Tear Jerker / Thomas Abridged

• Thomas Abridged has an absolute truckload, especially when the darker points of the plot start to hit home:
  • The Narrator's description of Henry's crash from Chapter 19:
    [James] reversed back onto another track, ready to give [Henry] a piece of his mind.
    "HENRY! YOU BLITHERING IDIOT! YOU- You...you-" He stared.
    Because for the first time, Henry the Green Engine wasn't responding to a jibe made by him.
    In fact, he wasn't responding at all.
    "Oh no." James whispered.
  • "Toby and the Stout Gentleman." It deals in the introduction of the tram-engine Toby, and his faithful companion Henrietta as they work on a slowly dying remote mountain rail line. Both of them are well aware that the old line is closing down as more and more goods and people are being moved by the roads than rail, but the entire time Toby keeps that fragile smile on his face, up until the very end. When the line finally closes, he bids farewell to Henrietta, and backs into his shed for the last time.
    Engines can sleep forever, if they so wish.
  • Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 4 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.
  • Even more so for BoCo's departure in "Double Teething Troubles", especially when he and Edward talk for the last time. And then it turns to downright tragic when he's murdered by 'Arry and Bert on his way to the Mainland. Even the narrator seems saddened.
  • The death of Bertram/Smudger in Part 3 of Magic Railroad.
  • Duke's Heroic Sacrifice in Part 8 of Magic Railorad.
  • The ending of "Edward's Brass Band".
  • The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The Ffarquhar and Wellsworth branch lines getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.

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