The TRUE Story(s) Of Percy Runs Away 

It always strikes me how these accidents "just happen"... just like when you accidentally reverse into a neighbour's car... some dude accidentally reverses his freight train into certain death

I enjoy these history lessons behind the show. It makes rewatching the classic series even more exciting.

Percy was rather careless, so he died.

Ah yes one of my favorite episode He should one day do A True Story Of Percy's Promise since that's based on a real event

“Oliver is still boastful because he’s that sort of engine, but he’s always most careful when goes on the main line.”

After seeing that beginning clip, I actually thought that there could be some hint to the Quintinshill Rail Crash of 1915, when a signalman forgot about a local train on the line, which ended up getting hit by a troop train, after it was signaled though. Then a sleeper express collided with the wreckage, and the entire wreck was now ablaze due to the gas lights leaking.

Gordon crashes into Percy and makes Windows 10 error sounds.

When I was real little, this episode scared the shit out of me...

I will never get used to these intros. I grew up with Ringo Starr and Micheal Angelis as the narrators to these classic Thomas stories.

I looked up the number of the 0-6-0T involved in the S&D run away and found that it was a Jinty (LMS Fowler 3F). The 2-8-0 was most likely a Fowler 7F considering were the event took place.

Brother I love these types of videos thanks for making them

I think there’s a true story of Percy promise

The train stopping was what inspired the near collision part, and 1466 running away until being derailed is the actual running away part. So in my words, they both inspired the story of Percy Runs Away.

This was one of my favortie episodes from season 1

Gordon And The Gremlin and James And The Trouble With Trees. The Royal Train with the Queen was late leaving the station and had to go fast to make up for lost time and the bathwater sloshed around the compartment when the Queen was taking a bath. A tree slides down a hill and remains upright when it ends up on the rails.

That poor green Caterpillar with red stripes

This is my favorite episode

Brilliant as always. Might i suggest Gordon and the Famous Visitor, James goes buzz buzz (Buzz Buzz) and Bulgy (the episode)

When I heard the intro I automatically thought of Dieseld199’s April fools video

just the fact that the crashes are from real life events just makes it more entertaining

Hardly an exciting adventure, but "Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady" was something which actually happened to Wilbert Awdry when he was a volunteer guard on the Talyllyn railway.

love your sarcasm and I love this episode.

Gordon: why are you running? why are you running?

The incident is also slightly based on Quintinshill, where a troop train would collide into a stationary goods train, later an express train would hit the wreckage, and freight cars of 2 other trains would derail. The goods engine and troop engine were destroyed, while the 2 engines of the express train would be repaired and later scrapped when BR killed innocent steam engines

Could u do James and the trouble with trees as a basis

You should read and see if Henry's crash in "something in the air" ever happened, because I find it hard to believe a steam engine never crashed into the ocean because of high tides.

Wow this was very interesting, I learned alot now

I like how the rew w awdry dislikes henry’s forrest because it breaks rulle 55, completly forgetting he had written this story

IT’S FINALLY HERE!

This might sound i bit strange but what about toad stands by where scruffy, well... Falls apart by Oliver

I love this series. They may be short and there may not be that much information on the topics but you do a great job of telling the story!

I love these videos and your channel Happy early New Year Trainboy RIP Percy in that intro

Do these episodes: Thomas’s Christmas party, James learns a lesson, Old iron, a close shave for duck, James goes buzz buzz, granpuff, you can’t win, and busy going backwards.

I always thought it was a goofy locomotive version of the delayed running in Scooby-Doo! I was also imagining the engines you described with faces. But not the human ones like in Thomas, but more like smoke box doors with eyes and mouths.

In the second story 7620 is a LMS 3F “Jinty“ , while the 2-8-0 was most likely a Fowler 7F that latter being most likely given there prevalence on that particular line .

This episode all ways stuck with me as a kid. The scene were Gordon is charging towards Percy freaked me out.

UK narration was better with Gordon's "OOORRRRRRRR"

"Percy didn't whistle so the signalman forgot him" Percy: :)

No matter how funny the RL event is, runaway trains are no joke. Especially ones with dangerous contents.

dude legit just scared percy so much he ran a literal marathon just to get away from him

Now this is where sh*t goes down

When i was a kid i always loved this episode for one thing only ,i only watched it for the runaway theme

@TrainBoy The number of the locomotive in the S&D incident, No. 7620, belonged to a Fowler 3F "Jinty" 0-6-0T.

The intro is basically Thomas rated R

Next: The True story of "James & the Trouble with Trees"

i love this video so freaking much

I like the story about 1466. She's being returned to steam for the Didcot Railway Centre 60th Anniversary (or at least I think that's the plan.)

