Can we all take a moment to think about just how much legal trouble Bulgy and his crew would have been in? They're looking at reckless endangerment charges, possible traffic violations for the bridge, and of course, multiple counts of fraud. Considering Bulgy's attitude and lack of remorse, I wouldn't be surprised to see a judge throwing the book at him for a 10+ year sentence.
Bulgy really got his comeuppance after being wedged under that bridge. But also, the way his face was designed here was really weird, so the TV version of it was quite sort of better. Also also, it's cool how Donald's Duck shows up on the platform in that one scene.
I love the face designs in the railway series where the face is incorporated into the vehicle like most of the diesels and bulstrode and mallard and stuff like that
@@roymackenzie-jy4lreh, it’s just too inconsistent, I say Caroline was the only exception because it makes her eyes look like an old grandma’s glasses but it’s also the typical anthropomorphic car design of the era
Seen the real Bulgy at The Nene Valley Railway. Also been to The South Devon Railway where I rode behind Duck’s real life counterpart. It is one of my favourite heritage railways of all time.
Duck felt mad of such a idea. Duck: We had a friend called Bertie and he is a bus he likes the railway. Sometimes he teases us about it, but he doesn’t want to see it ripped up. Bulgy: Pah, nonsense, I know Bertie, he is too small in size to be in any use.
@@sarodanadian6496 I doubt it. That's only shown in the last illustration scrawled on him unevenly. That's more likely graffiti. Oliver got the nickname from his license plate which reads BLG Y and his shape.
My dad always felt really sorry for Bulgy as he looks very sorry for himself in the last picture. I like to think that the Sodor Bus Preservation Group rescued him in the end. I hope he learned his lesson. I think his being red and rude showed the Reverend Awdry's political views. He said "Come the revolution, railways will be ripped up..." Since then the cars have trampled on the buses' remains. In Britain except for Sodor, "bustitution" was brought in after Beeching. But in recent years there has been Carstitution, with cars replacing buses. The trouble is, you can't catch cars.
The story that inspired bulgy is a bit weirder. In 1958, an old(and very unfortunate)Brighton double decker trolleybus(or trackless tram depending on who you are talking to)was being towed through Sussex to a breaker's yard, because it was no longer needed by the city of Brighton. on it's travels the bus encountered a bridge, the tow truck pulling it went under just fine, and the bridge clearance was 14 feet 9 inches, allowing for most double decked buses. However the tow truck driver failed to account for one tiny little thing. Since it was a trolleybus, it had a pair of trolley poles(pantographs) on the roof to draw current from the overhead lines, to power an electric motor, which drives the wheels. Unfortunately for said tow truck driver, the trolley poles got snagged under the bridge. It was finally freed after 3 hours, all causing a holdup on the railway tracks above. The bus made it to the junkyard, and was broken up. Ironically, the bus had an advertisement on it's rear saying, "what's your hurry"
4:20 I feel sorry for Bulgy despite the fact he was bad, glad the TV series got him back and changed him to a nicer vehicle, they should do the same and bring back Bulstrode and Smudger, bet Rev W Awdry would turn in his grave if he discovered the TV series had brought Bulgy back and turned him green and into a mobile grocery shop
You can tell this was the Rev’s mouthpiece against Marxist revolutionaries that existed at the time of writing. Even down to Oliver’s use of the words “Mean Scarlett Deceiver” (Red = communist). I’m not saying he was wrong to do so, but it’s not uncommon for an author’s political views to seep into their work, particularly when they’re inspired by real events. What they’ll do is create a context around the person they’re trying to satire so that they look silly. In this story, Bulgy wants to “free the roads from railway tyranny”, not realising that they all work as part of the same network and mutually benefit from each other. There was no point in Bulgy trying to beat the engines to the station because, even without the bridge, he never would have been as fast. He should have focused on going places where the railway doesn’t have stations. Or ‘Trouble in the shed’, where Gordon, Henry and James ‘strike’ because they’re ‘being treated unfairly’ when all the Fat Controller was asking them to do was fetch their own coaches. Even when he got Edward to act as a temporary station pilot, they all hissed him and called him ‘black wheels’ (Black leg was a scab, someone who crosses the picket line to work during a strike) when their demands had already been fulfilled. It’s not like they specified, “No, a tender engine like Edward can’t fetch them.” And they still took the coaches he brought them
donald and douglasfan01 | I was kidding, remember when one of the miniature engines said, when we were both green, passengers kept calling me Mike! So it must be green Mike, that the illustrator put in as a bonus!
Can we all take a moment to think about just how much legal trouble Bulgy and his crew would have been in? They're looking at reckless endangerment charges, possible traffic violations for the bridge, and of course, multiple counts of fraud. Considering Bulgy's attitude and lack of remorse, I wouldn't be surprised to see a judge throwing the book at him for a 10+ year sentence.
Only Bulgy. Not his crew.
@@GamingDelight Railgate
He got sentenced to being a hen house.
@@crazyleyland5106 but then he was put back on the road in season 7 which so I guess you can consider that his probation.
