Scary Stories from the Railway Series
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Better known as the "Thomas the Tank Engine" books, these books contained some chilling, unnerving tales. The engines in these stories faced some gruesome events. Learn all about them here.
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There’s a dark irony in the portrayal of diesels in the Railway Series. While the books portrayed diesels as harbingers of doom for steam engines, almost all the diesel classes portrayed in the stories would suffer the same fate less than a decade after the books’ publication.
Narrow Gauge captured this almost perfectly.
Diesels were never safe at all.
I just wish he’d tackled it with Class 40, or D199.
What happened then? Did the diesels basically got rekt because of electric ones or the roads?
@@hectorandres2921 Part of the "1955 Modernization (Modernisation) Plan" was to replace all steam traction with diesel or electric traction.
Politics led to too many manufacturers of... varying... experience manufacturing diesels all rolling out options.
MANY of these redundant offerings were unreliable, expensive to maintain, or both.
BR later went through a normalization process leading to most of these diesels being replaced with a simplified set.
The diesels taken off the rails were usually scrapped well before their original projected obsolescence date, hence the irony.
@@tim3172 Ah! Thanks!
@@hectorandres2921 Yeah, the real Class 40 (TVS number only) and Old Stuck Up were scrapt.
I don't think Awdrey intended for the Sad story of Henry to be messed up. It's the equivalent of a bratty child being sent to their room.
Not when any hope of ever being let out is taken away.
@@darkknight5541 But he literally was let out at the first opportunity he was needed. Sir Topham Hat was just scarying him, just like parents sometimes do so kids woul behave
LOL 😂
True
I don't understand how it's messed up, can someone please explain to me?
Here we see a rare type of youtuber called underrated
Its actually very common sadly
Si wei
Yes yes yes
@Laquelectro including me
And then they Cccc cut em up
"The MYTHICAL Island of Sodor"
All the adults of young fans watching: Listen here, you little sh-
Guys these are the most likes I've ever got thx
Yeah! The Isle of man is real!
SHUT UP!
Yep. Well the island of sodor is fake tho
But SHUT UP
In a tie-in book for the series, it is revealed that Godred did indeed exist and his fall did happen. I'm assuming Culdee "making it up" is referring to Godred being used for parts.
Oh
What episode? In all my years of watching Thomas I never heard of him.
@@alvinmccranie6978 This wasn't adapted for the TV show, but an audiobook is available here ua-cam.com/video/faefNq6FwCw/v-deo.html
Ertl even made toys of both Culdee and Godred! It would be weird for them to make a model of a train that never existed haha.
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere that’s the railway the Culdee Fell railway was based off of
I like how it’s scary sometimes, it separates it from normal kid shows/ books. It isn’t afraid to get dark sometimes which is the reason why I loved it so much as a kid .It didn’t play down to the kids
I loved TTTE as a kid, but I can't say why exactly. Kids don't always know why they enjoy what the do, but I knew Shining Time Station was my favorite show when I was almost 6.
Sir Handel's dismantling is what happened to Sir Haydn during the documentary. The Thin Controller did it as a means to get the message across to Sir Handel as he should've known better after Peter Sam's accident.
Who is sir Haydn ??? Is it the real life counter part of sir handle or something???
thiru raj yes look up the talyllyn railway
@@thiruraj3866, yes.
@@thiruraj3866 Yes. number 3 from the Corris Railway in Powys, Wales. In 1951 it was bought by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, Gwynedd, and number 4 was bought too, which was named Edward Thomas (the basis for Peter Sam). They are both still at Tywyn and in operational order.
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere to show the insides of the engines
My man actually knew the story after the sad story of Henry existed
I've heard an Alternate Version
"Once an Engine Attached to a Train, Heard the Roar of The Luftwaffe's Plane"
@@railbaron1 Victor?
@@alexmohos917 Yes
@@railbaron1 no it goes "Once an engine attached to a train, heard the whir of the Nazi planes, which a squeak of his funnel, he hid in a tunnel and waited utill it was safe again."
@@loanedengineproductions I know, saying Luftwaffe sounds better to me and some people get really crotchety when you say Nazi
Actually, according to a few official sources, Henry was in the tunnel for about a year, as the events of the story happened in 1922, whilst the other 3 stories of the book happened in 1923.
I just realized the troublesome trucks would commit suicide just for a prank. That's their reason for death a freaking prank. No wonder they giggle maniacally.
The destructions of the trains and stuff is making me think of that one deleted scene from the Cars movie, where McQueen accidently runs into the forest to see a bunch of car "corpses"
This scene was reused in some Radiator Springs race thing.
