Toby And The Light Rail Train

Toby is a tram engine who’s bell shines like gold. He is both square in looks and nature. Every engine no matter how old, wants to be Really Useful and once nearly being scrapped, Toby is always happy to work. Well, this day was a day that Toby was able to make that happen. Diesel, Sidney and Paxton have been behaving themselves lately, so Sir Topham Hatt decided to allow the three brothers to pull coaches on Toby’s line as passengers on his line were growing leaps and bounds. But the way Diesel was talking to Toby at Dryaw Station, you might have thought that Sir Topham Hatt did this for a different reason.

DIESEL: You don’t understand, Toby! We diesels are “revolutionary” and have a position to keep up. Sir Topham Hatt degrading diesels like this by making us work on the branch line. It’s…….It’s…..well it’s not the proper thing.

Toby didn’t answer and chugged away. Later that night, the three Class 08s had an indignation meeting in their three spaced shed.

DIESEL: It’s a shame to treat diesels like this. The steamies work hard and get the privilege of pulling special trains such as the express and the flying kipper. We work hard and what do we get promoted to doing? Pulling old passenger trains on the branch line. It’s disgraceful. Ugh! Listen you two! We’ll do it tomorrow! Sir Topham Hatt will look stupid.

The next morning, there was chaos at Tidmouth Station. The passengers began to complain. The stationmaster came and spoke to Sir Topham Hatt about what had happened.

STATIONMASTER: It’s a riot in the station. Diesel, Sidney and Paxton are sulking. There is no train and the passengers are saying this is a bad railway.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Over my living body! We aren’t having that happen.

Diesel, Sidney and Paxton refused to move.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Come on, Paxton. It’s your turn to do the Tidmouth Corridor Line.

PAXTON: Uh…..well……..I

DIESEL: Paxton’s not going! We won’t work on branch lines like common steam engines do. That’s what engines like Thomas, Percy and Toby are for. We are revolutionary diesels. We want to pull grand trains like the express and the flying kipper.

SIDNEY: We won’t….uh…..what was I going to say?

DIESEL: What Sidney is trying to say is that Diesel’s don’t work on branch lines.

SIDNEY: Yeah!

SIR TOPHAM HATT: We’ll see about that!

Sir Topham Hatt got into his car and felt depressed.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: The line has never been the same since the quantity of passengers on Toby’s line extended.

Sir Topham Hatt found Toby in the yard fetching his coach, Henrietta.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Add three more coaches to that train, Toby and tell Brandon I said get five more coaches. We have a passenger load on your line today, Toby!

TOBY: Yes Sir!

And that’s what Toby did! So Toby and Brandon fetched their coaches and for the rest of that day, things went as usual. Amazingly, Brandon actually got the passengers to calm down. One of Brandon‘s passengers was Lady Hatt, Sir Topham Hatt‘s wife. She spoke to one of the passengers.

LADY HATT: You know for a diesel, he sure is a cool guy.

Brandon winked and oiled away a few seconds after Toby. The next morning, Brandon brought five red passenger coaches into Arlesdale Station to start his journey when Diesel, Sidney and Paxton roared by hissing a usual. Sir Topham Hatt and Lady Hatt were there.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Bless me!

BRANDON: They hate me, Sir! They say that diesels don’t work on branch lines and last night, they called me Double Bubble Body. I’m not colored blind am I Sir? Do I look pink to you!

Sir Topham Hatt and Lady Hatt laughed hard.

LADY HATT: No sweetheart. You absolutely have lovely blue paint and we are all proud of you.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Aside from Mavis and Salty, you have the best attitude of any diesel I’ve ever had. All the same, I couldn’t help but notice that you had to add an extra coach to your train because you couldn‘t fit all the passengers. The residence of the Arlesdale End Corridor Branch Line is going up rapidly. We do need another engine here. One that can take on the work herself.

BRANDON: What sort of engine?

SIR TOPHAM HATT: A rather unusual one. Wait and see.

Sir Topham Hatt went to a workshop and was showed all sorts of multiple units. He had decided to let his grandchildren come with him. Bridget pointed to a Settebello train from Italy.

BRIDGET HATT: Grandpa, let’s get that!

STEPHEN HATT: Yuk!