I read somewhere that there were true stories for "Thomas Goes Fishing" and "Thomas and Gordon"

The S&D incident is mentioned in a book I have. Apparently, the 0-6-0's driver jumped down so he could get aboard the freight engine (which wasn't going awfully fast) and bring it to a halt, but the fire man misinterpreted his action as jumping off to be clear of the crash and so he did the same. The driver successfully stopped the freight, thinking the fire man was still on the footplate of the 0-6-0 to also bring it to a halt, but was then rather dismayed to see his chum by the side of the track, very much not on the footplate of the loco that was now propelling the wagons down the line with nobody on board. I can't imagine what their conversation must've been as they both watched it disappear into the distance...

It happened all the time in the steam era. An almost word for word accident happened on the brighton line in the early 1900s.

It's always cool when the engines in the story are preserved. Speaking of preserved locos, have you considered covering the episode Bulldog? From what I learned on the Right on Track podcast, the events were based off the Welsh Highland Railway's engine Linda, and the (spot? event? I don't remember which) became known as Linda's Leap.

Nice vid man

The almost collision of this episode was the first time this show ever startled me. Second time was Henry's crash 2 episodes later.

Something in the air

I've never seen a real-life runaway engine story.

Do another freaking Day Out With Thomas. Those videos are funny when you rage about them!

I remember an interview where he stated that after reading a news paper story inspired him to create the story where Edward helps out Gordon up Gordons hill. This along with your research has made me very curious on what other ones he was inspired by and if he did this for every episode

I was on the footplate yesterday At umgeni steam railway

The incident involving the Jinty 0-6-0 and 7F 2-8-0 is described in detail in the book 'The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway' by Robin Atthill.

I’m eating breakfast while watching this

I swear when I here the numbers of the engines sound like 4th or 6th grade math

That 0-6-0 blue tank engine was used for day out with Thomas

You need to check out about Duke the lost engine. The story is based on a train from South America.

me as gordon* doesnt stop*

A close shave for Duck or a big day for Thomas

Oh boy here we go

This is my favorite season one episode

Cajon Pass. 3 more run Away trains from 1989 to 1996.

I think there is a story behind James and the trouble with trees, but that can be a later/future episode

Awesome dude

I did a quick search and it seems the runaway engine in the second story was an LMS 'Jinty'. Judging by the date and the fact its set on the former SDJR, I imagine the 2-8-0 was a Fowler 7F built for that line specifically

Is Thomas comes to Breakfast based on a real life event? That's one of mg favourites.

That thumbnail is what Nightmares are made of

Do a true story (s) of Duke the lost engine

I hope I can get to see The True Story of Buzz Buzz.

1466 is now undergoing a overhaul and will be returned to steam in the near future

Wow. Such story

With the number of 7620, it's likely the 0-6-0T at Radstock was a Jinty.

I just wanna say something is that That The Thomas and friends series has had its crossover with the Hello kitty series (remeber the thomas land and hello kitty events look it up on RU-vid) and hello kitty is own by sanrío so would it be crazy That Sanrío(a company That actually cares about its many franchises) would buy The rights to Thomas And Friends maybe then Thomas can finally go back to its glory days idk its just something I thought of from watching sanrío shows and thomas fan films

Do some more crashes like percy takes a plunge, break van, a close shave and percy james and the fruitful day

The real story of James wooden brakes and the cars

Did you know, in the British dubbing of that episode, they used Thomas’s whistle in place of percys by accident.

I'm positive that the 1466 story inspired it, that is like... Dead on to the story of Percy Runs Away

My dvd of the first season is basically scratched so out of all the episodes..this is the main one that i cant see anymore through my dvd- Just my luck-

The second one sounds like it was an S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 and an LMS 3F Jinty

it's hereeee

This was an episode that would get me up and jumping whenever it came on because of Percy and Gordon. For the second story, I'm suspecting that the engines involved would have been an LMS Fowler Class 3F Jinty and a S&DJR 7F. I think to anyone who hasn't watched this episode, when they think Runaway Train they think of the movie Unstoppable (2010) which was based off of the CSX 8888 Incident.

Always a treat watching these, since i cant be bothered to do my own research, this episode always frightened me as a kid, i dunno, maybe it was George carlins groan right before gordon hit percy or maybe it was the close up shots of gordons face, either way its nice to know this information!

STEAMROLLER NEXT please!

Oooh will you do one about Old Iron?

These two real life stories made me scared a bit.

I wonder if there's a true story on the classic episode of Toby or toad stands by

True Story of Thomas Gets Bumped, busy going backwards, bad look-out, Godreds story or gordon and the gremlins?

kinda sad how im 15 and a freshmen in high school and im still watching some good ol' thomas the train

I loved when George Carlin narrated thomas the tank engine.

All of the stories written by Rev. W. Awdry are based on real life events, and his son Christopher, in the book Sodor: Reading between the lines. He says "a story which I know to be based on fact, though my father's record of the incident and original location has disappeared"

2:12 hmmm I think Should know a train with a face kinda like a human can move freely but for engines with faces they need drivers to watch out for them

3:15 lol IRL thomas

Percy do be runnin tho 😳😳😳

The S and D 0-6-0 is most likely a 3F Jinty class steam engine and the 2-8-0 is most likely a S and D 7F steam engine.