Gordon and Rebecca, Coming Through!

"Well that might work for you, Gordon, but I have my own way of doing things."

- Rebecca

Gordon and Rebecca, Coming Through! is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.

Plot
Gordon pulls the express along the line, and avoids other engines ahead of him by passing them on the neighbouring lines. He nearly collides with Emily while doing so, which leads to her nearly colliding with Diesel. He is not the only engine who pulls the express, the other being Rebecca, but she doesn't have as much experience as he does. She also takes goods trains and is nice to the other engines.

One morning while they wait for their trains, Gordon tells her how to make the shunters hurry with the trains, by whistling loudly at them and shouting their names, like Thomas and Percy, who then just arrive. Rebecca keeps his advice in mind as she departs.

The two later travel together up Gordon's Hill, and Gordon reminds her to go fast over the hill, or risk getting stuck and waiting for another engine to give a push. Gordon then thunders up the hill and down the other side, with Rebecca following closley behind.

Nia arrives with a goods train at Maron, where Rebecca is waiting for James to depart, who sings for himself. Just then, Gordon passes by with the express. James expresses his annoyance over how Gordon always has to announce his arrival with the express.

At Knapford, Gordon allows Rebecca to take the express for a change, and asks her again about what to do if a shunter is late with the train. Rebecca suggests asking nicley, but Gordon corrects her in whistling loudly, which he does in order for Thomas to hurry with the coaches. Thomas shunts them behind Gordon, but he remarks that he has allowed Rebecca to take them instead. Rebecca assures Gordon that she has her ways of doing things and departs after the coaches have been shunted and the passengers boarded.

Rebecca decides to instead slow down and wait behind other engines. When stuck behind Toby and Henrietta, the latter encourages her to go past since their slower then her. Rebecca accepts this and goes past them. She is later stuck behind Diesel pulling a goods train, with the trucks encouraging her to go past, but she doesn't relent. Gordon whistles in the distance, and Diesel changes tracks as Gordon comes his way. Thinking quickly, Rebecca alerts the signalman to change the points, allowing her to proceed on the main line while Gordon is diverted onto a siding. His high speed prevents him from stopping in time, crashing through the buffers. Rebecca rushes back to check on him, and he assures that he is fine. He also admits that he shouldn't have taught her how to do her job, since she has her own ways to do it. He then reminds her that the express shuldn't be late, which Rebecca agrees with, and departs, saying "express coming through".

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Diesel
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Henrietta
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Philip
 * Ryan
 * The Teacher
 * One of Dowager Hatt's Friends
 * Albert's Wife
 * Little Thomas

Locations

 * Knapford
 * Knapford Yards
 * Gordon's Hill
 * Maron

UK

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon
 * Rob Rackstraw as James and a Troublesome Truck
 * Teresa Gallagher as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Kerry Shale as Diesel and a Troublesome Truck
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta

US

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon, Diesel and a Troublesome Truck
 * Rob Rackstraw as James and a Troublesome Truck
 * Jules de Jongh as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta

Trivia

 * Going by production order, this is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.
 * This is the only episode in which Henrietta speaks but Toby does not.
 * This is the final episode of a few things:
 * The final appearances of Ryan, Philip and Henrietta.
 * The final appearances of Toby, Emily, Nia and the Troublesome Trucks in the original series.
 * The final episode to have Gordon and Rebecca in lead roles.
 * The final episode where Emily has silver buffers. From Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! onwards, she has black buffers.
 * The final episode to feature Teresa Gallagher, Jules de Jongh, Maggie Ollerenshaw, and Yvonne Grundy as part of the voice cast.
 * The final episode to feature The Steam Team song at the end.
 * The title uses Gordon's catchphrase "Express Coming Through," another episode Express Coming Through of the sixteenth series used this too.
 * Gordon's crash at the end is similar to his crash in the fourteenth series episode, Being Percy.
 * This episode was never aired in Germany and South Korea.
 * In the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Baltic Russian dubs, the UK dub can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.

Goofs

 * Emily is missing her number.

UK/IRL/AUS

 * Animal Adventures