A reminder that you can put "Thomas and the" in front of the title of any RAIB incident report to get a really dark Thomas the Tank Engine reboot. "Thomas and the uncontrolled evacuation of a partially platformed train at Clapham Common" www.gov.uk/raib-reports - ThreadSky

garius.bsky.social • 129 days ago

A reminder that you can put "Thomas and the" in front of the title of any RAIB incident report to get a really dark Thomas the Tank Engine reboot.

"Thomas and the uncontrolled evacuation of a partially platformed train at Clapham Common"

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports

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dreadships.bsky.social•129 days ago

Slightly annoyed to discover that my telling of Thomas and the Runaway Wagon at Kineton was on Twitter. Might have to repeat it here.

chompmancobra.bsky.social•129 days ago

Is that the one where maybe we shouldn't let the MoD run trains

dreadships.bsky.social•129 days ago

Yup.

timmorton2.bsky.social•129 days ago

Was it a, wait for it, was it a
training exercise?

owenjackson.bsky.social•129 days ago

My first thought was, isn't Kineton Defence Munitions? Oh dear.....

garius.bsky.social•129 days ago

I blame Percy.

garius.bsky.social•129 days ago

Yeah, I keep meaning to write it up for LR.

ginandbacon.bsky.social•129 days ago

"Thomas and the Collision between a road-rail vehicle and a trolley near Brading"

Yup, it works.

garius.bsky.social•129 days ago

Feels more Henry, that one.

doraymefarted.bsky.social•129 days ago

angrytired.bsky.social•129 days ago

Thomas certainly does get about when you do this 👍

garius.bsky.social•129 days ago

If its a fatality then you use "Percy and the". Because he was clearly a psychopath.

angrytired.bsky.social•129 days ago

Do railway locomotives go by the same mantra as dogs? i.e. there are no bad locomotives… 🤔

terryb72.bsky.social•128 days ago

There was a locomotive in the 70s that got renumbered because a medium claimed to have seen it involved in a terrible accident. After the renumbering, it was involved in a terrible accident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrawby_Junction_rail_crash

essaywells.bsky.social•129 days ago

Canonically at least one train got the Cask of Amontillado treatment, Thomas the Tank Engine is *dark*.

sfkissinger.bsky.social•128 days ago

And not just that, but the original last line of Henry's bricking-up segment is *I think he deserved his punishment, don't you?"

sfkissinger.bsky.social•128 days ago

There's also Smudger getting turned into a stationary generator, the bus Budgy being trapped under a bridge and turned into a henhouse, and the truck S. C. Ruffey getting ripped apart by being pulled in different directions.

essaywells.bsky.social•128 days ago

For the love of God, Fatcontrollor!

stuckatthisbit.bsky.social•128 days ago

I never thought it would happen with me and the train from Clapham 🎶

davemck.bsky.social•128 days ago

Thomas and the craven arms.
That's the one where he grows appendages like some sort of railway pinocchio but they're haunted and get up to some serious shit.

jdiscenza.bsky.social•128 days ago

I cannot stop laughing at this. I will probably be in public when something reminds me of this and people will move away from me carefully.

cscotty00.bsky.social•129 days ago

I perceive it as Thomas entering his Liam Neeson era:

Thomas and the Collision between a train and a hand trolley at Challow 2

Thomas: "Predicted delays? Not on my watch" *one handed slide actions his shotgun*

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