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Thomas and the Magic Railroad is an 2000 British-American feature film based on the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Shining Time Station.

Directed and written by Britt Allcroft.
Take the magic journey.(taglines)

Dialogue

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[first lines]
Mr. Conductor: [voice only] Hello, I'm Mr. Conductor and I'm going to tell you a story about trains folks far apart and the Magic Railroad that brought them together. [first shot shows Thomas, a tank engine chuffs his way out of a tunnel] Every story like a railroad has its heroes. Meet Thomas. He's our number one hero.
Thomas: [whistle blows] Hello!
Mr. Conductor: [voice only] But he's running a little late today. This is the Island of Sodor where Thomas and his friends live. It's at one end of my special universe. [shot shows Henry pulling freight cars under a bridge] I like helping out here. By the invitation of Sir Topham Hatt, of course.
Gordon: [waits at the station] Five, six, seven, eight…
Thomas: [pulls up beside Gordon] Who do we appreciate? Practicing your numbers, Gordon. That's a good engine.
Gordon: I'm counting how many seconds late you are. What does that sign say?
Thomas: Hmm… [reads the sign] "Sodor Railway, really reliable and right on time. [Gordon scoffs] Signed, head of the railway, Sir Topham Hatt."
Gordon: But you weren't on time, little Thomas.
Thomas: And you're being bossy, Gordon. [Gordon scoffs again] Now, please excuse me. I'm meeting Mr. Conductor. He's looking after us while Sir Topham Hatt takes a much needed holiday.
Gordon: Oh, I think we can take care of ourselves.
Diesel 10: [rushes through the station] GET OUTTA MY WAY!!!! I have unfinished business here, and I wanna finish it FAST!
Gordon: [quivers in fright] D-Diesel 10's back!
Thomas: Yes, 10 out of 10 for devious deeds and brutal strength! The blast from the past who hates steam engines!
Gordon: Maybe we do need Mr. Conductor here after all. On time!
Diesel 10: Help you? [evil laugh] You always need help because steam engines are cowardly, cranky worn out hunks of metal who couldn't hurt a fly!
James: [a pet peeve (Sandal) is flying around his face] No, we're not!
Diesel 10: Yes, you are!
James: Aren't!
Diesel 10: Are! Now, I've come back to find a lost steam engine.
James: What?
Diesel 10: I'm gonna destroy her and dominate you! [Pinchy makes chomping noises] And then, you ain't nothing but useless scrap! Right, Pinchy?
Burnett Stone: [sees Patch with a flashlight] How did you find me here?
Patch: I found the entrance to your workshop ages ago, but I would never tell anybody.
Diesel 10: Not the one I want. She escaped me once before as long as she exists so do the others but if she can be destroyed…
Splatter: Destroyed?
Dodge: Did you say "destroyed"?
Splatter: The "d" word?
Dodge: Like hurt?
Diesel 10: Yeah, destroyed!
Splatter: Uh, there's one small problem; boss.
Dodge: Yeah, Mr. Conductor's coming, and he won't let you destroy her.
Splatter: He won't let you.
Diesel 10: I can do whatever I want! I'll get him too, with Pinchy! [Pinchy raises up high, makes chomping noises; hits him in the face] Ow! Pinchy, I hate it when you do that!
Mr. Conductor: Old Smokey, you stay right here 'til I get back! [to Mutt] There you are. Is something wrong here? [Mutt rolls his face at him] What kind of an answer is that? I'm going to be late. I'll get back as fast as I can. I have to concentrate now; Mutt. I'm suddenly having problems with my sparkle. [Mutt whines, looks away] Mutt? [bends down] Goodbye, Mutt. [Mutt barks] Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!
Lily: Grandpa's been so sad since Grandma Tasha died, and he never comes here to see us.
Mrs. Stone: Well, maybe your visit will cheer him up. Did you get his present?
Lily: Here. I'm making him a friendship bracelet.
Mrs. Stone: Honey, that's beautiful.
Lily: But I'd rather just stay here with you.
Mrs. Stone: I know. Come here. [she and Lily hug]
Lily: I'm gonna go up this way.
Mrs. Stone: Okay. Be careful.
Lily: You always say that.
Mrs. Stone: See you in a minute.
Lily: You're coming with me to Grandpa's, Bluebird. I know how much you like to travel.
Toby: What's important is to stand up on our own wheels to Diesel.
Henry: Toby's right. Diesel knows that the lost engine in the legend really exists.
James: What engine?
Percy: What legend?
Henry: Of an engine who's magic makes her more powerful than Diesel will ever be. That's why he wants to find her.
Percy: Then we'd better find her, first.
James: [puffs out of the shed] Leave it to the big engines, Percy.
Mr. Conductor: [picks up a phone after falling to the floor] Oh, good afternoon; sir! [stands up] A real honor, sir. Like my family before me. And how is Lady Hatt? Yes. Watch out for Diesel, definitely. Keep an eye on Henry's health; sir. Yes, sir. The 3 Rs. Reading, writing and arithmetic. I mean…I will be responsible… reliable… and really useful. Yes, sir, we will all get a good night's sleep. Looking forward to a hard day tomorrow. Goodbye, sir.
