The REAL Story of A Close Shave

Ойын-сауық

The engine that wanted a shave! Today we look back into the real inspiration of A Close Shave, which happened at Paragon Station, Hull in 1955...
Images and footage courtesy of:
TheUnluckyTug
Hull: The Good Old Days Group
Scarborough & Whitby Railway Group
TTTE Wikia
Thomas and Friends is owned by Mattel.
This video is for general audience.

Пікірлер: 54

  • @DillianTrainzStudios
    @DillianTrainzStudios Жыл бұрын

    This just shows how much of a legend the Rev. Wilbert Awdry was.

  • @Bradtheamericanengineandjinty

    @Bradtheamericanengineandjinty

    Жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️♥️♥️

  • @Bradtheamericanengineandjinty

    @Bradtheamericanengineandjinty

    Жыл бұрын

    I miss him

  • @Gamerguy826

    @Gamerguy826

    Жыл бұрын

    3:25 Two of the people interviewed were named Percy and Gordon. Partial character name inspiration, perhaps?

  • @billygames9161

    @billygames9161

    Жыл бұрын

    legends never die

  • @BlackNovember_94

    @BlackNovember_94

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed 👍

  • @theburpman8006
    @theburpman8006 Жыл бұрын

    The Reverend W Awdry was definitely a great author with great story sequences. Duck and his trucks were definitely an intense railway chase. The Duck and the Diesel Trilogy had other elements which was immense. But the chase was the most.

  • @josephmarrison4606
    @josephmarrison4606 Жыл бұрын

    Someone should have told that engine “Engines don’t go for haircuts!” 😄

  • @callum110597

    @callum110597

    Жыл бұрын

    LOL! Very good one!

  • @ARailFanPenguin

    @ARailFanPenguin

    3 ай бұрын

    this is the most npc like interaction i've ever seen@@callum110597

  • @gregkiteos1936
    @gregkiteos1936 Жыл бұрын

    It's good to see Percy and Gordon give their accounts of the event.

  • @FunAngelo2005

    @FunAngelo2005

    10 ай бұрын

    Yup

  • @callum110597
    @callum110597 Жыл бұрын

    Everyone is saying, "Why have a barber shop at the end of a line?" This explains why. And wow, what a story! 😲

  • @WarmBreezeStudios
    @WarmBreezeStudios11 ай бұрын

    I have to agree with you that the trucks chasing Duck is a nail-biting experience, but I find the part where Duck narrowly avoids crashing at the back of the passenger train a bit more stressful, but it was thankfully avoided

  • @Arkay315
    @Arkay315 Жыл бұрын

    I like how pretty much all of the good reverend's stories are based in truth

  • @bernarda1247
    @bernarda124711 ай бұрын

    I like how Percy and Gordon are in a news article

  • @jeremiahsisaias8677

    @jeremiahsisaias8677

    5 ай бұрын

    Human Gordon and Percy.

  • @ordinaldragoon
    @ordinaldragoon11 ай бұрын

    Oh wow! I went to university in Hull and lived therr for several years, often using Paragon Station and never once knew it was the inspiration of one of my favourite stories.

  • @sericsmith5770
    @sericsmith577011 ай бұрын

    This is what made the franchise a masterpiece: impeccable realism in works of fiction. Just hoping for the franchise to return to its glory days with the advent of the upcoming live action movie (which may or may not be released). BTW, I just so happen to be the 460th like, the same number as a PRR locomotive.

  • @TheBrickGuy7939
    @TheBrickGuy793911 ай бұрын

    On of my favourite episodes.

  • @terencewilliammckenna6121
    @terencewilliammckenna612111 ай бұрын

    I’ve got requests if there were any real events for these RWS stories: * Saved from scrap * Old faithful * The Percy the small engine stories ex Percy’s promise * Gordon goes foreign * Sir Topham Hatt’s engines * Pop goes the diesel * Dirty work * Trucks * Note: for Home at last and Rock n roll, did Duncan’s basic’s actually ever derail and/or scrape through a bridge? * Hullo twins * The missing coach * The Branch line engines stories (ex Percy’s Predicament) * Special funnel * Passengers and polish * Bluebells of England * The Very old engines stories * The diseasel * Ballast * Useful railway * The Enterprising engines stories (ex Super rescue) * Donald’s Duck * Toad stands by * You can’t win * Ghost train * Woolly bear * Mavis

  • @Gixerthebabymustang
    @Gixerthebabymustang5 ай бұрын

    Duck:* G. I. B. H. A. I. R. C. U. T*

  • @numptypootis8012
    @numptypootis8012 Жыл бұрын

    Very insightful, but at 3:42 it's pronounced "Trans pen-nine" just thought I'd clear that up, but I'm glad you used the correct pronunciation of "shire' 😉😅

  • @joelcartagena953
    @joelcartagena9539 ай бұрын

    I don't see how the buffers hadn't stopped the tank engine from crashing into that barber shop at the station. After all I do recall, "That's What Buffers Are For. To Stop Engines From Crashing".

