Gordon, Narrator and others in “Tenders and Turntables”

Well, well! Are you playing roundabouts?

Poor James feeling quite giddy rolled off to the shed without a word. That night, the three engines had an indignation meeting.

It's shameful to treat tender engines like this, Gordon has to go backwards and people think he's a tank engine, James spins around like a top and everyone laughs at us! And to add to that, the Fat Controller makes us all shunt in dirty sidings.

Blegh! Listen.

He whispered something to the others.

We'll do it tomorrow. The Fat Controller will look silly.

The engines had decided to go on strike.