@@GamingDelightbut his crew allowed him to do these things so there just as guilty.
Bulgy really got his comeuppance after being wedged under that bridge. But also, the way his face was designed here was really weird, so the TV version of it was quite sort of better. Also also, it's cool how Donald's Duck shows up on the platform in that one scene.
Well it is in the same book as Donald's Duck.
@@TheBrickGuy7939 Of course.
I love the face designs in the railway series where the face is incorporated into the vehicle like most of the diesels and bulstrode and mallard and stuff like that
@@roymackenzie-jy4lreh, it’s just too inconsistent, I say Caroline was the only exception because it makes her eyes look like an old grandma’s glasses but it’s also the typical anthropomorphic car design of the era
@@Nic_2751 I do agree with inconsistency, I'd person give all vehicles a mouth and eyes but no nose and be incorporated with the vehicle.
Seen the real Bulgy at The Nene Valley Railway. Also been to The South Devon Railway where I rode behind Duck’s real life counterpart. It is one of my favourite heritage railways of all time.
At 4:20 Bulgy's "Railway Bus" sign is overwritten with ,
"BALEFUL RUST". That's why I love Peter and Gunvors illustrations!
420 🌿🥴
When I was a kid I thought "Railway bus" sounded like an obvious scam.
iron 13 true
Same
I realize this now
Trans rights are human rights
@@concept5631 thanks
Duck felt mad of such a idea.
Duck: We had a friend called Bertie and he is a bus
he likes the railway. Sometimes he teases us about it,
but he doesn’t want to see it ripped up.
Bulgy: Pah, nonsense, I know Bertie,
he is too small in size to be in any use.
Duck took no notice.
(Guard's whistle blows)
Duck: That bus is silly!
How do you like that, Bulgy doesn’t even like Bertie even though he is a bus. Bulgy is better left at the hen farm since he never learns.
1:28 that duck on the platform is named dilly and she was introduced in the previous book. always like how the books stayed consistent
I wonder what Bulgy’s actual name is since that’s just what Oliver calls him.
Maybe he doesn’t have one
The name Bulgy was painted on his side that was his name
@@sarodanadian6496 I doubt it. That's only shown in the last illustration scrawled on him unevenly. That's more likely graffiti. Oliver got the nickname from his license plate which reads BLG Y and his shape.
Mick
In my headcanon, Bulgy’s real name is Andy.
Serves him right!
Serves him right!
Am I the only one listening to Bulgy rant and hearing the Soviet national anthem playing?
Thovis
Yup
Isn't Bulgy better off with a Cockney accent? After all, his prototype is a London Routemaster bus.
My dad always felt really sorry for Bulgy as he looks very sorry for himself in the last picture. I like to think that the Sodor Bus Preservation Group rescued him in the end. I hope he learned his lesson. I think his being red and rude showed the Reverend Awdry's political views. He said "Come the revolution, railways will be ripped up..." Since then the cars have trampled on the buses' remains. In Britain except for Sodor, "bustitution" was brought in after Beeching. But in recent years there has been Carstitution, with cars replacing buses. The trouble is, you can't catch cars.
George the steamroller had the same attuide
The story that inspired bulgy is a bit weirder. In 1958, an old(and very unfortunate)Brighton double decker trolleybus(or trackless tram depending on who you are talking to)was being towed through Sussex to a breaker's yard, because it was no longer needed by the city of Brighton. on it's travels the bus encountered a bridge, the tow truck pulling it went under just fine, and the bridge clearance was 14 feet 9 inches, allowing for most double decked buses. However the tow truck driver failed to account for one tiny little thing. Since it was a trolleybus, it had a pair of trolley poles(pantographs) on the roof to draw current from the overhead lines, to power an electric motor, which drives the wheels. Unfortunately for said tow truck driver, the trolley poles got snagged under the bridge. It was finally freed after 3 hours, all causing a holdup on the railway tracks above. The bus made it to the junkyard, and was broken up. Ironically, the bus had an advertisement on it's rear saying, "what's your hurry"
I like to believe that Bulgy is a representation of those revolutionaries who cause more confusion than actually do anything good
Your typical college socialist lol
@@savagetv6460 true XD
Diesels
@@Nic_2751 not sure but okay
Serves Bulgy right for telling lies
Not "Lies" but "Whoppers"
@@t.bfisher5855 Same thing, just different words.
And being a bully
This is the most based railway series story of all time.
Nope it’s based and Redpilled. But normally leftists tend to be against the roads and for the railways, not the other way around.
@@richardthefox3412 i mean,there's people that hate railways because "AiR pOlLuTiOn" of steam locos
@@davidantoniocamposbarros7528 These assholes call themselves George the steam roller
Well, yeah. Duck's in it.
What political message are you trying to bring into this?
Mm, the voice reminds me of Michael Palin :D Same accent. Delightful!
"Ya boo snubs"
This story was adapted into an episode of series 3. Thomas, who was absent from the story, appears in the model version, as a background element.