The Settebello looked insulted.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Stephen, you’ve offended it! Bridget dear, I don’t think we can fit a Settebello on Toby’s line. His line doesn’t have wires.

STEPHEN HATT: What about this train, grandpa!

And he pointed at a Tube Train from the London Underground system on the mainland.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: I don’t know about a subway, Stephen. They make too much noise and it might disturb the new residents of Arlesdale.

They at last saw a Dockland Light Rail EMU.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: That’s the one!

Stephen and Bridget agreed.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: If I choose you, will you work hard?

CECE: Yes Sir! Please Sir!

BRIDGET HATT: Let’s call her CeCe.

CECE: I like that name.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: CeCe, it shall be then.

Sir Topham Hatt brought CeCe to the yard.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Toby, this is CeCe. Can you show her everything?

So Toby showed CeCe what she had to do and they had a nice evening. Then Paxton came up and was about to give CeCe a load of thick black smoke. CeCe blew her horn and screamed.

CECE: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Paxton jumped and ran back to the sheds. Toby gazed with admiration for the light rail unit.

TOBY: How beautifully you shooed him! I can shoo like that!

CECE: Oh! It’s nothing. You have to shoo loudly so you can be heard.

Soon Toby introduced CeCe to Brandon and soon they became fast friends as well. Toby helped Thomas on the Knapford-Ffarquhar Branch Line greeting each other as they passed by. CeCe and Brandon worked on the Quarry Line. There were fewer trains, but the passengers didn’t mind. They knew that three other engines were having a lesson. Diesel, Sidney and Paxton were cold, lonely and miserable. They wish now they hadn’t been so silly.

DIESEL: I think we might be done guys!

The other two diesels agreed. The next day, Sir Topham Hatt came to their shed.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: I don’t know what’s gotten into you three, but I am sure you know. You have done well so I thought it might be reasonable to promote you three. There are always going to be engines who get bigger jobs than you, but there are engines who have less too. I know you only want to prove to be Really Useful, but your types are not built to handle heavy duties as Gordon and Henry’s are. You should be thankful for what you can do and stop worrying about what you can’t do.

Sir Topham Hatt walked away and turned back around.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: Another thing too! This diesel engines are revolutionary and don’t work on branch line business must stop. Understand?

The three Class 08s promised and were let out of the sheds to start their work.

Meanwhile, Toby was at a signal waiting for the signalman to change the points. Usually everything goes like clockwork, but today there was trouble. Toby usually rang his bell to warn the signalman to switch the points, but today, he was so excited to work that he was rather careless and forgot. So he waited…..and waited…….and did some more waiting, but nothing happened. Just then, he heard a whistle. It was Diesel coming his way with three coaches. He saw Toby and blew his horn loudly.

DIESEL: Get out of my way!

Diesel stopped just inches from Toby. Toby was so scared that he backed down very fast. He went dozens of places backwards. He glided backwards through Tidmouth Station. Then screeched through Henry’s tunnel backwards. He went up and down Gordon’s Hill. The signalman who had heard about the incident shouted:

SIGNALMAN: ALL TRAFFIC HALTED!!!

Toby kept on going and going!

TOBY: I want to stop! I want to stop! I have stopped!

He said as he hit a large lump of earth. Sir Topham Hatt came aboard CeCe to help.

CECE: Wow! That was cool! Can you teach me that?

TOBY: I will never do this again.

SIR TOPHAM HATT: I hope you will remember to ring your bell next time, Toby!

TOBY: I will, Sir!

Toby and CeCe are now good friends. CeCe worked so hard that Sir Topham Hatt gave her a new coat of paint. She chose periwinkle. The two allies keep each other very busy and sometimes does all the work to give Toby a rest. They both agree that Diesel and his brothers can be trouble.

Special Guest Stars

 * Brandon Walker as Brandon
 * Ariana Grande as CeCe

Trivia

 * This story is a cross-parody of three Original Railway Series stories in one. Them being, Tenders and Turntables, Trouble In The Shed, and Percy Runs Away.
 * Three real trains are seen; The Tube Train, The Settebello. The third one being the Dockland Light Railway's EMU who later becomes CeCe.

Goofs

 * It is unlikely that the signalman would not have heard Toby coming.