This page is for examples exclusive to ''Shining Time Station''. For examples related to ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', go to [[YMMV/ThomasAndFriends this page]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Pretty much anything the Jukebox Band performs, especially "City of New Orleans", which notably was the only Jukebox song to play during the end credits of an episode (Season 2's "Jingle, Jingle, Jingle")
** The opening theme is pure SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel. Notably, it was one of Joe Raposo's last songs before his death in 1989.
** Many of the songs from the Anything Tunnel, The Magic Bubble and the Picture Machine count as this too.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Schemer was the most popular character on the show for his funny DracoInLeatherPants moments, even having a series of home video segments dedicated to his character.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show was huge in the Virgin Islands, to the point where it ran up until 2001, three years longer than it did in the mainland US.
* GrowingTheBeard:
** Around the second season when the main cast was revamped and the recurring cast expanded.
** The show's Nielsen ratings surged from 1.2 million viewers during the first season to nearly 7.5 million viewers each week during the second and third seasons, after Creator/GeorgeCarlin replaced Music/RingoStarr as Mr. Conductor.
* HarsherInHindsight: In "Stacy Says No", Stacy goes overboard with enforcing new rules, and when Dan explains the problem to Mr. Conductor, he says that there's no rules against telling ''Thomas''[='=] stories, not yet, anyway. Since 2021, Creator/{{Mattel}} [[ScrewedByTheLawyers has been blocking uploads of classic]] ''[[ScrewedByTheLawyers Thomas]]'' [[ScrewedByTheLawyers episodes]] on Website/YouTube, and in 2023, this has extended to ''Shining Time Station'' episodes due to ''Thomas'' episodes being part of them. Not helping matters is that ''Shining Time Station'' [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes does not have an official release on DVD or streaming services]].
* HilariousInHindsight: "Mr. Conductor Gets Left Out" has the kids learn firsthand not to watch too much television, especially not programming that exists solely to sell toys. ''Thomas and Friends'' itself would later go on to be MerchandiseDriven as a result of being owned by [[Creator/{{Mattel}} a toy company]].
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** The ending to the ChristmasEpisode "'Tis a Gift." Full stop.
** J.B. King got quite a few since his first appearance, in which he started out a cold businessman but warmed up when he realized that Mr. Conductor, a figure from his childhood, lived at Shining Time.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-z3bXGY6L4 The theme song]], which was [[Series/SesameStreet Joe Raposo's]] last work before he passed away in February of 1989 (only a week after the show premiered). Also, the various performances by the Jukebox Band.
** Some of the Picture Machine/Anything Tunnel/Magic Bubbles songs can also have this effect, with particular mention to Thanksgiving and Old But Wise.
** The ending to the ThanksgivingEpisode, "Billy's Party"; Billy misses the party he plans to spend with the Boomers and the Hobos as a result of having to rescue Schemer, who gets stranded on a train, and drive Ginny to buy her a new Thanksgiving dinner after her dog ruins her old one. However, everyone at the station spends their Thanksgiving at the station with him so he doesn't feel all alone.
* JustHereForGodzilla: In a case of TropesAreTools, Britt Alcroft was banking on American children tuning into this spinoff mainly for the Thomas segments. The rest is history.
* MemeticMutation: Three words: Mr. Conductor's Double.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Two for Stacy in the last episode:
** The two jewel thieves enter the station and accost Schemer, claiming to be undercover cops. Stacy enters the scene, and when the crooks won't show any ID, she wards them off with a baseball bat.
** In one of the last scenes, [[spoiler: Stacy and Mr. King take a switcher out of the yard to head off the thieves, who stole Ginny's truck and were chasing Schemer down the road]].
** Schemer himself gets one in the episode where he's trying to join a club run by the bigoted Hobart Hume III. Stacy, Billy and the kids can tell Mr. Hume is a bigot who looks down on people, but Schemer is too determined to join to notice. Towards the end, though, he tries to set it up so his friends can join as well, but Mr. Hume begins to list all the superficial "flaws" they have and Schemer slowly realizes what kind of club he's really joining. And then, when he is told he'll have to cut off his curl to be "one of them", he finally gets angry with Mr. Hume, tricks him into eating some very sticky toffee, and promptly tells him if his club "isn't good enough for my friends, then it isn't good enough for me!" then kicks him out.
* MoralEventHorizon: It's very difficult to get on Billy Twofeathers's bad side, which is why doing so is considered one in the context of this show; Hobart Hume III crossed it by [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain calling him an "Indian"]].
* NightmareFuel: In "Mr. Conductor Gets Left Out," the kids have terrifying zombie eyes from watching too much TV, which horrifies Stacy Jones. Once she unplugs the TV set, they return to normal.
-->'''Stacy Jones:''' (gasps when she sees the kids with zombie eyes) HOLY COUCH POTATOES! That's it, no more TV for ''you!'' (unplugs the TV set)
* QuestionableCasting: [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] (the first Mr. Conductor) was an odd choice for the role, although the reasoning was sound -- he had already provided the narration for the original ''Thomas'' episodes (that were made up to that point). But then they brought in '''''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''''' (yes, the same guy known for the SevenDirtyWords bit) to replace him... [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but amazingly, it still worked]]!
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Kara was played by Erica Luttrell, who later became the voice of Keesha on ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' and Sapphire on ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''.
** In the ''Schemer Presents'' episode "How To Apologize", the character [[TheDanza Jayne]] is played by Creator/JayneEastwood, who would later star as Aunt Agatha in the show's SpiritualSuccessor ''Series/TheNoddyShop''.
** Jukebox Band leader Tito Swing was puppeteered and voiced by Jonathan Freeman, who is better known to most audiences as the voice of Jafar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
* TearJerker:
** A lot of "Is This the End?".
** In universe, Schemer finds the song Danny Boy to have this effect.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The ChromaKey effects for Mr. Conductor. Very convincing.

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