00:00Trevor the traction engine was enjoying his work in the vicarage orchard.
00:05Birds were singing and apples were ripening on the trees. It was a lovely day.
00:10Hello Trevor, said James. You look as bright and cheerful as my red paint.
00:15Oh I am, replied Trevor.
00:18What's that noise?
00:20It's the bees, laughed Trevor. They're all in these boxy things called beehives.
00:24I'm taking them to the station. The vicar says his bees make good honey
00:28and he's giving some of them to his friends.
00:32Just then Boko the diesel engine hummed in.
00:38Take care you two. Don't make the bees angry. They might sting you.
00:44James didn't like being told what to do by a diesel and he buzzed away.
00:52Goodbye Trevor, called Boko, and set off to see Duck at the next station.
01:00Bill and Ben, the tank engine twins, were busy arranging cars,
01:04but they scampered off when they saw Boko.
01:10I remember the first time I met those two, laughed Boko. They nearly made my eyes pop out.
01:15Edward soon put a stop to their games.
01:18Edward is the only one who can keep Bill and Ben in order, chuckled Duck.
01:22I sometimes call them the bees.
01:24A good name, replied Boko. They're terrors when they start buzzing around.
01:29James bustled in.
01:33What's that, Duck? Are you afraid of bees? They're only insects after all.
01:38So don't let that buzz box diesel tell you different.
01:41His name is Boko, and he didn't. We...
01:44I wouldn't care if hundreds were swarming around. I'd just blow smoke and make them buzz off.
01:50Buzz, buzz, buzz, retorted Duck.
01:54The next morning, James arrived at the station to collect his coaches.
02:00The passengers were excited and keen to get on board.
02:03The platform was crowded, and the porter was in a hurry.
02:10Mind your backs, he shouted.
02:13Then there was trouble. The beehive fell and broke open.
02:19The station cleared like magic.
02:22James heard a familiar buzzing.
02:25The bees were too cold to be crossed, so they buzzed around the fireman, hoping he'd mend their hive.
02:31But he didn't understand, nor did his driver.
02:34So the bees turned to James.
02:37His boiler was nice and warm.
02:40Buzz off, buzz off, hissed James.
02:44One bee burnt his foot.
02:46Ooh, ah, ah, ooh.
02:48The bee thought James had burnt him on purpose.
02:57So it stung James right back on the nose.
03:01Eeeeee!
03:03Whistled James.
03:05He had had enough.
03:07So had his fireman and driver.
03:08They didn't notice till too late that they had left all their coaches behind.
03:17They tried everything to get rid of the bees.
03:20First they spun on the turntable, but to no avail.
03:24They tried washing them off, but the bees clung harder to James' warm boiler.
03:29Then they tried smoking them off by going through a long tunnel, but still the bees wouldn't go away.
03:37It's no good, James, said his driver.
03:40We'll just have to go back to the orchard and fetch another hive.
03:44James' reply was drowned by the sound of buzzing.
03:47The vicar was waiting anxiously for James.
03:56When he arrived, the bees swarmed straight into their new home.
04:02Come on, James, said his driver.
04:04What you need now is a good hose down.
04:06Later that evening, James was resting in the shed when the vicar came to see him.
04:13Thank you for saving my bees, he said.
04:15It's a pity it's not Christmas.
04:17Then we could call you James the Red-Nosed Engine.
04:20Everyone laughed, even James.
04:23But instead, they decided to call James the Bee's Knees, which means they thought he was more useful than James.
