Don't Stop

**Don't Stop** is a song from the twenty-third series episode, Steam Team to the Rescue! The first verse plays as the steam engines perform various jobs on the railway in place of the incapacitated diesels. A reprise is heard as the Steam Team help sort out the trouble at the docks.

## Lyrics

**Thomas:** Don't stop, keep on moving!
Steam's hot, it keeps us cruising!
Helping each other every day!
With extra loads of cargo
Moving up and down the tracks!
We're grunting and we're shunting
There's no time to relax!
**Thomas and Henry:** We have to keep on keeping on
Like a well-oiled machine!
**Thomas:** With the diesels out of action
**Thomas and Rebecca:** There's no time for daydreams!
**Thomas, Nia, Annie and Clarabel:** Don't stop! Let's work together!
'Cause our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
There's nothing standing in our way!
**Rebecca:** (spoken) It's not even noon and I'm already exhausted!
**Thomas:** (spoken) Keep going! You're doing great!
**James:** (spoken) Looks like it's another trip to the washdown for me!
**Thomas:** We're doing our best!
**Thomas and Rebecca:** We work as a team!
**Thomas, James and Rebecca:** We don't stop to rest!
**Thomas, James, Emily and Rebecca:** We've got the power of steam!
**All:** Don't stop! Keep on moving!
Steam's hot! It keeps us cruising!
Helping each other every day!
Don't stop! Let's work together!
'Cause our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
There's nothing standing in our way!
No not today! No not today!
There's nothing in our way!
No not today! And we won't stop!
### Reprise

**All:** Don't stop! Keep on moving!
The Steam Team! Keeps on cruising!
Helping each other every day!
When a best friend is in trouble
None of us will rest!
Engines helping engines
Using every ounce that's left!
Pushing to the finish line
Yeah, we'll keep on keeping on!
When the Steam Team works together
We're always pulling strong!
Don't stop! Let's work together!
Because our steam's hot! We'll go on forever!
There's nothing standing in our way!
**Thomas:** (spoken) Percy, I'm so sorry I didn't come to help you sooner like I promised!
**Percy:** (spoken) No worries, Thomas! I forgive you!
**All:** We're not giving up!
Gonna see this long day through!
The moon lights our way
Until the end is in view!
Don't stop! Keep on moving!
The Steam Team! Keeps on cruising!
Helping each other every day!
Don't stop! Let's work together!
We're the Steam Team! We'll go on forever!
There's nothing standing in our way!
No not today! No not today!
There's nothing in our way!
No not today! And we won't stop!
## Characters

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Toby
* Emily
* Caitlin
* Nia
* Rebecca
* Luke
* Annie and Clarabel
* Rosie (*cameo*)
* Stanley (*cameo*)
* 'Arry and Bert (*cameo*)
* Merrick (*cameo*)
* Owen (*cameo*)
* Sir Topham Hatt (*cameo*)

### Reprise

* Thomas
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Emily
* Nia
* Rebecca
* Belle (*cameo*)
* Flynn (*cameo*)
* Harold (*cameo*)
* Butch (*cameo*)
* Captain (*cameo*)
* Cranky (*cameo*)
* Carly (*cameo*)
* Big Mickey (*cameo*)
* Sir Topham Hatt (*cameo*)

## Locations

* Knapford Station Yard
* Knapford Yards
* Crosby Tunnel
* Knapford
* Blue Mountain Quarry
* Wellsworth
* Gordon's Hill
* The Washdown (*mentioned*)

### Reprise

* Brendam Docks
* Sodor Shipping Company

## Cast

### UK

* John Hasler as Thomas
* Keith Wickham as Edward\*, Gordon and Henry (Kerry Shale as Henry during the last 2 verses)\*
* Rachael Miller as Rebecca
* Yvonne Grundy as Nia
* Teresa Gallagher as Emily, Annie\* and Clarabel\*
* Rob Rackstraw as James and Toby\*
* Michael Legge as Luke\*
* Jules de Jongh as Caitlin\*
* Nigel Pilkington as Percy

### US

* Joseph May as Thomas
* William Hope as Edward\* and Toby\*
* Kerry Shale as Gordon and Henry\*
* Rachael Miller as Rebecca
* Yvonne Grundy as Nia
* Teresa Gallagher as Annie\* and Clarabel\*
* Rob Rackstraw as James
* Jules de Jongh as Emily and Caitlin\*
* Michael Legge as Luke\*
* Christopher Ragland as Percy

*\* indicates not in reprise*

## Trivia

* This is the first series-original song to be sung by the characters in a television series episode.
* Unlike Big World! Big Adventures!, Yvonne Grundy, who performs as Nia's speaking voice, sings in this song, while in Big World! Big Adventures!, Patricia Kihoro performed Nia's singing roles.
* Stanley was the only Steam Team member (current or former) to not sing in the song. Likewise, Caitlin and Luke were the only non-Steam Team engines to sing it.

## Goofs

* In the UK version, James has his US voice when he starts singing and Henry's US voice can be heard after he and Gordon sing "Helping each other every day".