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* ArtifactTitle: Despite the name of the book, there are only two stories focused on Oliver. It's worth noting that the Rev. W. Awdry was originally going to name the book ''Little Western Engines'', but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title. In the foreward, Awdry jokes that if Oliver gets too arrogant for it, [[BitingTheHandHumor he'll set the publishers on him.]]
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* ArtifactTitle: Despite the name of the book, there are only two stories focused on Oliver. It's worth noting that the Rev. W. Awdry was originally going to name the book ''Little Western Engines'', but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title. In the foreward, forward, Awdry jokes that if Oliver gets too arrogant for it, [[BitingTheHandHumor he'll set the publishers on him.]]
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* OhCrap: The trucks behind S.C.Ruffey are visibly horrified when Oliver accidentally dismantles him.
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* LegacyOfService: Even though he is now Douglas' brakevan, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
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* LegacyOfService: Even though he is he’s now Douglas' brakevan, brake van, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
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* DiesWideOpen: Scruffey dies with his eyes open after he is broken to pieces. His remains are then sent for scrap.
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* DiesWideOpen: Scruffey dies with his eyes open after he is he’s broken to pieces. His remains are then sent for scrap.
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* BlatantLies: Bulgy's "Railway Bus" sign, suggesting he is a replacement service.
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* BlatantLies: Bulgy's "Railway Bus" sign, suggesting he is he’s a replacement service.
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* AccidentalMurder: In "Toad Stands By," Scruffey is killed when Oliver pulls him apart. Notably, he is killed because of his poor condition.
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* LowClearance: The arrogant double-decker bus Bulgy gets wedged under a low railway bridge, while trying to take a short cut.
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* BadassBoast: The trucks mix this with TheHeroSucksSong, jeering what becomes of engines like Oliver that try to order them about ("We just pushed him down the well!").
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* ArtifactTitle: Despite the name of the book, there are only two stories focused on Oliver. It's worth noting that the Rev. W. Awdry was originally going to name the book ''Little Western Engines'', but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title. In the foreward, Awdry jokes that if Oliver gets too arrogant for it, [[BitingTheHandHumor he'll set the publishers on him.]]
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* BitingTheHandHumor: In the foreword, Wilbert Awdry declares that if Oliver gets uppish for learning that he now technically has a book to himself, that setting the publishers on him will be a fitting punishment.
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* ThinSkinnedBully: The trucks pick on Oliver mercilessly when they think he's just a cocky newcomer. After he accidentally destroys Scruffey however, they're ''terrified'' of him.
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* ThinSkinnedBully: The trucks pick on Oliver mercilessly when they think he's just a cocky newcomer. After he accidentally destroys Scruffey S.C.Ruffey however, they're ''terrified'' of him.
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*AccidentalMurder: In "Toad Stands By," Scruffey is killed when Oliver pulls him apart. Notably, he is killed because of his poor condition.
*DiesWideOpen: Scruffey dies with his eyes open after he is broken to pieces. His remains are then sent for scrap.
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* KarmicDeath: Scruffey is broken into pieces and is sent for scrap.
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*PunBasedTitle / ShoutOut: The first story is named "Donald's Duck". [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Do we have to tell you what the title is based on?]]
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* LegacyOfService: Even though he is now Douglas' brakevan, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
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* LegacyOfService: Even though he is now Douglas' brakevan, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
* SeriesContinuityError: In "Donald's Duck", Duck is given his own branch line, which means the events of the story took place before Oliver arrives to Sodor in the previous book.
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* SeriesContinuityError: In "Donald's Duck", Duck is given his own branch line, which means the events of the story took place before Oliver arrives to Sodor in the previous book.
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* BadassBoast: The trucks mix this with TheHerosSucksSong, jeering what becomes of engines like Oliver that try to order them about ("We just pushed him down the well!").
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* BadassBoast: The trucks mix this with TheHerosSucksSong, TheHeroSucksSong, jeering what becomes of engines like Oliver that try to order them about ("We just pushed him down the well!").
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The ballast trucks immediately take a dislike to Oliver, and push him into a turntable after he speaks to them in a slightly rude tone, which they then heckle him relentlessly over.
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* ThinSkinnedBully: The trucks pick on Oliver mercilessly when they think he's just a cocky newcomer. After he accidentally destroys Scruffey however, they're ''terrified'' of him.
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* BigShutUp: Duck, Donald and Douglas say this to the trucks in "Toad Stands By" when they teased Oliver.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The events of this book take place in 1968.
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* LoyaltyOfService: Even though he is now Douglas' brakevan, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Truck]]: Scruffey's demise was due more to his poor condition than Oliver's strength, but The Fat Controller discourages sharing this information so the other trucks find Oliver more intimidating.
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* BlatantLies: Bulgy's "Railway Bus" sign, suggesting he is a replacement service.
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* LoyaltyOfService: Even though he is now Douglas' brakevan, Toad insists on helping Oliver with the trucks owing to their Great Western ties.