Mr. Conductor: [picks up a baseball bat; chuckles] So, who dropped the ball then? [catches a beach ball] Oh, there you are. I'd like a nice cup of hot cocoa. Would you fellas care to join me? No? What would you rather do instead? [to the beach ball] Go outside and play? Well, I can understand that. [to the bat] What do you think? [makes the bat hit the ball; mock disappointment] Why do you keep hitting him like that? You're gonna have to have a time out. [throws bat on his bed and makes his hot cocoa] [Diesel 10 appears and laughs evilly and Mr. Conductor sips cocoa] Just a little sweeter, I think. [adds sugar to cocoa]
Diesel 10: Alright, Pinchy, my little bucket of badness, time to feast yourself.
Mr. Conductor: [sips cocoa again, and is satisfied] Ahh. Now that's better. [Diesel 10 tears off part of the sheds] Whoa! [removes his night cap and puts on his conductor hat, as the steam engines wake up in alarm, and Diesel 10 tears off more of the sheds and laughs evilly] Ahh! Whoa!
Thomas: [alarmed] Cinders and ashes! It's Diesel!
Gordon: Diesel?! Oh, no!
Diesel 10: Hello, Twinkle Toes! I got a plan and you're not in it!
Mr. Conductor: You can't catch me, Diesel! [blows on his whistle twice, but only a little gold comes out of it]
Diesel 10: [laughs evilly] Losing your sparkle, huh? What perfect timing. Now where is that lost engine?
Mr. Conductor: You won't find her here.
Diesel 10: You're not clever enough to stop me.
Mr. Conductor: Oh, yes I am!
Diesel 10: No, you're not! Ah- [sees Mr. Conductor hold up a bag of sugar] What–?! Is that…?!
Mr. Conductor: That's right, it's sugar, Diesel! And if I throw this in your tank, it'll seize you up for good!
Diesel 10: [grunts and chuffs away] Make the most of tonight, Twinkle Toes, because you won't like tomorrow! Neither will that… that line of tin kettles! [to his claw] Oh, shut up, Pinchy!
Thomas: [after the diesel leaves] Mr. Conductor, but what happened to your sparkle?
Mr. Conductor: I don't know, Thomas, I'll just have to sleep on that.
Thomas: [confused] On your sparkle?
Mr. Conductor: No, Thomas. On the problem of what happened to it.
Percy: Oh, but Mr. Conductor, without your sparkle or the Lost Engine, you can't travel here to help us anymore.
Mr. Conductor: I'll solve the problem. You just go to sleep now.
Percy: Easy for you to say.
Mr. Conductor: [shocked, finding out Shining Time is in deep trouble] What's going wrong with our railroad and why? My universe is in danger! I've got to find more gold dust!
Mr. Conductor: [voice only, as Lily finds the right train at the station along with Mutt who joins in] Mutt was feeling pleased to himself. He had put Lily on the wrong train, but he knew he had done so for the right reasons.
[the train chuffs slowly as song plays]
Female Singer: ♪ I know how the moon must feel ♪
♪ Looking down from the heavens smiling at the silly things ♪
♪ We put ourselves through ♪ [cues Lily with the passengers]
♪ Missing magic each day and not seeing the wonder ♪
♪ That's how the moon must feel ♪
[cues the number 4 train on a field with some grain]
♪ I know how the moon must feel ♪
♪ When he makes someone happy ♪
♪ That's the feeling I will feel when you smile at me ♪
♪ I'll be floating on air ♪
♪ I'll be beaming with wonder ♪
♪ That's how the moon must feel ♪
Bertie: Smile, you steamers. It's a sunny day. Vroom-vroom!
James: It's not sunny, 'cause Mr. C's not at the windmill, I looked!
Thomas: I think his sparkle's all gone.
Henry: [stuffy] My smoke box doesn't feel sunny. It feels stuffed up.
Gordon: Nasty fumes from dingy Diesel. [chuckles]
Henry: And Diesel is after the lost engine.
Toby: And if he finds her, I fear that will destroy us all.
Gordon: What, even an engine as big as me?!
Toby: Yes, Gordon, even you.
Thomas: Ahh-choo!
James: Say it, don't spray it, Thomas!
Thomas: I've still got sneezing powder up my funnel. Now I'm going to look for Mr. Conductor!
Toby: Let us get back to work. That's the way he would want.
Bertie: How about a race, Thomas? [vrooms]
Thomas: Sorry, Bertie. I can't today. I need to be a really useful engine and solve some mysteries too, instead!
Bertie: I guess that means I win! Perhaps another day.
[Junior's shell phone rings]
Junior: [wakes up] That's my shell phone. [pulls off his headphones, and answers his shell phone] Hello?
Mr. Conductor: Junior? Junior, is that you?!
Junior: Oh, hi, Cous! Uh, are you in a tunnel? This isn't a very good line.
Mr. Conductor: Junior, where are you?!
Junior: Um, I'm in paradise. I just got in Cloud 9 and here I am.
Mr. Conductor: Junior, listen to me. You've got to come to the Island of Sodor RIGHT NOW!
Junior: Now? But I'm waiting on a perfect wave!
Mr. Conductor: Oh, no. You're not, you're coming here! [Junior sighs in annoyance] You have to help me find the source of all our family's gold dust.
Junior: What is the source?
Mr. Conductor: That's the trouble, Junior. I haven't a clue!
Junior: And I've used up most of my gold dust, too.
