- "Fancy jumping at a silly old crane! Scaredy little engine!"
- ― James
Wharf and Peace is the nineteenth episode of the tenth series.
Plot
Skarloey enjoys puffing past his favourite places along the Narrow Gauge Railway, such as the lake and the viaduct. However, he occasionally is assigned to go to the wharf which is not his favourite place, because it is very loud and noisy from the machinery and other trains. He feels smaller there and does not know anyone's name.
One day, Skarloey is delivering trucks full of flour to the wharf. The trucks see a chance for mischief by wiggling, giggling and biffing him several times. He is then startled when some pipes from a crane drop near him, causing his trucks to hit the buffers and spill the flour. James teases Skarloey over what has happened, which makes Skarloey upset and feels smaller than he did before. Even though Thomas tells Skarloey that James was only teasing him, the trucks insult Skarloey and laugh at him. He feels pathetic and admits that he might actually be a "scaredy engine", so he steams away.
Skarloey's next job is to collect the farmer's prize bull and take him to the wharf. He is very worried until he reaches the rickety bridge, where Rusty has stopped on the other side as he is afraid of heights from the bridge. Rusty asks Skarloey what to do, and Skarloey says he does not look down and puffs hard while crossing the bridge. Rusty thanks him and begins to safely cross the bridge.
Skarloey then meets Duncan at a dip in the track caused by earlier water damage, where water has covered the tracks. Duncan is worried as he thinks that going on through would extinguish his firebox, but Skarloey says he moves slowly and does not make any waves. He then proceeds to do so, and Duncan does the same thing, for which he thanks Skarloey.
Later that day, Skarloey nears the wharf, but then spots several logs tumbling free down the slope from a sawmill. Rheneas enters from the other way. Skarloey tries to whistle a warning, but Rheneas does not hear him so Skarloey steams forward quickly. The logs hit and dent his boiler but he does not derail and luckily nobody is hurt. Rheneas is happy to be saved from a nasty accident, but Skarloey still looks sad. He tells Rheneas about his earlier incident at the Wharf and claims that scaredy engines can no longer be useful. Surprised, Rheneas tells him that he had just helped his friends as well as himself and that he is the bravest engine he knows. Skarloey is doubtful at these words since he still has to make his delivery to the wharf.
When Skarloey arrives at the wharf, he soon realises what Rheneas said is right in that he had helped his three friends earlier and then admits that he is indeed the bravest engine. He says hello to everyone, and the workmen say hello back to his delight and plucks up courage. However, Skarloey sees the trucks that are still up to their old tricks and try to play tricks on him, so he immediately threatens them into behaving.
Skarloey's bull is safely unloaded, while Thomas and James are impressed and congratulate him for putting great effort and picking his bravery up. He is very proud and happy that the Wharf is now his new favourite place with plenty of friends.
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Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the twentieth episode of the tenth series.
- This episode's title is a pun on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.
- This episode marks:
- The first and only time since the fifth series that narrow gauge trucks have faces.
- The only episode of the HiT-model series to only feature characters originating from The Railway Series and the last time this happens until the twentieth series episode, Love Me Tender.
- Woodland Way's last appearance in the model era and its last appearance until the eighteenth series.
- The US dub of this episode was never released on home media.
- The Troublesome Trucks saying "scaredy engine, scaredy engine!" to Skarloey is almost the same line Diesel said to Thomas when he was scared in the ninth series episode, Flour Power. Coincidentally, both episodes were written by Abi Grant.
- For this episode, a dented saddle tank and cab was built for Skarloey's large-scale model in the scene where he was hit in the side by runaway logs.
Goofs
- The shot of Skarloey when the trucks start to bump him is a reversed footage of him jolting backwards after the crane dropped the pipes, as the steam is heading back towards him.
- When Skarloey leaves the wharf, the tracks on the bridge bounce up and down as he travels over them.
- When Rusty crosses the bridge, he does not take his trucks and the bridge sinks and comes back up.
- When Skarloey is hit by the logs, not only his rear driving wheels come off the rails, but his steam platform and Rheneas' are visible.
- Skarloey has Duncan's whistle sound when he warns Rheneas.
- None of the engines have crews.
- In the close-up of Skarloey's whistle, he has a gold ring around his left (viewers' right) cab window, which does not appear in any other scene.
- When the narrator says "He feels very small there," a hole in the set can be seen in front of Skarloey.
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#02 A Smooth Ride | #12 Toby's New Shed | #22 Thomas and the Colours |
#03 Thomas and the Jet Plane | #13 Big Strong Henry | #23 Thomas and the Birthday Mail |
#04 Percy and the Funfair | #14 Sticky Toffee Thomas | #24 Duncan's Bluff |
#05 The Green Controller | #15 Which Way Now? | #25 Missing Trucks |
#06 Duncan Drops a Clanger | #16 Thomas and the Shooting Star | #26 Thomas and the Treasure |
#07 Thomas' Tricky Tree | #17 Edward Strikes Out | #27 James the Second Best |
#08 Toby's Afternoon Off | #18 Topped Off Thomas | #28 Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out |
#09 It's Good to Be Gordon | #19 Wharf and Peace | |
#10 Seeing the Sights | #20 Thomas' Frosty Friend | |