Ivor the Engine (1976) S01E01 The Railway

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00:00Not so very long ago in the top left-hand corner of Wales there was a railway. It wasn't a very

00:17long railway or a very important railway, but it was called the Merioneth and Atlantisilly

00:21Rail Traction Company Limited and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the

00:27end of the railway, lived the locomotive of the Merioneth and Atlantisilly Rail Traction

00:31Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine, so his friends just called him Ivor.

00:37Now in the morning, Jones the Steam, the engine driver, would come down over the hill.

00:42Morning Ivor, jumping cold this morning. He would take wood and paper and light Ivor's fire,

00:49fill up his coal box, check the water, and then when Ivor had steam up,

00:56he would make his pot of tea and sit on Ivor's step to drink it.

01:04Ah, well, right then, we'd better do some work, I suppose.

01:15Out they would trundle, out of the shed and out into the bright morning air.

01:19Jumping cold it was too that morning, but bright as a pin, and Ivor felt glad to be alive and

01:25steaming because little engines love the cold weather.

01:34Hello, the signal was against them. Oh, here's a how do you do.

01:40Owen's not awake yet. Give him a blow, Ivor.

01:46Is it early you are, Jones the Steam?

01:48No, it's late you are, Owen the signal. Pull your little lever back. We've got work to do.

01:52Up the hill into Lanyock Station. There's Di Station. Look waiting for them.

02:09Morning, Jones. Morning, Ivor.

02:11Morning, Di. What have you got for us this morning?

02:14Oh, nothing special. We better get some call up for grumbly gas works.

02:18There's a box of tomatoes for Mr. Davy at Tanny Gilch, and this bag of fish for Mrs. Thomas,

02:24you know, if you wouldn't mind. Oh, I don't mind. I'll take it in with Ivor.

02:28I wouldn't do that. She'll want it fresh, not fried. All right, then I'll put it on the call.

02:33She can have it black. Couple up the truck for me, Di. Right away then, Jones. Bye, Ivor.

02:48That was Ivor's favourite run along the top of the hill. He loved to look down the valley and see the

03:07trees and the stone walls and the horses and the sheep and the houses and the sea shining in the distance.

03:18Morning, Ivor. Morning, Mr. Jones. Morning, Mr. Pugh.

03:22Is it call you want, Mr. Jones? What else you got, Mr. Pugh? We've only got call, Mr. Jones.

03:28Right then, we'll have call. Well, that was just another day's work. As thy station said,

03:44nothing special. Mr. Davy got his tomatoes, Mrs. Thomas her fish. Thank you, Mr. Jones.

03:50You're welcome, Mrs. Thomas. And it was evening by the time they reached Grumbly Gasworks and delivered

04:02the coal. By then, it was time for choir practice. Evans the song was waiting for them. From the top,

04:12if you please.

04:24Oh, didn't I tell you? Ivor is a member of the Grumbly and District Choral Society.

04:29Very proud they are of Ivor in the Choral Society. Well, there's not many choirs have a locomotive

04:34singing first place. It's not at all usual, even in Wales.