Mr. Conductor: [shocked] What?! [Junior sighs] Then go to Shining Time Station first. And in my signal-house in the box under the staircase, you'll find my emergency whistle with the last of my supply. Please take care of this, Junior, and… [quietly] Don't talk to anyone about the buffers.
Junior: What buffers? This is a really bad line! Hello! My shell phone's not working properly!
Mr. Conductor: Junior, you got to come here right away! I'm counting on you!
Junior: Hello?! [throws out his phone] I want my money back.
Mr. Conductor: [sleeping on the grass in front of some bushes. Images show Shining Time Station with bad weather; voice only, echoing] The magic is gone! [the ice cream cone on the sign tilts and image shows a road with the word "Stop" on it, a yellow balloon floats past it] Why did I take my gold dust for granted? [the phone booth the juggler was in is empty, balls were scattered all over the place] I can't help without my gold dust. [the bouquet is tilting, the bridge begins to crumble] What is the source of my gold dust? [last shot shows Lady's wheels and coupling rods] Is someone there? Thomas, is that you?
Thomas: Mr. Conductor! Mr. Conductor!
Mr. Conductor: Thomas?
Thomas: Oh, Mr. Conductor; where are you?
Mr. Conductor: [downbeat] Thomas? [no response] How can I possibly say that I'm really useful now?
Thomas: [thought of what Mr. Conductor said] The journey gets bumpier and bumpier. That's what Mr. Conductor told me.
Diesel 10: It's time to finally put Twinkle Toes' lights out. This is a job FOR THE BOSS! [Pinchy chomps]
Toby: I've got to delay him. I'm going to distract him. Hmm…hmm… [rings his bell]
Diesel 10: It's the old teapot! Smash him! [Pinchy raises up high]
Splatter: Smash him? Hold on, boss!
Dodge: You shouldn't push that! [Pinchy pushed the shed, the roof traps them underneath]
[Pinchy chomps the roof]
Diesel 10: Pinchy, get back here! Don't make me come up here! I hate it when you do that!
Toby: [chuffs backward] Good show!
Splatter: Uh, boss?
Dodge: Did you mean to let the roof fall in?
Splatter: All the way in?
Diesel 10: I always mean what I do, you rattletraps! [groans]
[song plays as Percy pulls the cattle cars in front of the windmill and Toby pulls Henrietta at dawn]
Mr. Conductor: [voice only] Diesel was in a dump, but the steam engines were still right on track.
[Thomas bumps freight cars as Percy pulls them]
Singers: ♪ He's a really useful engine, you know ♪
♪ All the other engines, they'll tell you so ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel past a Sir Topham Hatt sign]
♪ He huffs and puffs and whistles, rushing to and fro ♪ [Henry pulls the coaches at Killaban Station]
♪ He's a really useful engine, we adore ♪ [Henry chuffs slowly in a siding behind Butch]
♪ He's a really useful engine, you know ♪ [James pulls out of the Smelter's Yard with a load of pipes who chuffs into the smelter's yard with empty cars while Toby chuffs through the countryside with Henrietta]
♪ Cause the Fat Controller, he told him so ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel past a station]
♪ Now he's got a branch line to call his very own ♪ [James pulls express underneath the water tower and Gordon chuffs out of the tunnel with the express]
♪ He's a really useful engine, we adore ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel passing other trains at Knapford Station]
♪ He's the one ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel behind the windmill]
♪ He's the number one, Thomas the Tank Engine ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel over a bridge]
♪ He's a really useful engine ♪ [Thomas pulls Annie and Clarabel passing Toby and Henrietta]
♪ We adore ♪
Thomas: [chuffs backwards past a Sir Topham Hatt sign and passes a sick Henry] Morning, Henry. What's the matter?
Henry: I've got… [sniffs] boiler ache.
Thomas: And I'm collecting one, two, three, four, five, six trucks of special Island of Sodor coal for you.
Henry: Oh, thank you, Thomas. Special coal will make me feel [sneezes] much better!
Thomas: [backs into the trucks] I wish I could make Mr. Conductor feel better too by finding him.
[the sixth truck goes zooming into a pair of buffers with a nearby tumbleweed and disappears into them; Thomas pulls the remaining trucks as Bertie passes by]
Bertie: Hello, Thomas and your five coal trucks! Vroom-vroom!
Thomas: Five? But I'm supposed to have six.
Diesel 10: [to Mr. Conductor] Okay, Twinkle Toes. I know about the buffers.
Mr. Conductor: [notices the bridge crumbling] That's what I saw in my dream! It's coming true! My universe is starting to crumble!
Diesel 10: And I know about the magic railway. And when I find that engine, you and all those puffballs will be history. Now tell me where the buffers are now! [Mr. Conductor grabs a blue pair of scissors] You got 10 seconds!
Splatter: Uh, so Boss?
Dodge: How come you let Twinkle Toes escape?
Diesel 10: Oh, that. Uh…why, I did that on purpose; you know. I was testing him to see if he could escape.
Splatter: Liar, liar.
Dodge: Pants on fire.
Splatter: Does he wear pants?
