Dramatis Personae
THOMAS: Cheeky NWR #1 tank engine
JAMES: Vain NWR #5 tender engine
TRUCKS: Demonic freight wagons
MERLIN: Railway wizard
LEXI: Hopeless castaway
THEO: Freak child
FRANKIE: Seductress kidnapper, second-in-command of the Steelworks
HURRICANE: Head engine of the Steelworks
BERESFORD: Creepy crane
SIR TOPHAM HATT: Controller of the NWR
HENRY: Powerful NWR #
ROSIE: Vicarstown's station pilot, NWR #37
HIRO, PERCY, GORDON, EMILY, EDWARD: Friends of Thomas
Prologue
The Isle of Sodor is the home of steam.
North Western rails keep engines left for dead,
On this railway steam engines keep their dream.
They fear no scrapyard when they fall to bed.
The branch lines serveth fishing villages,
The docks, the quarries, farms, and castles.
Tank engines work hard with their carriages
Or manage freight cars with little hassle.
Then there's the main line, Knapford in the west,
Past stations to the eastern Vicarstown.
The Wild Nor'Wester pulls so many guests,
This massive railway is the island's crown.
But across the Vicarstown Bridge lies the mainland.
Where steam and even diesels have all just been banned.