Yeah I like car corpses
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere he would, if he wasn't fliming him
Reminds me Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The Cars thing that is, not a Jr. fan, that's my dad. However, I know about Jr.'s wrecked racecars in the forest behind his house.
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere Mcqueen didn't laugh at the corpse's
I wrote a fanfiction where Henry got a therapist
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I meant, why
Duck's face when scruffy "cough *dies* cough" is hilarious.
Ever think about how at least two engines were buried alive, several were abandoned around the island, and that there are hundreds of train corpses at the smelters?
Considering that most have smoke box doors, they weren’t sentient.
@@the4tierbridge not anymore
Well the reason why there are some bits of mature stuff like at 19:52 was a thing because awdry believed that kids weren't stupid and I kinda have to agree with him, if kids get introduce to some not all stuff like some of the stories that you mentioned it will help them mature when they get older
Agreed
Imagine going "Hey boss I'm not feeling too well today I think I'll take a sick leave"
And he just goes "Sure man take a sick leave"
*Whips out a pistol* "FROM LIFE!" *BLAST*
Sounds like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
14:38 he’ll be crashin down the mountain when he comes 😂😂😂
Hahahahahahahaha
Actually the story of Godred is true just the part where his spare parts were used to mend the other engines was false
I like how Douglas is still smiling when he breaks the band
Van
Hearing that Gordon one of the last of trains of his own class is not scary but kinda tragic
Scotsman is the only one left...
Downright depressing really
Atleast you said one of the last considering Flying Scotsman still exist
See others read the book and just stop at the scary part but I love how he put attention to it and made of make sense keep up the good work
I just want to say, that your use of visuals and editing in this video were utterly magnificent.
When you showcased footage of Gordon talking to the Fat Controller about the abolition of steam, your following narration, complete with railway footage and the harmonica rendition of Auld lang syne nearly brought a tear to my eye. It was just the perfect tone to convey the sad decline of the steam railway.
Excellent work
Thanks, dude! That scene with that music wasn't a totally original idea. I'd used that same piece in the background of a similar scene in my "It's Just For Kids" video where I talk about an episode of the show Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I didn't really know what else to put there. Music selection is hard.
@@planetaryiam954 Yeah, it is. The slightest misplacement of music could ruin the mood you're going for.
the thing with sir handel is one of those "empty threat" kind of things. I doubt the thin controller would have actually taken him apart, it's just a stern scolding to get him to do as he is told.
I think he was insinuating that he was taking Sir Handel apart to see what was wrong with him.
When I was a kid (during the Starr and Carlin era), no one I knew watched Thomas the Tank Engine, other than myself. Nowadays, since Carlin's departure and the show getting dumbed down to ridiculous levels, suddenly everyone is watching or is aware of it. It's a read disappointment.
However, one thing I can say about modern "Fake Thomas", is that it does seem to have gotten rid of the issue of what the engines' drives and firemen are doing when they're getting into mischief. In "Fake Thomas" the engines seem to drive themselves. But in the old shows, I kept wondering: Do the engine crews just stand there and let the engines punish freight cars or fight each other? Do they chastise their engines for saying bad stuff later on? When Gordon refused to pull a special freight train and disrupted the turntable he was on, rolling himself into a ditch as a result, where was his driver to set the brakes?
With regards to Gordon rolling into the ditch, I believe his driver and fireman were outside his cab to turn him on the turntable. With Gordon being in steam, he tried to move forward slightly on his own to jam the turntable and...well, I think you know the rest.
I grew up on a mixture of these books and the original TV show. That image of the scrapped engines and blowtorch brought back a lot of memories!
I always joke with my friends how morbid the early seasons of TTTE and The Railway Series could be, and nobody believes me until I show it myself.
This reminds me of what TVtropes said about TTTE having tear jerker moments. Sometimes people find the characters hard to look at when they're low, like when Thomas is about to cry after forgetting his train. "Poor Thomas was so sad he nearly cried." They're just so expressive, which made them good for little me, as a I had trouble distinguishing feelings as a kid. But a story/game about the town called Feelings and hours of TTTE made me better, except angry I still have some trouble with. If the mouth is closed, I can recognize anger. Maybe that's because of how TTTE angry faces tend to be, an angry frown?
*"Gave An New Whole Meaning For BreakVan"*
*I get it Bc he fell apart ( •u• )*
Oliver "Don't test me or I'll break you" the tank engine.
Yooo
I thought this would be another RWS bashing, but I was incorrect! You have surprised me.