Dodge: Well, training pants.
Diesel 10: All right! Playtime's over, Splodge!
Splatter/Dodge: Uh oh!
Diesel 10: Now it's time for the next lesson. I call it "How to stop being stupid". [Pinchy raises the high level on the quarry tower, causing the tower to spill coal all over him as the other engines laugh at him] Oh, well that's gonna ruin my facial!
Junior: We're traveling miles and miles to the Island. But I don't know if this railroad's gonna last much longer. It'll vanish like the engine!
Lily: What engine?
Junior: The engine that used to travel on this railroad. Cous and I never saw it. I don't know what happened to it. [sees the coal truck Thomas bumped earlier] Hey, what's that doing here?
Junior: Hey, Cous! What's up, enjoying the sun?
Mr. Conductor: No, Junior. I'm not. As a matter of fact, I just escaped here after a heavy metal monster! Junior, where have you been?
Diesel 10: [sees Junior who landed on the roof after riding the Sodor Grain Windmill] Aha! Twinkle Toes Junior!
Junior: [as the beach bag falls off his shoulder] Oh, no! My beach bag!
Diesel 10: You won't be doing any surfing up here, Mr. Kahuna!
Junior: Really? Watch me.
Diesel 10: Hang on tight, Moon Doggy!
Percy: [puffs into the night by Diesel 10's Mountain] I am brave. I am brave. Thomas says I'm brave, so I'm brave. Oh, it's not easy being brave. [sees Splatter and Dodge at the buffers] Shiver my pistons. There's Splatter and Dodge. Oh, they found the buffers! Oh, now what's going to happen? [a flock of birds fly by a tree] Ohh!
Tumbleweed: [rolls along] Hey, partner. Excuse me, coming through, pardon me.
Percy: Oh, that's just nothing. [a shed door opens slowly, then closes quickly] That nothing was something!
Splatter: These must be the buffers Diesel's looking for.
Dodge: Are we supposed to go through them?
Splatter: Not we, you.
Dodge: Not me, you.
Splatter: This is a job for the boss. [an owl hoots, scaring them] We'll tell him tomorrow.
Dodge: Yeah, tomorrow's good.
Percy: [backs away] Oh, I'd better hurry back and warn Thomas.
[while approaching the old magic buffers]
Thomas: I promise I'll get you home to your grandpa, Lily.
Tumbleweed: [starts leading Thomas to the buffers] Follow me, partner!
Thomas: Whoa!
Tumbleweed: Right this way to Bufferville, just a walk in the park!
Thomas: We're going though, Lily.
Tumbleweed: You're on your own from here on in, little blue buckaroo! Yee-hoo! [bounces off the track]
Thomas: Little engines can do big things! [passes through the magic buffers]
Junior: I'm sorry, Lily. I'm sorry, Cous. I haven't been whatever it is - responsible, reliable and really useful, but I will be! [smoke hisses from inside the Ironworks] I will be! [James screams, Diesel 10 skids to a halt and catapults on him] James! [grabs out his whistle trying to escape, but his magic fails]
Diesel 10: Ah! So you lost your sparkle too, huh? Bye bye, Twinkle Toes!
Junior: [realizes his whistle lost all his gold dust] Oh, it's empty.
Diesel 10: Here we go!
James: Junior, what are we gonna do?
Junior: We'll think of something!
Diesel 10: [as James chuffs back away from him along with Junior] That's it.
Junior: I found you some more, Lily. I promise. If I'm gonna be any help at all, it's now or never. I've got to use up the rest of this stuff.
Diesel 10: Are you ready?
James: No, we're not!
Junior: James, the brains. Get us out of here! [blows his whistle]
James: Now we are!
Diesel 10: [seeing that Junior and James vanished] What the…?
Lady: [gets her face in the Magic Railroad] So, Burnett, you didn't forget about magic. It's safe inside you. [later; Thomas toots]
Lily: Thomas!
Thomas: You found her, and she's beautiful!
[after Thomas comes out of the Magic Buffers, Diesel 10, Splatter, and Dodge can see him with Lady]
Diesel 10: Aha! There's the blue puffball, and look who he's with! Splodge, come and destroy!
Splatter: No, you do it yourself.
Dodge: We don't like you.
Splatter: Yeah, we mean that.
Dodge: Emphatically.
Splatter: Yeah. What does that mean?
Dodge: I have no idea.
Splatter: It's a good word.
Thomas: Run, Lady! Quickly, and I'm going to help you!
Burnett: [walking on board Lady's cab] So am I, my Lady. I'll not let you down again.
Diesel 10: Ahh, who needs you, Splodge?
Burnett Stone: Well done, Thomas! Well done!
[Thomas whistles after escaping from the damaged Big Dipper]
Diesel 10: [seeing the broken Big Dipper] Huh? What's going on? Hold it! No! Hold it! [falls off and Pinchy grabs the sleeper] Puffball! Teapot! [the sleeper breaks] TIN KETTLE! [lands into a barge filled with sludge] Oh, well. Nice time of a year for a cruise! [chuckles nervously]
[back at the Sodor Wishing Well]
Thomas: But Mr. Conductor, you still don't have your gold dust.
Lady: I think he will soon.
[the conductors finally get their supply of magic gold dust]
Thomas: Lady, you're a helpful engine.
Lady: And helping each other brings to life the magic in all of us.
[last lines]
Mr. Conductor: [narrating] And so we've come to the happy end of our story, and it's time for all of us to go home, just like Thomas.

