Feeling Homesick

Feeling Homesick is a magazine story.

Plot
One morning, Donald and Douglas' crews are surprised to find the twins are unable to come out of their shed. They inform The Fat Controller who comes to investigate the matter. The twins reveal to him that they are feeling homesick. It has been quite a while since the twins were last in Scotland. They wonder if they could take a holiday but The Fat Controller sadly says there is too much work to do on the railway currently.

The Fat Controller allows the twins to stay in the shed for the morning but must go out and shunt in the afternoon. The story soon spreads and the engines wonder what they could do to cheer Donald and Douglas up. When Thomas stops at Wellsworth later in the day, he hears a band practicing in the park nearby and gets an idea. When Thomas returns to the yard, Donald and Douglas have started their shunting. They are moving very slowly and wasting time. The Fat Controller is annoyed but Thomas tells him his idea.

The Fat Controller contacts a friend of his and it is arranged for Thomas to collect him early tomorrow morning from a ferry. When Donald and Douglas wake up, the yard is filled with the sound of bagpipes. Thomas' special passenger is a real Scottish piper and the sound of his bagpipes make the twins cheerfully whistle along.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Donald and Douglas
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * James
 * Duck