Skarloey was fortunate to not have suffered the same demise as Godred in the series 9 episode Skarloey the Brave. (From the all so loveable Hit era)
Is that supposed to be sarcastic
Polower 321 yes
Gladly I grown up with hit entertainment era so yeah I love sesaon 9
@@anamarijacovic3503 that’s fine, I don’t mind series 9 on a whole it’s just I liked the earlier seasons a lot better as they had better stories and morals.
@@JamieBoy-ij2ri and character he be him self
According to the books "The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways" and "Sodor: Reading Between the Lines", Godred actually did exist, despite what was said about Culdee making the story up.
There were more engines on Duke's old railway, there was Alert, a light blue tank engine with the same design as Sir Handel, Jim and Tim, and two cabless mining engines named Atlas and Alfred, it's safe to assume that these engines were sold or scrapped after their Railway closed in 1947.
Jerry
@@polower3215 Oh yes, I forgot about him.
EGG BALLO also who’s miney
@@polower3215 there is no characters called miney, I said mining as in minecraft or mineshaft.
EGG BALLO the extended railway series book:45 mid sodor engines it stated miney was a mine engine tho it was her nickname by the engines rather than an official name.
I mean with sir handle being taken apart how else would you “Fix” an engine? I mean Henry had to be taken apart when he had his accident most likely
Agreed
28:25 The video, "Horrors of the Rails 2: Left Behind" gives us Smudger's thoughts during his life on the Mid Sodor Railway and the aftermath of Granpuff.
I love how this video is about the book series and not the show, a nice change and great video!
Credit for reading more than the Three Railway Engines, and not sticking to Henry being stuck in the tunnel like he was there forever.
Also kind of an interesting fact about the Culdee Fell Railway, it was mentioned in a learning segment once, though wasn't ever again. I'd wager that they've considered adapting the Culdee Fell Railway into the TV series at least once or twice (both in the model series or CGI series, though it was likely never actually done due to either budget reasons or more screen time for other characters), much like how they introduced the Small Railway into the TV Series back in 2015.
I suppose that's what's good about the fanbase, though, picking up the slack where the TV Series can't or won't.
Interesting thing:
1- Godred falling down the mountain did actually happen. On the Snowdon Mountain Railway's opening day in 1896, on the second trip from the summit number 1 LADAS fell down the mountain, and adding safety measures after that delayed the railway's opening by 2 months. Also, a local pub owner called Ellis died after he hit his head on a rock copying the driver and fireman in jumping out.
2- I didn't care about any of these happenings when I was younger and I still don't.
3- That picture of the engines in the scrap yard is me and my sister's favourite picture from the Railway Series. Nothing scarring there then!
I think the dismantling Sir Handle thing was more of a joke to get him to behave then a real threat, it’s like saying you’ll kick your kid out of the house for not doing their homework obviously no one would actually do that
2:38: That was the UK line. In the US (retitled "Come Out, Henry!"), they were going to take up the rails and leave him there "until you're ready to come out of the tunnel."
There’s a small preserved railway (I think) in my state, South Dakota. There’s like, one diesel and maybe 3-5 steam engines. Btw, the, I think, means I think its classified as a railway, but now I’m thinking it’s more classified as a tourist attraction.
Fun fact: The real life Henry the green engine still runs today
I read the complete collection as a 7 year old and this is bringing back memories
You seem to take engines being taken apart and rebuilt in the wrong way. Engines are used to being taken apart. They require regular maintenance that it's not the same as forcing surgery on someone. Some engines even enjoy a trip to the works for maintaince which of course requires taking them to bits.
13:05 I remember as a kid the sound effect plus facial expressions really gave the trains a realistic feeling of power
You're back! Definitely the most underrated You Tuber I know of, love your Peanuts and Space videos in particular. Please keep making content, I love your work!
Also the Skarloey engines are like the G1 Mini-Autobots of Sodor, except they don't all die in the movie.
Thanks for the kind words! Don't worry, I have no intention of quitting UA-cam at this time, even though it is getting more difficult for me. Giving up after only about a dozen videos wouldn't be a good way to leave things.
@@planetaryiam954 If you don't mind me asking, why is it "getting more difficult"? If you need a Patron, I don't have the money right now, but I would love to help in the future.
The reason it's getting difficult is because of UA-cam itself. The changing guidelines affect my uploads. Copyright claims despite my videos falling under Fair Use and now having to designate the audience for my videos. I lose a lot of my feedback, because of this. I do have a Patreon account set up, though, as an option. I'm not a full-time UA-camr. So, this isn't my primary source of income.