I'm kinda surprised Bulgy and George never got along.
Imagine if they did
If those two want to live in a world without railways, they should find a way to get themselves exported to Iceland!
4:20 I feel sorry for Bulgy despite the fact he was bad, glad the TV series got him back and changed him to a nicer vehicle, they should do the same and bring back Bulstrode and Smudger, bet Rev W Awdry would turn in his grave if he discovered the TV series had brought Bulgy back and turned him green and into a mobile grocery shop
Well now he's back as a standard bus, and has gotten back his old personality.
@@ToonReel001 yeah well I wrote that comment 9 years ago before that
@@DamiensTrainsandTravels I know. Just a late update. XD
3:18 I’m surprised to hear them say conductor instead of guard in the railway series since it’s made for British audience’s.
Bulgy is based on an AEC Bridgemaster not a Routemaster.
Bridgemaster indeed.
My initials. AEC!
Bridgemaster, that name didn't work did it?
The reason why the name didnt work because bulgy cant go under the bridge so he is the stuck on bridgemaster
It's so ironic. "Bridgemaster"
0:10 why are bulgy's eyebrows on his radiator when they should be on his headlights???
he has no eyebrows
That's his nose and mouth
2:32
When you get the flag from a rival base in Capture the Flag
1:22 DILLY!! On the platform!!
Oml she is.
1:31 Damn with railways, woo wasn’t expecting hearing that from a RWS book.
It’s actually "Down".
@@FerdinandProductions2021I guess but to me I thought he said damn.
bulgy: down with rails
george: that makes two of us
2:07 wtf lol look at olivers face.
Portrayed as 11 foot 8 bridge. Trucks and buses hitting the bridge!
I always wondered who Bulgy's Friend was
2:03 Oliver's face kinda reminds me of Speed Racer.
Watching in 2024
What's with Sodor and leaving vehicles for dead????
it's their own damm fault
@@masterfarr8265they really need to buy more faceless vehicles, even if all trains have faces, the road vehicles do not
@@masterfarr8265dose bad attitude really justify death?
that’s like it a school bully was arrested and was given the chair.
@ThomasAnime that's either her or a chicken
did you know that its true when a red bus was stuck under a brig i got a pic of it
Lol Oliver has black wheels lolololol
Bulgy is so mean.
ya boo snuggggs!!!!
@93DOL I have the same thoughts on both subjects.
@UbroFilms aren't they the same thing?
I always thought it was.
You can tell this was the Rev’s mouthpiece against Marxist revolutionaries that existed at the time of writing. Even down to Oliver’s use of the words “Mean Scarlett Deceiver” (Red = communist).
I’m not saying he was wrong to do so, but it’s not uncommon for an author’s political views to seep into their work, particularly when they’re inspired by real events. What they’ll do is create a context around the person they’re trying to satire so that they look silly. In this story, Bulgy wants to “free the roads from railway tyranny”, not realising that they all work as part of the same network and mutually benefit from each other. There was no point in Bulgy trying to beat the engines to the station because, even without the bridge, he never would have been as fast. He should have focused on going places where the railway doesn’t have stations.
Or ‘Trouble in the shed’, where Gordon, Henry and James ‘strike’ because they’re ‘being treated unfairly’ when all the Fat Controller was asking them to do was fetch their own coaches. Even when he got Edward to act as a temporary station pilot, they all hissed him and called him ‘black wheels’ (Black leg was a scab, someone who crosses the picket line to work during a strike) when their demands had already been fulfilled. It’s not like they specified, “No, a tender engine like Edward can’t fetch them.” And they still took the coaches he brought them
YA BOO SNUBS
What does that even mean?
@@preciousgem9127 honestly... I have no clue. My guess is it's random British slang; the show and books were based out of the UK
adventureoflinkmk2 I’m FROM BRITAIN! And I have NO IDEA what it means!
@@preciousgem9127 hmm. Interesting...
It means, "So long suckers"!
Bulgy The Big Red Bus Is Growling He's Not Friendly Like Bertie Duck & Oliver The Great Western Engines Told About The Big Red Bus
1:21.2 Rex?
Probably Jock and Rex!
jock wasn't around that time he was around the christefor awdry era
donald and douglasfan01 | I was kidding, remember when one of the miniature engines said, when we were both green, passengers kept calling me Mike!
So it must be green Mike, that the illustrator put in as a bonus!
oh.. ok
it's bert
*yaa boo snoobz*
Perhaps they should have given Bulgy a free ride on Harold.
Andrew Boyd Bulgy is actually too big to fit in Harold.
Bulgy the bully bus
Noice
WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER
The story toke place in 1968
I'm pretty sure it was 1969
omg nulgy is now scrapt goof 7
I A M your English is horrible!
I A M it’s “Bulgy” not “Nulgy”. It’s also “Scrapped”, not “Scrapt”.
A shame Bulgy was rude
ah yes, "Duck murders a communist"
Murder is a bit dramatic
Anti-Rail League...what a lot of Trogs
Face is weird