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Each book in this series features one of Thomas the Tank Engine's very good friends.

This is a story about Bertie the Bus. Bertie and Thomas both think they can go fastest. They just can't agree, so they decide to have a race to settle the argument once and for all ...

This remarkably epic volume was the first to elaborate upon the character of Duck, who had appeared briefly in ‘Percy The Small Engine’. This was also the first volume to see a diesel engine on the Fat Controller’s railway. Yet, this diesel was to be the Railway Series’ first true villain – a specific characteristic that stressed Awdry’s strong opposition to the modernisation of railways with diesel traction. The stories tell of how the baneful visitor makes Duck highly unpopular with the other engines and has him briefly exiled. The Great Western hero must win back the trust of his friends by preventing a serious accident. Additionally, this volume was the first to ‘guest-star’ a ‘real’ engine -‘City of Truro’. description from J. Smith, sodor-island.net Stories: Domeless Engines Pop Goes The Diesel Dirty Work A Close Shave

This very first book about the now famous engines was originally published in 1945. Written by Awdry in 1943 to entertain his son, Christopher, who was suffering from measles at the time, this was the first book in what was to become The Railway Series. Here are the original four stories about kind, hard-working Edward, proud Gordon, and fussy Henry. Watchful readers will recognize a very popular little blue engine hiding in one of the pictures … waiting for his own book.

James is proud to be the Sodor Rescue Engine for the day. But will he let his friends help him with a big rescue?

Gordon learns some lessons about how to be a really useful engine.

Each book in this series features one of Thomas the Tank Engine's very good friends.

Thomas the Tank Engine's friend Farmer McColl asks him to fetch some hay to make a bed for some soon-to-be-born piglets. Train-loving boys and girls ages 4 to 6 who are reading with help will be charmed by this Step into Reading Step 2 story of Thomas' good intentions, which go a little bit wrong until Thomas fixes things just in the nick of time! Thomas wants to welcome the piglets in a big way, so he asks his friends Percy and James to help. But his additional good deeds cause trouble when they nearly make Thomas too late with the hay! Bonus shiny stickers add to the fun and excitement of this paperback leveled reader.

Full-color photos. Edward proves to Gordon and James that even though he's an old-fashioned engine, he can still "chug-chug" with the best of them. Other tales in the collection are "Donald and Douglas," "The Deputation," and "The Diseasal."

Winter is coming and Thomas, being a small engine, needs to put on his snowplow. Thomas hates his snowplow; he thinks it makes him look funny, and when he has it on, the other, bigger engines tease him. But Thomas saves the day when a big storm comes up and Toby is stuck on his branch line.

Percy, The Small Engine (Railway Series, No.11)