The Titfield Thunderbolt Page #2
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- 1953
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- Come on, Mr Weech!
What's the purpose
- When does an engine bark?
- What's a stuffing gland?
- How long's your jay rod?
- How do you free a clogged blower?
- How do you treat a big end brass?
- Answer my questions, man!
Well, you answer mine,
and take your paws off me!
Gentlemen, order, please!
They must both drive the engine.
- (Laughter)
- If they ever get the chance.
Mr Valentine, we need 10,000
to float our company.
My dear Mr Chesterford,
what is 10,000 between friends?
- Nothing, we're hoping.
- Money is only a symbol. Come on.
Let's drink to your success.
Miss Hampton, dear, set them up.
- You'll finance us?
- I, dear boy? Charming gesture.
But what right have I to exploit
your enterprise for gain?
- I, a foolish old man?
- You certainly won't gain by it.
I, who already have enough
for my simple needs.
This line has been
losing money for years.
It's bound to go on losing money.
There's an honest man.
Thank you, my dear sir.
But for your timely warning, I might
have made a foolish investment.
Come along, Miss Hampton, dear.
Mr Valentine, what do you do in
the morning before this place opens?
I wait impatient for the day to dawn.
Suppose the day dawned
at 13 minutes to nine.
Mr Chesterford, you're a poet,
a dreamer of beautiful dreams.
There is nothing in law to prevent
a railway company opening a bar
in one of its trains
whenever that train is under way.
Give us your backing and we'll run
a bar on the Titfield-Mallingford line
- every morning and afternoon.
- Sundays excepted.
You... You wouldn't tease
an old man, would you?
Mr Weech, you wouldn't joke
about a sacred subject.
I am assured
it will be quite, quite legal.
You can write your own timetable.
My very dear sir,
you can write your own cheque!
Hallelujah!
- (Cheering and laughter)
- Set them up, Miss Hampton!
(Horn honks)
- Morning, Tom.
- Morning, sir.
- Morning.
- Morning, sir.
- Morning, Mr Clegg.
- Morning.
Titfield branch line.
British Railways are prepared to sell.
These people are determined
to run it themselves.
That is their intention.
You will be conducting an official
inquiry at Mallingford next Tuesday.
It's going to be tough.
Bound to be a lot of local opposition.
- There is.
You will ascertain whether or not
such opposition is justified.
(Children cheering)
- You know, Sam, this is serious.
- Scandalous! Gross libel!
Yes, but we are amateurs.
Amateurs?
(indistinct chatter)
- Come on up, Mr Weech.
- I say, Ben. You are a brick!
- Did the guard see you?
- No, I don't think so.
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