00:00It was an important day in the yard. Everyone was busy and excited, making notes and taking photographs.
00:11A special visitor had arrived and was now the center of attention.
00:19Who is that? whispered Thomas to Duck.
00:23That, said Duck proudly, is a celebrity.
00:26A what? asked Percy.
00:27A celebrity is a very famous engine, replied Duck. Driver says we can talk to him soon.
00:34Oh, said Thomas, he's probably too famous to even notice us.
00:40Just then, Gordon arrived.
00:43Huh, said Gordon. Who cares? A lot of fuss about nothing, if you ask me.
00:49And he steamed away.
00:50Later that night, the engines found that the visitor wasn't conceited at all.
00:58He enjoyed talking to the other engines till long after the stars came out.
01:04He left early next morning. Gordon was still complaining.
01:09Good riddance, he grumbled, chattering all night. Who is he anyway?
01:13Duck told you, replied Thomas. He's famous.
01:17As famous as me? Nonsense.
01:20He's famouser than you. He went a hundred miles an hour before you were even thought of.
01:25Huh, so he says, huffed Gordon. But I didn't like his looks.
01:29He's got no dome. Never trust domeless engines. They're not respectable.
01:34I never boast, but I'd say a hundred miles an hour would be easy for me.
01:39Goodbye.
01:42Duck took some freight cars to Edward's station.
01:46Hello, called Edward.
01:47That famous engine came through this morning. He whistled to me. Wasn't he kind?
01:52He's the finest engine in the world, replied Duck.
01:55Then he told Edward what Gordon had said.
01:59Take no notice, soothed Edward. He's just jealous.
02:02He thinks no engine should be famous but him.
02:05Look, he's coming now.
02:08Gordon was running very fast. His wheels pounded the rails.
02:14He did it, I'll do it. He did it, I'll do it.
02:18Gordon's train rocketed past and was gone.
02:22He'll knock himself to bits, chuckled Duck.
02:32Gordon's driver eased him off.
02:34Steady, Gordon. We aren't running a race.
02:37We are, then, said Gordon.
02:39But he said it to himself.
02:44Suddenly, Gordon began to feel a little strange.
02:47The top of my boiler seems funny, he thought.
02:50It feels as if something is loose.
02:52I'd better go slower.
02:54But it was too late.
02:56On the viaduct, they met the wind.
02:59It was a teasing wind, which blew suddenly in hard puffs.
03:03Gordon thought it wanted to push him off the bridge.
03:06No, you don't, he said firmly.
03:08But the wind had other ideas.
03:11It curled round his boiler, crept under his loose dome,
03:14and lifted it off on the way into the valley below.
03:19Gordon was most uncomfortable.
03:21The cold wind was whistling through the hole where his dome should be,
03:25and he felt silly without it.
03:31At the big station, the freight cars laughed at him.
03:37Gordon tried to wheeesh them away.
03:41But they crowded round no matter what he did.
03:46On the way back to the shed,
03:48he wanted his driver to stop and fetch his dome.
03:51We'll never find it now, said the driver.
03:53You'll have to go to the works for a new one.
03:57Gordon was very cross.
03:59I hope the shed is empty tonight, he huffed to himself.
04:14But all the engines were there waiting.
04:16Never trust dome-less engines, said a voice from somewhere behind him.
04:26They aren't respectable.
04:27They aren't respectable.
