Cleo the Road Engine

"I would have won if I didn't have to go the long way round and keep stopping."

- Cleo

Cleo the Road Engine is the nineteenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.

Plot
When Ruth's new car, Cleo, takes to the rails to race Thomas, she soon discovers why she is designed to stick to the roads.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * Bulgy
 * Cleo
 * Farmer McColl
 * Ruth
 * The Bird Watcher
 * One Boy
 * Theo

Locations

 * Ruth's Workshop
 * Road and Rail Runby and Road Bridge
 * Knapford
 * Crowe's Farm
 * McColl Farm
 * Three-Track Level Crossing
 * Dryaw
 * Crosby
 * Ffarquhar
 * Great Waterton
 * Ffarquhar Quarry
 * Wellsworth

UK

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon
 * Colin McFarlane as Bulgy
 * Harriet Kershaw as Cleo
 * Matt Wilkinson as Farmer McColl
 * Dominique Moore as Ruth

US

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon
 * Colin McFarlane as Bulgy
 * Harriet Kershaw as Cleo
 * William Hope as Farmer McColl
 * Dominique Moore as Ruth

Trivia

 * Going by production order, this is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.
 * This is the first and last episode of a few things:
 * The last episode written by Paul Larson and Laura Beaumont.
 * This is the last episode where a character besides Thomas has a leading role.
 * Although it chronologically takes place before Cleo's First Snow, this episode marks the final appearances of Cleo and Ruth, as well as those of Bulgy and the Post Van.
 * The final appearance of Farmer McColl in the original series.
 * The last episode to feature William Hope, Colin McFarlane, Harriet Kershaw, and Dominique Moore as part of the voice cast.
 * 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.
 * In the Polish dub, Bulgy is voiced by a female actress instead of a male actor.

Goofs

 * On Netflix, when Cleo is passing Bulgy, the captions credit the latter's interrupted "free the roads" quip as Bertie's.
 * Thomas' brake van changes from black to orange and back to black.

UK/IRL/AUS

 * Animal Adventures