If Series 3 had kept the transitions and nameboards...

Production of Thomas and Friends third season brought some changes to the presentation form of the series, originally two stories were compiled together as a ten min airing block for ITV, with the nameboard sequence in-between as an intermission, the episode would close with a freeze frame of the last shot with the credits scrolling over.
When Series 3 first made its VHS debut, the nameboards were scrapped of further UK usage but continued to be filmed and used for America and Japan until 1998.
When the last ten S3 episodes were completed in 1992, the freeze frame credits were replaced with a shot of Thomas and eventually became the permeant style of the series.
This edited extract, compiled of early master footage from OliverGWR11 shows would could of been if the ten min format had continued.