Driver, Edward and others in “Edward's Exploit”

We've loosened the couplings, Edward. Now you can pick up your coaches one by one, just as you do with trucks.

That'll be much easier. Come on!

The first coach moving helped to start the second and the second helped the third.

I've done it! I've done it!

Steady, boy. Well done, boy. You've got them, you've got them.

And he listened happily to Edward's steady beat, as he forged slowly but surely ahead. At last, battered, weary, but unbeaten, Edward steamed in the big station.