Uploaded March 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Air Date: 10/7/1986

Narrator - Ringo Starr (UK)

Series 2 - Episode 16

The Fat Controller sends for an engine from Scotland to help with the goods work, but is surprised to be presented with twin engines, Donald and Douglas. He decides to give them numbers (Donald 9, Douglas 10), until he can decide which engine to send home. The twins try to be useful until a Spiteful Brake Van causes trouble for Douglas. Donald warns it to behave, but not before running into a signalbox, damaging his tender. James helps Douglas with the goods work, much to his disgust, until the Spiteful Brake Van starts causing trouble for him. Douglas offers to help James up the hill with a reluctant goods, but he pushes too hard and smashes the Spiteful Brake Van. The Fat Controller, surveying the damage and confusion the twins have made, cannot make up his mind about which engine to send away