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* ArtifactTitle: Despite the name of the book, there are only two stories focused on Oliver. It's worth noting that the Rev. W. Awdry was originally going to name the book ''Little Western Engines'', but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Bulgy gets turned into a henhouse.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory:
** Oliver's turntable accident in "Resource and Sagacity" was based on a real-life event where a Lancashire and Yorkshire 2-4-2T tank engine from the London Midland and Scottish Railway also fell backwards into a turntable well.
** "Bulgy" is based on a real event in Lewes High Street in 1962 from The Evening Standard.
** Oliver's turntable accident in "Resource and Sagacity" was based on a real-life event where a Lancashire and Yorkshire 2-4-2T tank engine from the London Midland and Scottish Railway also fell backwards into a turntable well.
** "Bulgy" is based on a real event in Lewes High Street in 1962 from The Evening Standard.
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* GenreSavvy: Donald knows from the moment Oliver's ego bloats that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he'll have to learn the hard way]].
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* LighterAndSofter: When compared to the last book delving into steam ending on BR, Oliver being rescued from death and only one of Gordon's siblings surviving, this book starts with Donald getting a pet in the form of a prank by Duck.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Oliver in "Toad Stands By".
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* {{Jerkass}}: The ballast trucks, who are said to be worst behaved trucks on the railway, Scruffey, and Bulgy as well as his friend.
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''Oliver the Western Engine'' is the twenty-forth book of ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' published in 1969. This contains four stories:
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''Oliver the Western Engine'' is the twenty-forth twenty-fourth book of ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' published in 1969. This contains four stories:
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* TheHeroSucksSong: Scruffey and the trucks sing "Pop Goes Ol Ollie" to Oliver for the turntable accident.
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* TheHeroSucksSong: Scruffey and the trucks sing "Pop Goes Ol Ol' Ollie" to Oliver for the turntable accident.
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* MotorMouth: Duck in "Donald's Duck". Donald pointed this out by telling him he quacks as if he laid an egg.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) play good natured pranks on each other.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) play good natured pranks on each other.
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* MotorMouth: Duck in "Donald's Duck". Donald pointed points this out by telling him he quacks as if he laid an egg.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) playgood natured good-natured pranks on each other.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) play
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* WhatTheHellHero: Oliver gets an earful from Donald, Douglas, and the Fat Controller after the turntable accident.
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''Oliver the Western Engine'' is the twenty-forth book of ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' published in 1969. This contains four stories:
* '''Donald's Duck''': The Fat Controller re-opens the Arlesburgh branch and asks Duck to run it for him. Duck is proud, and one night talks so much about his responsibility that Donald, at the end of his tether, makes quacking noises and says Duck's laid an egg. Duck, furious, makes a plan to get revenge, and his crew put a duckling in Donald's watertank. She pops out the next day at the water tower, and Donald realizes it was Duck's pay-back. The duck is tame, and rides with Donald for a fair while, until she gets off at Haultraugh. Donald and his crew, plotting a last ploy, place a nestbox with an egg in it behind Duck's bunker. Duck acknowledges defeat, and nowadays the duck lives happily at Haultraugh.
* '''Resource and Sagacity''': After Oliver was rescued, he and Isabel were repainted in Great Western colors, joined by another coach called Dulcie, who was also rescued, and started working on the Arlesburgh branch. The big engines are amazed at Oliver's adventures, and say approving things to him, making him proud and over-confident, but Oliver meets his match after a load of disgruntled ballast trucks push him into the turntable well. After Duck, Donald, Douglas, and the Fat Controller speak to him sternly, he is left feeling very silly.
* '''Toad Stands By''': When Oliver returns, the trucks, led by a wagon named S. C. Ruffey, make rude songs about him. The others try to get them to shut up, but no avail. Toad makes a plan and asks Douglas if he can share it with Oliver. Duck is apprehensive at first, but Oliver feels he must make things right, and so it is arranged. Oliver lines the worst trucks up, with guidance from Toad, and starts. Scruffey, who is at the front, tells the others to hold back, and they do, but Oliver is so determined he simply pulls Scruffey to pieces. Although the Fat Controller attributes it to Scruffey's poor design, he whispers to Oliver to keep it quiet. It's for a good reason, too, because the trucks are so afraid Oliver will pull them apart that they never trouble him again.
* '''Bulgy''': It's Bank Holiday, and Duck meets a left-wing doubledecker bus who is determined to scrap all railways. Oliver tells Duck that he should not be taken seriously and nicknames him Bulgy, but is worried when Bulgy's friend arrives, leaving Bulgy to take their passengers with the promise of a faster way home and the lie that he accepts railway tickets. Duck is crossly puffing home when he is stopped by a bridge where Bulgy has wedged underneath. Duck carefully makes it across, and takes the passengers home. In the end, Bulgy stayed under the bridge until it was mended, but continued to lie, and eventually was turned into a henhouse.
!!The book contains examples of:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Oliver takes the big engines' remarks too fondly in "Resource and Sagacity".
