Air date: September 5th, 2004
Percy is taking passengers for the first time in ages and Gordon tries to teach him how to treat coaches. Things are shaky when Percy accidentally bumps the coaches, lets off steam at the wrong time, and Gordon starts showing off. In the end, Gordon tries to brake so smoothly he slips on the icy rails and runs into a snowdrift, just as Percy puffs in and gently halts. Gordon compliments Percy afterwards, but attributes it to his good teaching.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Attention Whore: Gordon.
- Big Brother Mentor: Gordon attempts this to Percy. Though a lot more pompous than standard examples, it does pay off in some way.
- Compressed Vice: Percy has become so used to goods trains he is inexperienced pulling coaches.
- Control Freak: Gordon.
- Series Continuity Error: This episode focuses on Percy learning how to pull passenger trains, although he already knows how to do that in the earlier seasons. The plot vaguely excuses this in that he has pulled only goods for a long while, though he has been shown pulling passenger trains in frequent episodes just prior.
