This is a story about Thomas' coaches, Annie and Clarabel. They love running backwards and forwards along the branch line with Thomas. But one day, they are given a chance to prove just how useful they can really be ...

 

This book features in the following series: My Thomas Story Library, Thomas And Friends .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2008 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was born in Hampshire in 1911. He grew up close to the railway and was convinced that the steam engines all had different personalities. He used to imagine conversations between them. Later when he was grown up and his son Christopher became ill with measles, Wilbert invented the Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking for more stories and Wilbert began writing them. The first of the railway series was published in 1945. Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before Christopher took over the series.