Ghost's Of The Railway

Story 1, "Killer Kipper"

Its was a Crisp October evening, and Arthur was at Tidmouth with the other mainline engines, the sheds was all decorated for Halloween, the engines were all talking and laughing, cracking jokes and listening to music on the radio.

Arthur wasn't used to being around other engines a lot, he had bad social anxiety, and that made it hard for him to socialize with engines he didn't know.

"Can we talk about how almost all diesels have terrible personalities?" James said.

"Id have one to if I looked like a tissue box" Gordon laughed and all the other engines laughed along with him, even Arthur.

There was a lot of engines in the shed that Arthur hadn't met in all his years on the railway.

James noticed the Arthur looked nervous and tried to get him into the conversation, he didn't really know the maroon tank engine, but they took pity on him.

"Oi, Arthur- MT? Is it?" He said to Arthur.

Arthur perked up at his name, "hm? Oh, yea, but just Arthur is fine" he replied.

"What do you think about diesels?" James asked.

"Well, some are nice and some of them have an attitude issue and I don't think the works can fix that unfortunately" Arthur said with a smirk as the engines laughed.

"I like this one" Said a Black Q1.

"Well, Bulleid, I would ask you too but I cant ask you to give opinions on your twins" James cracked and the Q1 laughed.

"Well well at least I can handel trucks on a hill" he cracked back.

"HEY THAT WAS ONE TIME" James snapped and looked away turning as red as his paintwork.

"Whatever you want to believe hun" he responeded.

"Is your name bulleid?" Arthur asked him curiously.

The Q1 chucked, "no, James just calls me by my last name a lot, my first names Neville" He said.

"Oh, I'm Arthur, Arthur Spot"

"Neville, Neville Maunsell-Bulleid" Neville said, "nice to meet you."

"You have two last names?" Arthur questioned.

"Yup, I saved a train of troops back in WWII and was considered a "'war hero'" and was named after my builder and designer respectfully" Neville responeded

"Thats actually so cool" said Arthur.

"I'll see you lad, rhe kippers due out here soon and I should get ready, see you all tomorrow morning" Henry said, and puffed out of the sheds.

The engines talked and chattered into late night before they all fell asleep, the next morning Arthur awoke to James and gordon talking about something.

Arthur rolled out and yawned, "ugh, whats happening guys?"

"Henry never returned with the kipper last night" Gordon said.

"He probably just slept at vicorstown thats all" Neville said puffing out.

"Yea, maybe" James said, "but he hasn't done that before, he did it once or twice back in the 30s but never again after that for some reason."

"Well maybe he was just really tired tonight" Neville responded, thats when Percy and Thomas puffed in.

They all looked over at the small tank engines, the two had sad and terrified looks on their faces.

"Whats wrong?" Neville asked.

"I-its- Henry-" Thomas stuttered, thats when the mainline crew realized what was behind Thomas and Percy.