Tuesday 21 January 2014

Ivor the Engine

Todays next cartoon is a charming little tale about a little engine called Ivor!



In a sleepy part of Wales (to be precise, the top left corner of Wales), there is a railway called 'The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited'. In a shed, in a siding, lives the locomotive of 'The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited', which was a very long name for a very small engine. So his friends just called him Ivor.
But Ivor is no normal engine, he was special, as this small green railway engine was alive! He was accompanied on his travels by Jones the Steam, who was Ivor's driver, and who loved him dearly. Everyone who Ivor met treated him as if he was a person, which Ivor liked, as he sometimes wished he was a real person, so he could play with his friends.
Ivor communicates with others using his 3 tone whistle, but this was not always the case, as he used to have a small quiet whistle that just peeped. It wasn't very remarkable, but Ivor didn't mind, that was until he heard the Grumbly and District Choral Society singing whilst he was in a siding. He thought they sounded wonderful and wanted to join the choir, but his single tone whistle just wasn’t good enough.
So Jones and Dai made it their mission to find him a new whistle. It took a while to find one, but they eventually came across an old merry-go-round organ, which had pipes that would take the heat from the steam Ivor produced. Ivor was then fitted with 3 of the organ pipes and he sounded wonderful. He sounded so good, that he was welcomed as the newest member of the Grumbly and District Choral Society, their only steam engine member. They even said that he didn't have to pay to be a member, like the others members, which was lucky as steam trains rarely carry money of their own.

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