteekspressen
! Meaning
 
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|JPN=アフタヌーンティーきゅうこう
|-
 
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|SPA=El Expreso del Té de la Tarde
| '''Dutch'''
 
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|POL=Herbatkowy ekspres
| Thee met een Sneltreinvaart
 
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|HUN=A délutáni tea expressz
| Tea with an Express Speed
 
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|HEB=רכבת של שעת התה
|-
 
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|ITA=L'Espresso del Tè delle Cinque
| '''Norwegian'''
 
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|UKR=Експрес-Підвечірок
| Ettermiddagsteekspressen
 
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|RUS=Послеобеденное чаепитие
| The Afternoon Tea Express
 
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|POR=O Expresso do Chá da tarde
|-
 
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|RUM=Ceaiul de După-Amiază
| '''Japanese'''
 
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|CZE=Expres odpoledního čaje
| アフタヌーンティーきゅうこう
 
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|GER=Die Kaffeefahrt
| The Afternoon Tea Express
 
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|THA=รถด่วนน้ำชายามบ่าย
|-
 
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|LAV=Pēcpusdienā tēja express
| '''Spanish'''
 
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|KOR=티타임 특급열차
| El Expreso del Té de la Tarde
 
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|FRE=L'Express Du Goûter des Elfes
| The Express of Afternoon Tea
 
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|CHI=下午茶特快车
|-
 
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}}
| '''Polish'''
 
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==Home Media Releases==
| Herbatkowy ekspres
 
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{{Scroll box|
| The Tea Express
 
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===UK===
|}
 
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* [[Spills and Thrills]]
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* [[The Complete Series 17]]
   
==Gallery==
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====DVD Packs====
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* [[Special Edition Box Set]]
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* [[10 DVD Boxset (2014)]]
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* [[Limited Offer DVD Box Set]]
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpressNorwegiantitlecard.PNG|Norwegian title card
 
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File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress1.png
 
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===AUS/NL===
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress2.png
 
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* Spills and Thrills
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====DVD Boxsets====
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* [[2 DVD Boxset]]
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===US===
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress7.png
 
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* Spills and Thrills
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress8.png
 
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* [[Season 17 (Digital Download)]]
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===CHN===
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress55.png
 
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* [[The Afternoon Tea Express (Chinese DVD)]]
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress11.png
 
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===THA===
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress12.png
 
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* [[Henry's Hero (Thai DVD)]]
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress13.png
 
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===GER===
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress14.png
 
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* [[The Ghost-Express]]
File:TheAfternoonTeaExpress58.png
 
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}}
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[[Category:Episodes]]
 
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[[Category:Season 17 episodes]]
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[[Category:Series 17 episodes]]
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[[Category:Theatrical releases]]

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This article is about the episode. You may be looking for the magazine story or the Chinese DVD.

“The visitors will wait a long time for their afternoon tea if Stephen is given the job!"
"I'll have you know they used to call me the Rocket, because I was so speedy!"
"Ha! Compared to a horse and cart, maybe!”
― Spencer and Stephen

The Afternoon Tea Express is the twenty-third episode of the seventeenth series.

Plot

Stephen becomes very excited when the Earl gives him the special job of collecting the ingredients for the afternoon teas at the Castle. But Spencer teases him about being too old and slow. Stephen is cross but is soon steaming around Sodor picking up all the ingredients. But soon, Gordon puffs up behind him and tells him to hurry up. He then pushes Stephen quickly along the rails up to the junction to Ulfstead Castle. Spencer is surprised to see Stephen back so soon.

Stephen pretends to have been really fast. Over the next few days, Stephen is pushed by, Thomas, James and Emily making him super fast. But when he is collecting jam for the Earl, Lady Hatt, and the Fat Controller, none of the engines is there to help push him. However, he finds Spencer, who pushes him the fastest up to the castle. But he goes so fast, he cannot stop and biffs into the buffers at Ulfstead Castle, making the four barrels of jam fly all over the Earl, Lady Hatt and the Fat Controller.

After he apologises, he takes the visitors to the castle on a tour of Sodor whilst getting more jam, and realises that going slow is not that bad after all.

Characters

Locations

Cast

UK

US

  • Kerry Shale as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
  • Glenn Wrage as Spencer
  • Bob Golding as Stephen
  • Teresa Gallagher as Lady Hatt
  • Mike Grady as Sir Robert Norramby

Trivia

  • Going by production order, this is the fourteenth episode of the seventeenth series.
  • This episode marks Spencer's only appearance in the seventeenth series.
  • This episode marks the last of two things:
  • Teresa Gallagher takes over the role as Lady Hatt from Jules De Jongh in the US dub.

Goofs

  • Stephen has his old, black funnel. Although, a rare picture shows him with his correct white funnel.
  • The open-topped carriage constantly changes height throughout the episode.
  • Stephen's trucks swap places during his journey.
  • When Stephen and Gordon go over the camera, Gordon seems to be pulling less than six carriages when in the next few shots he has six carriages.
  • When the narrator is talking about Stephen getting pushed by other engines, he says "The next day" even though Stephen's runs are weekly.
  • When the barrels of jam fly onto the platform at Ulfstead Castle, the narrator says that the barrels "smashed to the ground." However, the barrels never broke, they remained completely intact.
  • There is a scene where Lady Hatt is not covered in jam.

Merchandise

In Other Languages

Language Title
Chinese 下午茶特快车
Czech Expres odpoledního čaje
Dutch Thee met een Sneltreinvaart
French L'Express Du Goûter des Elfes
German Die Kaffeefahrt
Greek Το απογευματινό εξπρές του τσαγιού
Hebrew רכבת של שעת התה
Hungarian A délutáni tea expressz
Italian L'Espresso del Tè delle Cinque
Japanese アフタヌーンティーきゅうこう
Korean 티타임 특급열차
Latvian Pēcpusdienā tēja express
Norwegian Ettermiddagsteekspressen
Polish Herbatkowy ekspres
Portuguese O Expresso do Chá da tarde
Romanian Ceaiul de După-Amiază
Russian Послеобеденное чаепитие
Spanish El Expreso del Té de la Tarde
Thai รถด่วนน้ำชายามบ่าย
Ukrainian Експрес-Підвечірок

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