Today Henry was feeling sick as he sat in the sheds. His wheels ached from pulling goods trains and his siderods felt like they were about to fall off.

"Oh dear, I hope Henry feels better," worried James as he waited to collect passengers from Knapford.

"I'm surprised the James the Grand would care about anyone else," joked Thomas as he pulled into the station.

"I'm worried about myself. Whenever Henry is out the Fat Controller always has me pull his smelly fish trucks," complained James.

"They're called the 'Flying Kipper'," said Sir Topham Hatt as he arrived, "And yes James, you must report to Brendam Docks tonight to pick it up." and he drove off leaving a complaining James and an annoyed Thomas.

That evening, James arrived at Brendam Docks grumbling about 'stupid smelly fish'. He found a long line of vans packed with fish of all sorts caught off the coast.

"Here ya go Red!" called Porter as he shunted the last van into place, "Enjoy the run. We've got extra vans, this seasons been pretty good."

"Aye me hearty," added Salty as James backed down on the train, " Currents be bringin' in huge shoals of the silvery swimmers,"

"You got that right, " said Arthur as he shunted even more vans in place behind James' train. "Oh and do be careful, the trucks have been extra rowdy today."

A brakevan was secured to the end of the train and James gave the vans a good hard bump to get them starting. He steamed away into the night feeling very undignified to be pulling fish.

"Oi!" screamed the vans, "This fiery monster is bumping us,"

"Silence!" ordered James as he braked hard, sending the trucks bumping into each other.

The hurt and offended trucks soon quietly conspired to get back at James.

James' run was going great. In fact he was impressed. The trucks behaved and soon the train was so light that he no longer struggled to start and stop. But just because it felt like there were less vans didn't mean there were less vans.

James soon found this out, he steamed out of Wellsworth.

"Be careful!" called Edward from his shed "Those trucks will try to hold you back!"

The red engine paid the blue engine no mind, "I can handle them," he retorted.

But suddenly the rails started to get steeper and steeper. James was climbing up Gordon's Hill with a very heavy train! He suddenly remembered that he had bumped the vans earlier that night.

"Maybe we can go and get Edward to be a banker," wondered James.

"I don't think that we have enough time!" cried the driver looking back. The vans had broken free! They cheered and laughed as they sped down the hill out of control.

"Looks like somebody ordered the fish to-go," quipped the driver, he soon was slapped in the back of the head by his fireman.

James raced backwards down the hill after his runaway train.

Unfortunately Percy was running up the line with mail but he soon saw a brakevan growing closer and closer. This could only mean one thing. If Percy didn't get out of the way, he would be crushed!

"Run away! Run away!" yelled Percy as he wheezed past Wellsworth.

The alarm sounded at the station as everyone woke up to stop The Kipper. Men were everyone phoning upcoming trains to warn them and set the signals to danger. Workmen ran to switch the points to unused sidings.

But Percy didn't know this and he rolled right into an earth bank.

"Deja vu, I presume," he mused but soon snapped out of it when he saw a horrible sight. The Flying Kipper was going to crash into him!

"Oh no! Horrors!" screamed Percy as the brakevan smashed into him and shoved the mail vans and fish vans off the rails.

Soon the Fat Controller arrived to assess the damage at Wellsworth. He sighed as Edward arrived with Rocky and Henry came to take away the unhurt trucks.

"So James, I hear that you and Percy got into a 'little accident' he began.

"I can hardly call it little," squeaked Percy from underneath a pile of dirt and mail.

"Anyways, we can't blame anyone really. You were given way to many trucks from the docks, but you bumped the trucks, and although you brushed off Edward, he should have given assistance. Now I hope that all of you will think of this event long and hard so this won't happen again." he turned away to let the rescue team do their job.

The engines would definitely never forget this terrible crash for a long, long time.