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Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 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.
Thomas: Little engines can do big things, especially when they have nice blue paint like me.
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's 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 coal tower, causing it to spill coal all over him as the other engines laugh at him] Oh, well that's gonna ruin my facial!
Patch: [finds Lily sitting on the bank of a stream throwing grass at the water] Bet you can't climb that tree!
[Lily gets up and walks over to the tree. Grabbing hold of the tire swing, Lily climbs up onto the tire and onto its rope. Patch watches her as she shimmies up the rope, and sits on the branch and looks down smiling at him. Patch looks at Lily and shakes his head in amusement and races over to the tree as Lily climbs down the tree]
Lily: [climbs off the tire swing] See?
Patch: Where'd you learn to do that?
Lily: From my fire escape.
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]
[Thomas and Lily arrive on a cliff on Muffle Mountain]
Thomas: Lily, where are we?
Lily: Muffle Mountain, Thomas.
Thomas: I think I feel a... a little dizzy. [Lily jumps out of Thomas' cab] I can't go any further! My wheels won't let me!
Lily: Then I'll be back, Thomas. I promise, but I must find Grandpa! [Lily runs off]
Thomas: It's getting windy up here!
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 for the tumbleweed)
  • 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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