@@planetaryiam954 Ah. Just remember that you always have fans who love your content. I really liked this video, and I sent it to two other people. Also, did you think the Engines were creepy when you were young too? That seems to be the common consensus on the internet.
"I'm coming apart!"
Scruffey's last words
I find the image of the engines having therapists/getting counseling very cute and endearing for some reason :3
This is an Awesome video,I first thought this was a video about how Thomas is racist and authoritian but nope,this is a well researched video! also The Bluebell Railway isn't the only railway that acts as a Safe Haven for Steam Engines,that's basically every Heritage/Preserved Railway and Railway Museum
Gordon saw damned near a century of service. When he was new he was top of the line. A product of a country bouncing back from war. Forty years later? He is having to come to ter!s with the fact his like is all but done. While he has a home in sodor and his brother has been grand enough to be spared the torch (and even then it was a close thing had funds not been raised.) To hear that all that you are, all those of your kind have been deemed obsolete and have all been replaced not just with a differing model, but a wholly differing thing.
And yet Gordon took his retirement with grace and dignity.
Well that's just awesome every time when there's an accident in Thomas and Friends it ends up being real, first the Flying Kipper, James's accident, the accident in Gordon's View, and now Godred's fake death. What the heck is going on with Sodor. I'm starting to think the Island of Sodor is real.
It's not real, it's REALISTIC, except for the parts that have to do with sentience. But Thomas not realizing he forgot his train's just too real for an animated show. I still have Percy's Ghostly Trick, a classic video and the box says "Live Action Animation", so don't tell me it wasn't animated when they used "toy trains", as my mom called the models. He should've realized a lot sooner than he did, maybe as long as it takes someone to realize OMG, I forgot my pants or my shoes, even if you justify his unawareness by saying he was so excited and absentminded. He pulled coaches about all the time before that as a shunter, so he, being alive, should know how coaches feel in that story.
Is realistic
8:55 The death of that brakevan isn't even sugarcoated in the TV series. He had an actual dead face!
“Doh I made the joke”
Had me dying 😂😂
The reason why Henry was left in the tunnel, The Fat Director/Awdry had enough of Henry's problems in the illustrations he started laying the ground for Henry's leave but people kept sending letters asking for more of Henry.
Godred’s smoke was fire,wasn’t it?!
Hey lad, did ya know that dismantling engines IS A REAL THING? The Thin controller said that probably cuz he wanted to see if Sir Handel was actually sick, as you dismantle an engine to fix problems with it Irl. But anyways, nice vid :)
I just love wat you said about the stories and your jokes are gold
TBH, The godred story reminds me of Eastern airline flight 401 when a plane crashed due to pilot mistake killing 101 lives. The plane was destroyed but it part was in perfect condition and was used on other planes which sparks ghost sighting.
Does that mean Culdee predicted that event?!
As a Thomas fan, I was expecting this video to be bashing the RWS for being too dark, but I was pleasantly surprised. Glad to see that people not in the TTTE fandom actually look into the stories!
3:37 I love this video so much now because he actually mentioned that Henry was let out
Excellent list. Some of these, I've heard of, others are more obscure.
Your not like other ones. You are being serious with these , and get no hate. Good video by the way
This is a good video to watch on Halloween.
Great video! It would be nice if the on screen text stayed there a little longer, its hard to read when you're also listening but the notes on screen were often worth skipping back to read. Thanks for putting this together!
If godred’s demise never happened why is there no number one mountain railway engine
Godred could’ve actually existed but he didn’t have an accident
Godred's demise did happen, the book just had its ending change to not upset the readers
3:42 Edward kinda looked like he had hearts for pupils.
He just gave a whole new meaning to the term "break van"
XD 10:43
25:28,in fact there were several controllers, and the controller from the "enterpricing engines" is not the one who locked Henry.
Yup, the controller from “three railway engines” is the one who locked up Henry.
i remember these books, and now that i see the things in here it’s kinda funny how i thought nothing of it as a kid
I have never heard anyone suggest the railway series was authoritarian or racist, but when you said it I have to believe that people (trolls, perhaps) will say that about anything that people like out of spite or a poorly adjusted sense of humour.
Considering that race doesn't exist for sentient trains and that deisels are an obvious metaphor for obseletism, I can't allow myself to believe that anyone would accuse the stories of such things with any amount of sincerity.
16:53 I knew the story sounded all too familiar. That's because it happened in my hometown in Colorado Springs. An 0-4-2T number 4 on the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway broke a side rod and ran away in 1896. It was scrapped shortly afterward. I never saw that picture, even though I knew all too well about it! Thanks!
