Thomas and Friends, Signals Crossed

Toby is always nervous when he has to go through Knapford Junction with the big gantry signal over the track. One day Toby waits nervously for his signal to change, but it stays on red. He waits and waits, holding up other engines, but the signal doesn't change. The Fat Controller is very cross until everybody finally realises the signal is broken.

One day while repairing an embankment, Marion strikes something hard and insists it must be the mast of a Viking Ship. It looks like a water pipe to Thomas but Marion is adamant that it isn't. But the next day Thomas notices flooding near the bank and then there is a landslip and Marion has to admit her mistake and help prevent an accident.

Duncan is the grumpiest engine on the narrow gauge railway. He is always complaining about one thing or another. But when Duncan gets a very grumpy passenger, Duncan finds his grumpiness very annoying. So he decides to do everything he can to make the grumpy passenger stop complaining. But Duncan soon learns that you can't make everyone happy.

There is a coal shortage at the Clay Pits. Timothy warns Bill and Ben to go easy and spare their coal. But Bill and Ben don't listen, teasing each other, and Timothy and messing about, until they do run out of coal! Luckily Timothy runs on oil, so he manages to keep going, delivering clay to the docks and bringing back coal for the tank engine twins.

Thomas is on his branch line when a passenger pulls the emergency cable and he has to stop quickly. But it turns out not to be an emergency at all, but a bird watcher who's spotted a rare bird. To make matters worse, Clarabel has a wheel flat after being dragged along with her brakes on. So the next time Thomas sees the bird watcher he refuses to stop to collect him, but he soon learns that that's not the right thing to do either.

When Spencer brings a Very Important Passenger from the mainland, he is so determined to be on time that he doesn't notice he's been sent down the wrong track. By the time he arrives at Knapford, he is very late indeed and the V.I.P. refuses to travel back with him. The other engines all compete to be chosen to take the V.I.P. back to the mainland, but rushing to do things quickly and showing off, only leads to confusion and delay. And Spencer ends up being given a second chance.

Gator is waiting to be loaded onto a ship, but the ship is delayed. So Gator is waiting around doing nothing. So when Oliver breaks down one night, Gator is very happy to help. He sets off to collect Oliver's trucks and promises to bring them back before morning. But Gator's lamp keeps going out and he decides not to stop or he will be late. Toad, the brake van, doesn't think it is safe and they argue, but in the end it is Toad's bright idea that helps Gator deliver the trucks in time.