Diesel and the New Engine

***Diesel and the New Engine*** is the eighth episode of the ninth series.

## Plot

At Tidmouth Sheds, the Fat Controller announces that a new engine named Patrick had arrived on the island and that the others must make him feel welcome. Later, Diesel was warned by a signalman about a broken bridge, so Diesel went to collect some ironwork from the yard, where Patrick was with Donald and Douglas. Patrick reversed up to his trucks and bumps into them. This gave Donald and Douglas a chance to laugh at Patrick and insult him. At that moment, Diesel arrived, and saw Patrick with Donald and Douglas and thought Patrick was friends with the steam engines.

At Knapford, Diesel met D199 and told him about seeing Patrick laughing with Donald and Douglas. This news shocked D199. Then, as Diesel left, BoCo arrived, so D199 told him about Patrick too. Later, while taking on fuel, BoCo told Dennis that Patrick was best friends with the steamies and didn’t want to be with diesels. Later, when Dennis met Daisy at a red signal, he mixed up BoCo's warning. He warned her not to go near Patrick as the Scottish twin engines had told him to biff all the diesels.

At Abbey, Diesel had just been told by the Fat Controller to warn engines not to cross the broken bridge when he heard a diesel engine's horn, which turned out to be Patrick pulling some coaches. Patrick says hello to Diesel, but Diesel rudely tells him that he wasn’t talking to him. Then Daisy pulled up along side Patrick. Patrick says hello to her too, but Daisy was also cross with Patrick as she thought that he was going to biff all the diesels, much to Diesel's surprise. Patrick didn’t know what he did. But as soon as the guard blew his whistle, Patrick rolled sadly away towards the iron bridge still under repair.

After Patrick left, Diesel was puzzled and asked Daisy where she got the information from. Daisy told him that Dennis told her, and BoCo told Dennis, and D199 told BoCo and Diesel told D199. But Diesel explained that he only said to D199 that he only saw Patrick with Donald and Douglas. Just then, Salty rolled in looking very unhappy. He told Diesel and Daisy that Class 40 saw Donald and Douglas being horrible to Patrick. Diesel and Daisy were very shocked, and they realise that Patrick wasn’t friends with the Scottish twins after all. Diesel then suddenly realised that Patrick was heading towards the broken bridge and set of quickly to stop him.

Patrick was racing through the countryside as fast as he could. As he reached the iron bridge, he saw the barrier ahead. He tried to stop, but was too late. He bashed and smashed through the barricade and stopped, hanging over the edge of the broken bridge. Soon Diesel raced up, buffered up to the Brake Coach, and slowly pulled Patrick back to safety. Patrick thanked Diesel for rescuing him, and Diesel apologised for believing silly stories about him. And Patrick was happy to have finally made friends with Diesel.

## Characters

* Diesel
* BoCo
* Diesel 199
* Dennis
* Salty
* Daisy
* Patrick
* Donald and Douglas
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Class 40 (*does not speak*)
* Diesel 10 (*cameo*)
* Trevor (*cameo*)
* Toby (*cut; mentioned role possibly replaced by Class 40*)

## Trivia

* This episode has a similarly to the eleventh episode, Thomas and the New Engine from the ninth series of *Thomas & Friends*.
* This episode marks:
	+ Donald, Douglas and Trevor's only appearances in the ninth series.
	+ Patrick’s only appearance until the twelfth series episode, Best Friends.
* Toby was originally meant to have a role in this episode. But he was later cut for unknown reasons.