* BreakTheHaughty: The trucks cause problems for a prideful Oliver.
* BullyHunter: Toad the Brakevan helped Oliver put the trucks in their place after they wouldn't stop teasing him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Oliver in "Toad Stands By".
* GenreSavvy: Donald knows from the moment Oliver's ego bloats that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he'll have to learn the hard way]].
* FantasticRacism: Bulgy towards the railways.
* TheHeroSucksSong: Scruffey and the trucks sing "Pop Goes Ol Ollie" to Oliver for the turntable accident.
* ItsAllMyFault: Oliver admits that the teasing from the trucks was all his fault.
* {{Jerkass}}: The ballast trucks, who are said to be worst behaved trucks on the railway, Scruffey, and Bulgy as well as his friend.
* KarmicDeath: Scruffey is broken into pieces and is sent for scrap.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Bulgy gets turned into a henhouse.
* ManipulativeBastard: Bulgy.
* MotorMouth: Duck in "Donald's Duck". Donald pointed this out by telling him he quacks as if he laid an egg.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) play good natured pranks on each other.
* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: Bulgy's shortcut winds up getting him stuck under a low bridge.
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* '''Donald's Duck''': The Fat Controller re-opens the Arlesburgh branch and asks Duck to run it for him. Duck is proud, and one night talks so much about his responsibility that Donald, at the end of his tether, makes quacking noises and says Duck's laid an egg. Duck, furious, makes a plan to get revenge, and his crew put a duckling in Donald's watertank. She pops out the next day at the water tower, and Donald realizes it was Duck's pay-back. The duck is tame, and rides with Donald for a fair while, until she gets off at Haultraugh. Donald and his crew, plotting a last ploy, place a nestbox with an egg in it behind Duck's bunker. Duck acknowledges defeat, and nowadays the duck lives happily at Haultraugh.
* '''Resource and Sagacity''': After Oliver was rescued, he and Isabel were repainted in Great Western colors, joined by another coach called Dulcie, who was also rescued, and started working on the Arlesburgh branch. The big engines are amazed at Oliver's adventures, and say approving things to him, making him proud and over-confident, but Oliver meets his match after a load of disgruntled ballast trucks push him into the turntable well. After Duck, Donald, Douglas, and the Fat Controller speak to him sternly, he is left feeling very silly.
* '''Toad Stands By''': When Oliver returns, the trucks, led by a wagon named S. C. Ruffey, make rude songs about him. The others try to get them to shut up, but no avail. Toad makes a plan and asks Douglas if he can share it with Oliver. Duck is apprehensive at first, but Oliver feels he must make things right, and so it is arranged. Oliver lines the worst trucks up, with guidance from Toad, and starts. Scruffey, who is at the front, tells the others to hold back, and they do, but Oliver is so determined he simply pulls Scruffey to pieces. Although the Fat Controller attributes it to Scruffey's poor design, he whispers to Oliver to keep it quiet. It's for a good reason, too, because the trucks are so afraid Oliver will pull them apart that they never trouble him again.
* '''Bulgy''': It's Bank Holiday, and Duck meets a left-wing doubledecker bus who is determined to scrap all railways. Oliver tells Duck that he should not be taken seriously and nicknames him Bulgy, but is worried when Bulgy's friend arrives, leaving Bulgy to take their passengers with the promise of a faster way home and the lie that he accepts railway tickets. Duck is crossly puffing home when he is stopped by a bridge where Bulgy has wedged underneath. Duck carefully makes it across, and takes the passengers home. In the end, Bulgy stayed under the bridge until it was mended, but continued to lie, and eventually was turned into a henhouse.
!!The book contains examples of:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Oliver takes the big engines' remarks too fondly in "Resource and Sagacity".
* BreakTheHaughty: The trucks cause problems for a prideful Oliver.
* BullyHunter: Toad the Brakevan helped Oliver put the trucks in their place after they wouldn't stop teasing him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Oliver in "Toad Stands By".
* GenreSavvy: Donald knows from the moment Oliver's ego bloats that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he'll have to learn the hard way]].
* FantasticRacism: Bulgy towards the railways.
* TheHeroSucksSong: Scruffey and the trucks sing "Pop Goes Ol Ollie" to Oliver for the turntable accident.
* ItsAllMyFault: Oliver admits that the teasing from the trucks was all his fault.
* {{Jerkass}}: The ballast trucks, who are said to be worst behaved trucks on the railway, Scruffey, and Bulgy as well as his friend.
* KarmicDeath: Scruffey is broken into pieces and is sent for scrap.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Bulgy gets turned into a henhouse.
* ManipulativeBastard: Bulgy.
* MotorMouth: Duck in "Donald's Duck". Donald pointed this out by telling him he quacks as if he laid an egg.
* ThePrankster: Both Duck and Donald (and their crewmen) play good natured pranks on each other.
* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: Bulgy's shortcut winds up getting him stuck under a low bridge.
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