Thomas and the Inventor's Workshop

"It's sails are all broken, its roof's falling in and there's a tree growing out of the wall." "I know! It's perfect!" "Perfect? It's old and useless." "Just you wait and see!"

- Thomas and Ruth regarding the windmill

Thomas and the Inventor's Workshop is the fourteenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.

Plot
Thomas shows Ruth around Sodor to help her find a place to live. Ruth gets the idea to search along where Thomas works -- his branch line. Eventually, they come across an old windmill. Ruth renovates the windmill into her new, energy-efficient workshop.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Percy
 * Daisy
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Skiff
 * Sir Robert Norramby
 * Ruth
 * Gordon
 * Duck
 * Ryan
 * Rex
 * The Bird Watcher
 * The Ginger-haired Boy
 * The Blond-haired Boy
 * One of Dowager Hatt's Friends
 * The Lady with the Big Hat
 * Albert
 * Albert's Wife
 * Little Thomas
 * The Puppet Show Entertainers

Locations

 * Ulfstead Castle
 * Arlesburgh Harbour
 * Arlesburgh Maritime Museum
 * Harwick
 * Tidmouth Town Square
 * Ruth's Workshop
 * Brendam
 * Suddery
 * Norramby

UK

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon
 * Nigel Pilkington as Percy
 * Tracy-Ann Oberman as Daisy
 * Jamie Campbell Bower as Skiff
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Mike Grady as Sir Robert Norramby
 * Dominique Moore as Ruth

US

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * Tracy-Ann Oberman as Daisy
 * Jamie Campbell Bower as Skiff
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Mike Grady as Sir Robert Norramby
 * Dominique Moore as Ruth

Trivia

 * Going by production order, this is the twelfth episode of the twenty-fourth series.
 * This episode, along with James the Super Engine, were the first two episodes from the twenty-fourth series to be leaked.
 * Suddery and Norramby are both mentioned in this episode.
 * This episode marks the last of a few things:
 * The last appearances of Duck, Daisy, Rex, Sir Robert Norramby, the Bird Watcher and Albert.
 * The last appearances of Annie, Clarabel, and Skiff in the original series.
 * The last episode written by Camille Ucan and Rose Johnson.
 * Harwick's last appearance.
 * Thomas racing towards the electrical wire is a homage to the 1985 movie, Back To The Future.
 * In Poland, this episode premiered before A New Arrival, so the audience would not know who Ruth is.
 * 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.
 * Albert, his wife, little Thomas, and Fuzzy can be seen walking past Ruth at the Town Square.

Goofs

 * The captions on the Paramount+ release of the episode mistakenly refer to Gordon as Norman.

UK/IRL/AUS

 * The Super Engine