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Barry the Rescue Engine is a mini-series based around Barry in 1985 after he was rescued from the Barry Scrapyard in South Wales, and how he copes on the Island of Sodor after being in that scrapyard for 20 years.

Episodes

When Barry is taken by James on his goods train, the steam locomotive on the flatbed is startled by a sound coming from the other line at Henry's Tunnel. Barry thinks it is the scrapman who wanted him to be scrapped with a cutter's torch. He later calms down only for James to meet an old friend saying that retiring wasn't his first option since he was the North Western Railway's longest-serving manager than Sir Topham Hatt I nor his son, Stephen Topham Hatt.

Barry is ready for his water fill-up at the water tower as the volunteers prepare for his test. When one of them comes over to see him and sees the fill-up, trouble blows ahead when the water isn't coming out of his boiler and could cause a boiler explosion which could kill Sir Charles Topham Hatt and the volunteers if they don't do something to stop this. The situation is dying down when Alice arrives and saves Barry with clean water following that near-boiler explosion at a hundred psi.

Barry is on a test run following the near-boiler explosion at the water tower. Unfortunately, James breaks down with a passenger train and Barry brings him back to the station as a fortunate response. The two engines with Sir Charles Topham Hatt later join together at the train station and James thanks Barry for rescuing him.

When Diesel speaks to Alice about the cutter's torch, she is depressed about Barry too. When the black tender engine pushes some Troublesome Trucks into the sea at Knapford Harbor for calling James "Rusty Red Scrap Iron", Barry has to talk with Alice during her train tour as it starts from Knapford station as agreed by the controllers who made the personal exchange with Barry on the right side instead of the wrong side. This is the final episode of the four part mini-series.

Characters

Characters Introduced

Trivia

  • This miniseries was based upon the cancelled miniseries by Christopher Audrey of the same name. However, much of this was made up by WildNorWester since (aside from the premise of the titular Barry being from the Barry scrapyard) nothing is actually known about the book as it would have existed.
    • According to Christopher, it was cancelled because fans were getting tired of so many new characters being created and publishers wanted more Thomas-centric books (since he is a major character in the books but the main protagonist in the TV series).
  • This is the first mini-series featured in Sodor: The Early Years.
    • However, as outlined in January 2021, this is just the first of many storylines yet to come.

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