Taglines

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  • Pulling into theaters everywhere July 2000.
  • Take the magic journey.
  • Little Engines Can Do Big Things…

Cast

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Live-action

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Voices

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  • Eddie Glen - Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Neil Crone - Diesel 10, Splatter, Gordon the Big Express Engine and a tumbleweed (uncredited)
  • Kevin Frank - Dodge, Henry the Green Engine, Bertie the Bus and Harold the Helicopter
  • Britt Allcroft - Lady the Magical Engine
  • Linda Ballantyne - Percy the Small Engine
  • Susan Roman - James the Red Engine
  • Colm Feore - Toby the Tram Engine
  • Shelley-Elizabeth Skinner — Annie and Clarabel
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia
  Television series     Thomas & Friends (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24)  (1984-2021) · Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go  (2021-present)
  Feature film     Thomas and the Magic Railroad  (2000)
  Special films     Calling All Engines! (2004) · The Great Discovery  (2007) · Hero of the Rails  (2009) · Misty Island Rescue  (2010) · Day of the Diesels  (2011) · Blue Mountain Mystery  (2012) · King of the Railway  (2013) · Tale of the Brave  (2014) · The Adventure Begins  (2014) · Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure  (2015) · The Great Race  (2016) · Journey Beyond Sodor  (2017) · Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)
  Related     The Railway Series  (1945-2011) · Shining Time Station  (1989-1995) · Tugs  (1989)
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