Thomas & Friends (series 14) facts for kids

Thomas is called upon to deliver a giraffe to the zoo, but is too excited to wait for its keeper.

James refuses to be fitted with an old fashioned lamp at night, leading to confusion and delay.

Emily feels that all of the engines have been given special jobs except her.

Edward tries to show Charlie that not too old to have fun, but forgets to do his job.

Toby has to deliver coal to the summerhouse but is afraid of going through The Whistling Woods.

Henry causes chaos on Sodor when he takes a piece of advice from Victor to heart.

Diesel swaps his dull load of slate for some shiny red apples in order to please the schoolchildren.

Thomas is amused by the popping sounds coming from his delivery of lemonade, and takes a bumpy track to hear the noise again.

Victor bites off more than he can chew when he agrees to fix almost every engine on Sodor in one day.

The Island Inspector pays a visit to Sodor, but Thomas' ambitious plans to impress him lead to chaos and flying coal trucks, but eventually corrects all of his mistakes to make the railway on Sodor a good railway for the inspector in the end, and knows he shouldn't have focused of making chaos, but that to impress the inspector, they all had just to do their work as usual, because that's what makes any engine very useful.

Percy decides to imitate wise old Gordon in order to win the respect of the other engines.

Thomas delivers the Star of Knapford, a festive light that makes wishes come true, and what every engine wished is that they would be together under the Star of Knapford at Knapford station, including being with Thomas also, at Knapford station.

It's close to Christmas, and some children is missing a hat for their snowman; so Thomas decides to help them by looking for a hat. He comes across many different hats, but it later appears that they all belonged to important people that was also going to attend the Christmas party. In the end, Sir Topham Hatt gives the children his old hat, since he has got a new one now as a gift.

The Fat Controller enlists Thomas to teach the silly Logging Locos how to be useful, but he has already promised to play a game of hide and seek with Percy.

Thomas and Edward are ordered to collect some precious Jobi wood from Misty Island. Chaos ensues when Old Wheezy starts throwing the logs everywhere, but Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand save the day.

A new engine arrives on Sodor to help Whiff at the Waste Dump, but when Scruff is about to get himself cleaned; he flies away and hides behind bushes and Thomas tries to get help from the other engines, but it doesn't work. Eventually he figures it out himself, and he brings Scruff to Whiff's waste dump and Whiff and Scruff get to work with the rubbish trucks. Thomas realises that Scruff is like Whiff, liking rubbish shunting, and actually being dirty.

Gordon is put in charge of Whiff's Waste Dump on Clean Sodor Day, but he doesn't want the other engines to see him at the wastedump, so every time an engine comes to the wastedump with a truck of rubbish, Gordon finds a place to hide, until the Fat Controller arrives and reassures Gordon that everyone sometimes has to do things they don't like, and in this case all the engines who has been at the wastedump, had done so, too.

Thomas takes Dowager Hatt on a slow tour of Misty Island, but the Dowager wants to have a more exciting trip, and eventually it becomes more exciting for her when she gets a faster run on Misty Island. And when she returns to see Sir Topham Hatt, she states she had a wonderful time with Thomas on this trip.

Bash, Dash and Ferdinand decide to throw a Christmas party, but before long the logging locos have caused chaos on Misty Island, but eventually with the help of the Steam Team and Sir Topham Hatt, it becomes a good Christmas on Misty Island after all.

One day Henry must help the Fat Controller with a surprise for Christmas, which is contained in a box that Henry picks up at Brendam Docks. But when he comes back for the box at the farm, he can't find it and he goes on a search for it. Finally, he realises that all the trees he has been seeing popping up at the farm, were actually what was in the box itself.