No Steel and No Work

**No Steel and No Work** is the fourth episode of the first season.

## Plot

The engines on Sodor were keeping themselves busy, but over on the Mainland, it's a whole lot busier as there are more engines and a larger island. At the Manchester Canal, Frankie is collecting some equipment for the Steelworks while Hurricane has to wait for his trucks to be filled with fuel for the engines that work there. Frankie says that she will be back at the Steelworks first, which Hurricane does not like, so the big brown tank engine races after the diesel without waiting for the fuel shipment to be loaded.

With only a train of empty trucks, Hurricane makes it back to the Steelworks first. Lexi realises that Hurricane has not received the fuel delivery and tells him that she and Frankie need oil and diesel fuel to work. But Hurricane points out that Theo and Merlin didn't need that kind of fuel, as they normally take on coal and water. He then tells Lexi that he is sure the oil tank is still pretty full, but Lexi is still concerned. Hurricane promises to go back for the fuel shipment...eventually. Theo and Merlin tell Hurricane and Frankie that Lexi is right and that they should try not to waste any fuel as they had a big order of steel to complete. When it was time to work, Frankie directed Theo to shunt the trucks onto the slag heap and Hurricane to bring the empty flatbeds inside the building, while Lexi and Merlin take the loaded ones outside into the sidings. But it wasn't going well as, Theo and Lexi were getting in a muddle.

Soon, it was time for Frankie and Lexi to be refueled. Unfortunately, because they couldn't go anywhere, the fuel tank was empty. Frankie blames Hurricane for not collecting the fuel earlier. But as the big tank engine hurried off to the canal, he shuddered to a stop and realised he had ran out of water. Lexi is not happy as there are no steel deliveries to be made and no work to be done. As they look at Theo, Hurricane kindly asks the little traction engine to shunt him to the water tower so he can be refilled again. When Theo struggled to push Hurricane to the water tower, Merlin set off to make one half of the delivery and would also fetch the fuel from the canal. When Hurricane was refilled with enough water, he delivered the other half of the steel. Soon, Merlin arrives at the canal with his last load of steel and couples up to waiting fuel trucks to take back to the steelworks so Lexi and Frankie can be refuelled once again. Frankie was glad that the delivery had finally arrived, but Lexi declared that she was going first and prompted Frankie and Hurricane to thank (and apologise to) Theo and Merlin.

## Characters

* City of Truro
* Stepney
* Theo
* Lexi
* Merlin
* Hurricane
* Frankie
* Gordon (*cameo*)
* James (*cameo*)
* Connor (*cameo*)
* Rebecca (*cameo*)
* BoCo (*cameo*)
* D261 (*cameo*)
* The Mainland Diesel Shunters (*cameo*)
* Beresford (*cameo*)

## Locations

* Island of Sodor
	+ Kirk Ronan Junction
* The Mainland
	+ Manchester Canal
	+ The Steelworks
	+ The Mainland Junction
	+ Crewe
	+ Bridlington Goods Yard

## Cast

* Crane Engine Studios as Theo and Hurricane
* Dueling Express as Stepney
* Gingercat65 as Lexi
* MrMerlinFan02 as Merlin
* Ryatron 12 as a Workman
* SudrianRailwayStudios as City of Truro
* Yilin Zhou as Frankie

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first of a few things:
	+ The first episode to feature Gingercat65, MrMerlinFan02 and SudrianRailwayStudio in the cast.
	+ The first episode in which Thomas does not make a physical appearance.
* This is the only episode to feature SudrianRailwayStudio as the City of Truro. Starting with Truly the Truro, the role was given to Tom Allmark as he gave him a proper Great Western accent.
* This is the second and last episode where Stepney is voiced by Dueling Express. Due to some complications during the second half of the first season, the role was briefly given to Dana-Kenzie until the second season where he is voiced by Joseph's Railway Studios.
* This episode is based off the Season 18 episode, No Steam Without Coal.

## Watch Episode

No Steel and No Work (Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures; Season 1; Episode 4)