#2 was such a British jab at us Americans 😂
@18:43 Funny Enough, They did make toys for the Mountain Engines, The Wooden Railway made Culdee an Engine, and the metal trains had Culdee, Godred, & Lord Harry.
I have Take N' Play Culdee and D199... unfortunately there's no BoCo 😔
@@Vincent_Pilsen That sucks that BoCo didn’t get a Take N Play :(
I like how the first American engine he added was cocky and didn’t give darn for anything. Man British really be trying to make fun of us Americanos
So your telling me when they don’t like a piece of rolling stock they just fucking destroy it
By accident
Classic Video, ah good times
If steam engines are getting scrapped because diesel engines are cheaper, than the hatred would be justified. There's being accepting of those who are different, and then there's ignoring your own best interests and embracing you extinction.
28:18
Him: Peter Sam and-
Subtitles: Peter salmon
I'd really love to see more ﹰRailwayﹰSeries and ﹰThomas & Friends videos.
You know, recently I’ve been writing the story of Thomas and Friends where in a literary form I write it where one episode leads to the next, leads to the next. I’m trying to include every episode, movie, and special.
But now that I watched this I wonder if I’d be able to mix The Railway with Thomas & Friends
You probably can, and your story will be good to read when it's finished.
Kelly Foster - I have been doing it, and I’m in the process of working on it. Perhaps I can show it to you?
@@CelestinaakaClonaClox9999 Sure.
How can I contact you? I’ve got Discord
@@CelestinaakaClonaClox9999 Er, never nind. I let my conscience get thd better of me.
25:16: So, in other words, Sir Thopham Hatt is Season 1-3 Mr. Krabs, if the show-writers didn’t focus on his greed.
No, why would he be strict? He saves engines, not be a greed engine.
Don't forget that the Spiteful Brake Van was screaming in agony as Douglas pinned it against the trucks, begging them to "go on!"
I think it's sad they made some dark stories in the RWS books because kids probably freaked out from reading these stories with their parents. I think it's for the better that they didn't adapt the Mountain Engines into the TV series because of how dark the stories are on the books and also because it wasn't possible to turn the characters into models for the show (and even if it was possible, it wouldn't have been financially possible because the models in the show for the other characters are high quality looking characters that cost a lot of money to make).
Sir Handel and Peter Sam were originally painted blue and green when they were named Falcon and Stuart in the railway series. In the TV series they kept the blue and green for Peter Sam and Sir Handel.
Ironic how all the Narrow-gauge engines were red except for the one named Rusty. Also, in the more recent era, they've repainted Rheneas yellow.
Only once in a brief scene
I find it interesting that the Mid Sodor Railway, along with Stuart and Falcon is based on the Corris Railway, but Duke’s design originates on the Ffestiniog Railway
The scene where Thomas pulled James from a falling tree, Thomas's stoker head turned on its own.
That was very good
I was expecting some sort of ghost train story. I was indeed wrong.
This is underrated af
This can't be your only Thomas video
It isn't. Check out my "It's Just for Kids" video.
As someone who’s watched this video probably like 20 times now because I just love your voice so much, I don’t think I would necessarily call these stories “scary”. I mean sure, if you were in the situation of some of them it would be scary for YOU, but I don’t really think most of these would qualify as “terrifying”. I don’t know, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. After all I’m just a naive autistic young man who doesn’t understand things unless they’re directly explained to me.
9:36 Wait until you hear Geroge Carlin's Scottish accent!
These dark stories are always favorites of mine! Godred's story is my favorite! Classic Thomas and The Railway Series aren't afraid to show dark things to children, and I say that's a good thing!
The black smoke from Godred must be fire! 😱
.... Real steam engines don't have all white smoke how dumb are you
@@Oscar-xj1nd not his fault he didn't know and don't be rude
@@devontaschannel803 this was a year ago
Hang on his name was smudger in the tv series. Not to mention they're completely different types of engines
Wish I could turn back time & stop those punks from scrapping the real engines
14:01: imagine being a kid and climbing on some old wood on the side of a train track and having a face looking at you while your standing on it.
"This story wasnt exactly adapted for television"
*cough cough* thomas and stepney *cough cough*
24:07 *still waiting for a project on a steam tram to be built*
Aren't we all
Loco-Brakes from Brazil want's to know your Location.
It's a shame that hardly anyone talks about the maturity in these books and tv show. I can't name any other kids / family media that does what this does.
I had the Ertl toys of Culdee and Godred! I never realised that not only were they never in the show but one of them was canonically dead 😂