  • @WarmBreezeStudios
    @WarmBreezeStudios7 ай бұрын

    4:10 - 4:18 I actually agreed with you one the fact that the station terminus setting would make A Close Shave more interesting if Wilbert wanted to have it all accurate to the real incident, maybe that could be made in a remake

  • @Imsogoodatfh5
    @Imsogoodatfh5 Жыл бұрын

    When I saw the episode duck crashing into the barber it reminded me of the shining reference Who agrees

  • @austinbakkerangelastro2307
    @austinbakkerangelastro230719 күн бұрын

    If this book was published in 1958, that’s when my birth dad was born.

  • @voltsiano116
    @voltsiano116Ай бұрын

    2:42 "Don't worry, it's only an engine."

  • @pikachuthebananasplit9061
    @pikachuthebananasplit90616 ай бұрын

    So apparently duck wasn't the original engine who crashed into the barbershop. Authur was

  • @greenturtlgaming2554

    @greenturtlgaming2554

    5 ай бұрын

    Nope, it was Belle.

  • @Jetthehawk1994

    @Jetthehawk1994

    3 ай бұрын

    @@greenturtlgaming2554 Nope. Belle's a BR Standard Class 4mt Tank, not an LMS 4p.

  • @Mattblox8080

    @Mattblox8080

    Ай бұрын

    A Close Shave for Arthur

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 Жыл бұрын

    Wilbert knew his sources

  • @thesudricmerman3318
    @thesudricmerman3318 Жыл бұрын

    love the fact this story base in my home city off hull also sadly the barshop was torndown back in 2017 and now is a horrible waiting room sadly now 😥

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman61019 ай бұрын

    I use to watch the second video of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Series 2. Screen Legends. On the vhs was the episode of A Close Shave.

  • @caledonianrailway1233
    @caledonianrailway1233 Жыл бұрын

    *SPEED AND POWA*

  • @terencewilliammckenna6121
    @terencewilliammckenna612111 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @thusgordonplot4721
    @thusgordonplot472111 ай бұрын

    Plowing through the platform was similar to a better view for Gordon

  • @jeremiahsisaias8677

    @jeremiahsisaias8677

    7 ай бұрын

    Same thing with the movie "Hugo" as both are based on a real life disaster in Paris around 1895.

  • @evanclarke5561
    @evanclarke5561 Жыл бұрын

    Could you do the real story of Pop Goes the Diesel or Percy, James and the Fruitful Day, please?

  • @gregkiteos1936

    @gregkiteos1936

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think there is a real-life version of 'Fruitful Day' because it wasn't written by Wilbert Awdry.

  • @evanclarke5561

    @evanclarke5561

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gregkiteos1936 Okay

  • @bernarda1247

    @bernarda1247

    11 ай бұрын

    @@gregkiteos1936who made it then?

  • @gregkiteos1936

    @gregkiteos1936

    11 ай бұрын

    @bernarda1247 Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, adapted from an Andrew Brenner magazine story.

  • @thusgordonplot4721
    @thusgordonplot472111 ай бұрын

    Omg

  • @thusgordonplot4721
    @thusgordonplot472111 ай бұрын

    It would’ve been more exciting if there were 20 trucks on TV, too

  • @jamesthebluecat1263
    @jamesthebluecat1263 Жыл бұрын

    1:31 & 3/4

  • @nevillehorseproductions4434
    @nevillehorseproductions44345 ай бұрын

    Oh no what just happened

  • @Tencentsthetug
    @Tencentsthetug6 ай бұрын

    Why is duck on crack on the the picture for the vedeo

  • @Tencentsthetug
    @Tencentsthetug2 ай бұрын

    Ther caled farrbern tank

  • @MelindaFN
    @MelindaFN8 ай бұрын

    good news no deaths

  • @MelindaFN

    @MelindaFN

    8 ай бұрын

    fake message above this message

  • @thusgordonplot4721
    @thusgordonplot472111 ай бұрын

    I’ve got requests for videos about some RWS stories’ real events along with for Thomas season 5’s episodes real events: Edward’s day out, Edward Gordon and Henry, Thomas and the trucks, James and the express, troublesome trucks, Thomas Terrance and the snow, Thomas and Bertie, trouble in the shed, coal, Gordon’s whistle, and the Toby the tram engine stories as well as Thomas’s Christmas party.

Келесі