Edward, Gordon and Henry

**Edward, Gordon and Henry** is the first Seventyverse standalone story. Chronologically, it's the second story of the revamped series 1.

## Plot

The story starts at Tidmouth sheds, where Edward, Gordon and James had just woken up. An argument ensues about James' wooden brakes and his capabilities of taking trains, which later diverges to being about Henry being afraid of the rain. Unfortunately, with James and Gordon being very unsympathetic, Edward was getting nowhere.

Edward finds Annie and Clarabel in the coach siding a few moments later. The coaches speculate that Henry wasn't simply afraid of the rain, but rather the thunder and lightning. Edward thanks the coaches for the insight and decided to get back to work. Sir Topham Hatt showed up a moment later, saying Edward had to take a local train. He even tells Edward he can take Annie and Clarabel with him. Edward agrees.

Annie and Clarabel are glad Edward's taking them, and lament that James is rough with them. Edward wishes he were more careful. The coaches and Edward wait at the station, and the guard is late. The stationmaster hadn't seen the guard, and the Porter had - last night! Thankfully, a little boy sees guard and they are able to begin.

Despite the slow start, Edward ends up having a lovely day. He sees Henry at the tunnel and looks sympathetically at him. Henry is miserable, but Edward cheers him up slightly. He and the coaches wish there was something that could be done to help. Besides the Midi quintet and the electric engines, Edward could only really open himself up to Henry. Annie and Clarabel were great, but they weren't really *his* coaches. He still agreed to take them out the following day, as he feels comfort with them.

At the sheds that night, James accuse Edward of taking *his* coaches, but Edward reminds him Annie and Clarabel aren't actually his. Gordon tells the two engines to stop arguing. They do, but Edward wished Henry was there...

A few days later, Gordon was taking the express, and Sir Topham was aboard the train. Gordon pulls the train very proudly as usual. He was going to whistle at Henry and tell him it served him right. However, Gordon broke down and steam wheeshed everywhere. Henry started laughing at this. Sir Topham Hatt reprimands Gordon for not going to the Steamworks, and phones for another engine at once.

Edward, having delivered Dexter to the Steamworks after a breakdown, was the only one available. Julie was sent to the yards to shunt for him. The smaller blue engine tried to pull the train, but he wasn't strong enough. James, Johnson and Lauren were too busy, and Julie, Nicole and Katie weren't strong enough. Gordon suggests letting Henry try, and Sir Topham Hatt agreed. His joints were stiff, and he headed to a turntable. Henry confides in his driver about being afraid of a lightning strike. Henry's driver admits he was nearly struck by lightning as a kid, and he related to Henry's fear. Henry agrees to talk to Edward about things.

Henry then backed down onto the express, and he and Edward pull the train together. They do well, and Henry tells Edward the truth. On top of his fear of lightning, he was suffering from steaming problems. Edward assures him it's nothing to be ashamed of, and he promises not to tell Gordon or James. Sir Topham Hatt leans his head out the coach window and looses his signature top hat. It flies into a goat's field, and the goat eats it for tea. Edward and Henry find it amusing, but their controller doesn't.

Sir Topham Hatt praises both engines for their efforts and he decides to get Henry repainted. He jokes about Henry being repainted blue, but Henry politely declines.

The workmen are tearing the brick wall down, and Gordon is sadly watching, thinking it was karma for being rude to Henry. Edward and Henry arrive and take Gordon back to the Steamworks, with Gordon apologising.

At the Steamworks, Skarloey and Rheneas are there to greet them. The engines lament the loss of Glynn, their former No. 1 and one of the Coffee Pots made by Sir Topham Hatt himself. Edward thinks of who will be the NWR's new number 1, but the answer may come sooner than they think...

## Characters

* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Glynn (mentioned)
* Annie and Clarabel
* Dexter
* Sir Bertram Topham Hatt
* Skarloey
* Rheneas
* Johnson (Mentioned)
* Lauren (Mentioned)
* Julie (Mentioned)
* Nicole (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Katie (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Carole (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Stevie (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Lisa (Mentioned, unnamed)

## Differences between the episode, book and this series

### Edward's Day Out

* Edward takes Annie and Clarabel on his passenger train. The story plays out very much the same, aside from this fact, and the fact Edward was not stuck in the sheds. Annie and Clarabel may have very well been on Edward’s train in the books too, we may never know.
* The argument with Edward, James and Gordon is extended in the shed. Furthermore, James was replaced by another red engine, unnamed, in the book (as he wasn’t on Sodor yet) and Henry was present. As this takes place during the events of *The Sad Story of Henry*, he’s absent here.
* One of the Midland engines, Julie, is brought in to take over Edward shunting in the yards. In the book, Thomas would have been the station pilot at the time.

### Edward, Gordon and Henry

* The beginning of the story has Gordon and Edward going through the other tunnel saying “serves you right” and “hello” respectively. While elements from this are used, Edward going through the tunnel is shown in the Edward’s Day Out portion.
* Edward is down at Crovan’s Gate when he gets the message about Gordon. In the book, he was most likely in the yards.
* Gordon’s remark about Sir Topham Hatt choosing Henry was a bit more snarky in the book and episode.
* James, Johnson and Lauren were suggested as candidates for the express, but they were too busy, and the other Midland engines - Katie, Julie and Nicole, wouldn’t be strong enough.

## Voice cast

* Keith Wickham as Edward, Henry, Gordon, Skarloey and Sir Bertram Topham Hatt
* Rob Rackstraw as James
* Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
* Mark Moraghan as Dexter
* Ben Small as Rheneas

## Links

* DeviantArt
* FanFiction.net

## Trivia

* This is one of the few episodes which doesn't have any fan chosen cast members.