Gordon gets stuck on the hill and old Edward proves that he can still be a really useful engine when he comes to Gordon's rescue.
James wants to be able to prove he's still a good worker once he's released from the shed, but it won't be easy since the freight-trucks he's been given are determined to ruin his plans.
With the biggest three engines going on strike, the Fat Controller gets Edward to help out and hires a new tank engine, Percy. But with Gordon, James, and Henry giving the others a hard time, they remain the biggest problem to the railway.
Thomas has unknowingly been illegally going down the public quarry way without equipment, so is considered a problem. But it may be a second chance for Toby, the unused tram.
Thomas still likes to tease Gordon for forcing himself into the ditch. When he disobediently decides to explore a mine past the Danger zone and falls, Gordon is called in to dig him out.
Thomas' fireman's not being there prevents him from taking Edward's passengers, but he misses Bertie's trying to take them. Bertie is forced to put all his energy into trying to catch Edward to deliver them as he said he would.
Edward meets Trevor, a traction engine in the scrapyard about to lose his life because he is in good shape but out of work. Knowing what it feels like to be scorned, Edward decides to see if anyone can take Trevor on for work.
Scottish twin engines Donald and Douglas arrive, making one extra for the Fat Controller to get rid of. Donald makes a break-van stop bothering Douglas, but has an accident, and Douglas is the one who tries to help James with the van.
Percy tells Thomas he'll take his trainload of the vicar's Sunday schoolers home for him, but has to do so in a fierce storm that makes him blind to where he's going and too cold and wet to run.
Thomas and Percy are upset to hear the mail-train they both drive will be replaced with airmail when the mail-boat is late to them, so try to save it by going at extra speed.
Thomas and Percy aren't happy about dividing the jobs of mail-delivery and visiting a village for Christmas, but things are worse for everybody when they find out that the village is cut off by snow.
The series is set in the fictional island of Sodor, located in the Irish Sea. Sodor is depicted as located in Cumbria, near the historical town of Barrow-in-Furness Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphic steam locomotive, with a design loosely based on the LB&SCR E2 class (1913-1963). Thomas and his associates work at the North Western Railway, the main standard gauge rail network of Sodor. The series focuses on their work relationship.
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