In Rev. W. Awdry‘s story, James and the Bootlace (the second story in James the Red Engine, book 3 of the Railway Series), James is rough with the coaches and snaps a brake pipe, stopping a train. The crew ask the passengers for a leather bootlace, eventually get one, and mend the train. Yesterday, The driver of a broken-down train appealed to his passengers for sticky tape to help him carry out repairs
because an exterior air pipe came loose
. This happened on a Midland Mainline train to Nottingham. Unlike the Sodor incident, the passengers couldn’t help and a fitter had to be called out.
Cows and stuff