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- “I've got into some bad habits. But from now on, I'm going to do better.”
- ―Harrison
Training Time Harrison is the fifty-second and final episode of the first season.
Plot
Vee needs a locomotive to pull the royal carriage for the Prince, so Harrison decides to get back to the depot as quickly as possible. En route, Harrison, high in his ego and arrogance, runs through a red light, causing Olwin to come off the rails, and he tells Chatsworth to go in the opposite direction saying that "the line is blocked" but really sending him on a wild goose chase.
Once back at the depot, Harrison takes the empty Royal Coach with Old Puffer Pete teaching him. But Harrison believes, that as he is a chugger - not a trainee - he doesn't need to learn from Old Puffer Pete; so he speeds ahead, much to the annoyance of Old Puffer Pete. Also, once back at the depot again, Chatsworth and Olwin scold Harrison for causing unnecessary problems. Vee is annoyed with Harrison's speedy attitude and arrogance; and along with the problems he caused earlier, Vee gives him two options as punishment - go back to the training yard, or be dismissed from duty of taking the carriage. Harrison reluctantly accepts the order of returning to the training yard, and is temporarily demoted to 'trainee chugger'.
Harrison, knowing that Wilson admires him, shows off around the yard and, as a result, Wilson comes off the rails. Harrison realizes his mistakes, knowing that he was setting a bad example to Wilson all the time. For the rest of the day, Vee revises Harrison on railway rules and warning signs. Then, the following day, Harrison brings in the Royal Coach with the Prince on board, following protocol along the way successfully.
Characters
- Wilson
- Brewster
- Koko
- Dunbar
- Calley
- Old Puffer Pete
- Harrison
- Chatsworth
- Olwin
- Vee
- Prince of Buffertonia (debut; does not speak)
- Emery (cameo)
- Hodge (cameo)
- Zephie (cameo)
- Irving (cameo)
- Girl with a Pink Shirt (cameo)
- Girl with a Green Shirt (cameo)
- Boy with a Blue and Green Shirt (cameo)
- Man with a Yellow Shirt (cameo)
- Boy with a Pale Shirt (cameo)
- The Mic Man (cameo)
Rolling Stock
Locations
- Chuggington
- The Countryside
- The Farm
- Safari Park
- The Depot
- The Ice Cream Factory (mentioned)
- The Market (mentioned)
- Chug Town (mentioned)
- Buffertonia (mentioned)
Cast
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Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the fortieth episode of the first season.
- This marks the final episode for a couple things:
- The final episode of the first season, ending off as the biggest season to date.
- The final episode written by Jimmy Hibbert.
- The final episode to have Sarah Ball and Diane Redmond as producer.
- The final episode to air in 2009.
- Stock footage from Koko and the Tunnel is used.
Goofs
- Olwin's wheels and buffers clip through the tracks in the first scene she appears in.
- Olwin's pipes clip through her side valences on a few occasions throughout the episode.
- Chatsworth's boxcar changes colour between the scenes it appears in.
- When Chatsworth is leaving Harrison alone, some of the background trees clip through him.
- Harrison's passenger car is missing in one shot after he and Pete pass through the crossing.
- One of Wilson's wheels clips through the ground when he derails.
- After Harrison finishes his training, the trainees appear out of thin air to congratulate him. They disappear again in the next shot.
- Because of the use of stock footage, Calley's coupling rods do not move as she backs down to the magnet car.
- Some of the buildings in the background despawn and are replaced with different ones in-between shots of Calley rescuing Wilson.