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THOMAS' FRIEND DUCK likes to be Really Useful and Right on Time. One day, some Troublesome Trucks start pushing and they will not stop, and a station is just ahead! Duck works himself into a lather trying to brake in time, but ends up crashing into the station's barber shop.
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Wilbert Vere Awdry OBE (15 June 1911 - 21 March 1997) was an English Anglican cleric, railway enthusiast and children's author. Better known as the Reverend W. Awdry, he was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the central figure in his acclaimed Railway Series. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Optimist on the run, 1988 / , via Wikimedia Commons.
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